New firm focuses on innovations, including ‘ear in a dish’
In a Q&A, Monon Bioventures CEO Joe Trebley talks about the goals and ambitions of his one-year-old firm.
John Russell
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Health coalition to push for big tax increase on cigarettes
A broad-based alliance of health and business groups warns that medical costs will keep soaring unless state leaders take steps to promote healthy living, including new restrictions and higher taxes on cigarettes.
IU Research and Technology Corp. moves from canal to campus
A center that helps Indiana University researchers commercialize their discoveries has moved its operations to be closer to faculty, industry and research partners.
IU Health Plans quits Obamacare exchange, citing ‘heightened financial uncertainty’
The move combined with other insurer defections will leave Hoosiers with just five Obamacare marketplace options.
IU School of Dentistry moves ahead on $21M expansion
It’s the first significant addition in four decades to the 136-year-old institution, the only dental school in Indiana.
State seeking input on IPL’s $100M plan to upgrade Petersburg plant
The utility says the move would allow it to keep burning coal at the Pike County plant and meet strict environmental regulations for sulfur dioxide and coal ash.
The Interview Issue: Jeff Harrison
The decisions Jeff Harrison makes affect 400,000 customers in central Indiana—when they turn on their kitchen faucets, flush their toilets, heat their homes with natural gas, or pay their utility bills.
The Interview Issue: Dave Ricks
On Jan. 1, Dave Ricks becomes CEO of drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. as it tries to launch new products after a tough stretch of patent expirations. To prepare, Ricks has spent a lot of time with outgoing CEO John Lechleiter “learning from the master.”
Indiana hospitals seeing fewer readmissions
A new government report shows that readmissions at Indiana hospitals dipped by 7.5 percent over a five-year period. Nationally, readmission rates fell by 8 percent over the same period.
Super-sized laundry co-op serves 55 hospitals, 700 clinics
Just two years after United Hospital Services pushed into Kokomo by merging with North Central Indiana Linen Service, the co-op is planning its next move—this time into northwest Indiana.
Noblesville travel nursing firm bought by Denver company
A company founded in 1999 with $30,000 and a home computer grew into a multimillion-dollar business. Now it will be part of a Denver health staffing company.
Shortage of residency slots plugs doctor pipeline
A new state board is trying to grapple with how to handle the big shortage in medical residencies, which will grow even worse as the state graduates more and more doctors.
Fairbanks study: Indiana should raise cigarette tax, smoking age
The study said more than 11,000 Hoosiers die prematurely each year from smoking and another 1,400 die as a result of second-hand smoke. Twenty-three percent of Indiana adults smoke, higher than the U.S. median of 18 percent.
Franciscan to remove saints’ names from a dozen hospitals
In a move to create a stronger identity, Franciscan Alliance will become Franciscan Health, and will stop using the names of St. Francis, St. James, St. Anthony and other familiar saints at its hospitals, the company announced Tuesday.
Longtime attorney named to fill open IURC position
Gov. Mike Pence on Friday named Sarah Freeman as a commissioner on the five-member Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.
Doctors in the dock, answering for misconduct
Sexual assault, burglary, drug trafficking: all in a day’s work for the Indiana Medical Licensing Board.
Fed rules make tiny hospitals profitable
St. Vincent Health announced last month it would build eight micro-hospitals—or “emergency hospitals,” as the organization calls them. Other area hospitals are watching the experiment.
IPL targets 25 city locations for new streetlights
Indianapolis plans to install another 25 streetlights by the end of the year, continuing Mayor Joe Hogsett’s push to light up neighborhoods with higher accident and crime rates.
Humble medical office buildings selling for kingly sums
The latest local example of the sizzling market is the three-story Community Health Pavilion, which sold last week for $286 a square foot—far more than the per-square-foot price in two recent office complex transactions.
IU Health anesthesiologist sues to get job back, claims gender discrimination
Dr. Sandra Kinsella, a top anesthesiologist in Indiana University Health’s organ transplant program, claims she was let go in retaliation for her complaints.