April 6, 2013
AnnJeanette ColwellThe recent flurry of big announcements portends well.
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March 1, 2013
J.K. WallThe sequestration plan kicking in Friday will chop Medicare payments to hospitals, doctors and nursing homes by 2 percent,
beginning April 1. One study estimates that the cuts could result in 10,000-plus job losses in Indiana alone.
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October 20, 2012
Chris O'MalleyAn initiative is matching tech entrepreneurs with hospital officials in the hope of solving health care problems.
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July 23, 2012
J.K. WallA little extra Medicare money will flow to suburban hospitals in the Indianapolis area, based on recent patient satisfaction
scores. But hospitals in the core of Indianapolis—and hospitals that do significant amounts of teaching medical students—may
take a hit.
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July 21, 2012
J.K. WallHospital system's health insurance unit has IT infrastructure that will allow physicians to participate in Medicare's shared
savings program.
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July 9, 2012
J.K. WallIndiana University Health, as well as a partnership of Franciscan Alliance and American Health Network, have formed accountable
care organizations that won the blessing of the federal Medicare Shared Savings program.
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May 26, 2012
J.K. WallAs St. Vincent Health has nearly doubled the number of physicians it employs over the past two years, the losses on those
practices have mounted. And the same thing is happening at all the major Indianapolis hospital systems, as all have spent
the past four years aggressively acquiring physician practices.
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May 12, 2012
Myth prevents policymakers from attacking real problem of distributing funding.
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April 14, 2012
Cory SchoutenThere is a mix of sadness, grief and anger in Beech Grove, as Franciscan Alliance moves the last of its inpatient and emergency
operations from its nearly 100-year-old Beech Grove hospital to the new Franciscan St. Francis facility at Stop 11 Road and
Emerson Avenue.
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March 17, 2012
Scott OlsonPhysician liaisons are becoming key in recruiting efforts.
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March 5, 2012
J.K. WallFranciscan St. Francis Health said its plans to build an emergency room and physician office building in Greenwood are on
hold due to uncertainty over the effects of health care reform.
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February 27, 2012
J.K. WallFranciscan St. Francis Health announced five years ago that it would consolidate its Beech Grove operations into an expanded
hospital seven miles south, near Interstate 65 and Emerson Avenue. The last inpatient department to close at Beech Grove will
be its emergency room, on March 16.
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December 19, 2011
J.K. WallFranciscan Alliance’s Indianapolis-area hospitals, along with more than 700 physicians, have been named one of the nation’s
first 32 accountable care organizations.
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August 15, 2011
J.K. WallIU Health Morgan Hospital sued Dr. Dianna Boyer on Aug. 3 to stop her from moving her practice to a facility Franciscan St.
Francis Health is building in Martinsville.
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June 22, 2011
J.K. WallCitizens Action Coalition Education Fund and Indiana Legal Services Inc. claim that “a good number” of Indianapolis
south-side residents who should have qualified for reduced or waived bills at St. Francis were instead steered into payments
plans.
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June 4, 2011
IBJ StaffOver the last three years, all major hospitals in Indianapolis have been active in hiring physicians. Competition was especially
intense for cardiologists.
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May 23, 2011
J.K. WallBob Brody, CEO of Franciscan St. Francis Health, which operates three hospitals in central Indiana as part
of the 13-hospital Franciscan Alliance system, discussed the rationale for its decision to take control of Visiting Nurse
Service Inc.
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May 19, 2011
J.K. WallVisiting Nurse Service Inc., a 200-employee agency based in Indianapolis, will operate under the umbrella of Franciscan St.
Francis Health, the organizations announced Thursday.
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May 14, 2011
Katie MaurerSome health care system are finally allowing online scheduling.
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March 30, 2011
IBJ StaffThe Mishawaka-based Franciscan Alliance plans to spend $8.4 million to open an administrative center in Greenwood, creating
84 jobs in the next four years.
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March 26, 2011
J.K. WallIt was a good but not great year financially for three of the four largest hospital systems operating in the Indianapolis
area last year—and hospital analysts are expecting several head winds to continue.
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February 23, 2011
J.K. WallFranciscan Alliance will spend more than $100 million over the next two years to install a common electronic medical record
system at its 13 hospitals and more than 165 physician practices. It’s a sign of the growth of the health information
technology industry in Indiana, which a new BioCrossroads report says generates $200 million a year in sales and is growing
at 8 percent annually.
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February 16, 2011
J.K. WallChanges unleashed by health reform are pushing Franciscan St. Francis Health’s expansion into Hamilton County—in
addition to the obvious pull of the area’s well-heeled population.
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February 14, 2011
IBJ StaffFranciscan St. Francis Health plans to open a short-stay medical center in Carmel, creating 76 jobs by 2015, the health system
announced Monday morning.
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December 1, 2010
J.K. WallIt doesn’t take a genius to figure out why St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers is going to build a new ER and
medical office complex near Greenwood: The area has been growing over the past decade 10 times faster than the city of Indianapolis.
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My favorite magician is Mickey in Fantasia.
I ate at a Steak n Shake a couple of weeks ago and was amused to see a poster of him (and a lineup of employees) just inside the entrance. You don't see that at other chains -- OK maybe Dave the Wendy's guy, but that was when he was also in their TV ads.
Well he wasn't a magician in the latest movie, but up in Fort Wayne he was featured on Happy the Hobo when I was a kid and I LOVED THE SHOW!
Shake Shack>Steak n' Shake
I really enjoyed the Hollywood Bar and Film works, they had good food and decent prices I understand that parking was one of the reasons for its closing. If other major events were going downtown parking was expensive if not impossible. Hope the new cinema bar will have parking.