2022 Health Care Heroes: Indiana-based autism therapy center serves thousands
Kim Strunk started Hopebridge Autism Therapy Centers in Kokomo in 2005.
Kim Strunk started Hopebridge Autism Therapy Centers in Kokomo in 2005.
Dr. Don Brown started LifeOmic in 2016. The company’s product, the Precision Health Cloud, is used by IU Health’s Precision Genomics Program to improve molecular tumor diagnostics.
IU Health launched the Hospital at Home program and offered it as an option to stabilized COVID-19 patients in order to open beds for sicker patients.
Philip Low, founder of On Target Laboratories and Purdue University’s presidential scholar for drug discovery, invented Cytalux.
Dr. Lawrence Einhorn is credited for revolutionizing testicular cancer treatment in the 1970s, leading to a 95% cure rate today.
Greg Carter works under the umbrella of harm reduction; much of his research has focused on identifying barriers to HIV screening and creating community-based HIV prevention interventions.
The lack of urgency in addressing high hospital prices in Indiana by the vast majority of not-for-profit hospitals is intolerable.
IU Health has committed to align our pricing with national averages for commercial insurance by Jan. 1, 2025, generating more than $1 billion in savings to patients and payers.
The need is great, and the demographics of this population suggest housing needs will only grow for those able to live independently.
While not all kids will become founders, the entrepreneurial mindset … is an essential element for their contribution in whatever vocation they pursue.
You can have diversity programs to intentionally increase representation without leaving a group of people feeling misused.
Lack of context is the problem with Twitter and any other social media platform that limits the number of characters that can be used.
DePaul University’s board unanimously voted to select Manuel, 54, at a meeting on April 21 but the decision was not announced until Tuesday. The school said it picked Manuel after “an extensive national search.”
The pharmaceutical giant is turning heads with an experimental medicine it claims can help obese patients shed nearly a quarter of their body weight and manage diabetes.
The 13-member body approved by the Legislature in March is tasked with addressing Indiana’s affordable housing shortage.
There are, of course, legitimate reasons for an athlete to transfer, and even diehard Boilermaker fans would have understood if Newman had sought a change of venue.
A new study released Thursday by the Rand Corp. showed that Hoosiers covered by employer health plans paid Indiana hospitals nearly three times—or 292%—of what Medicare would have paid for the same procedures.
A pair of historic buildings along 116th Street near Nickel Plate Station are being saved, but that won’t be the case for two other old buildings in the same block that were determined to be “beyond repair.”
We suggest a more comprehensive approach to making Indiana the best place in the U.S. to do business. That means more intense focus on why workers would want to be here, how we can keep more college grads in the state, and how to encourage greener energy sources.
Sustainably addressing the problems of rising prices and declining quality requires reforms that empower patients and doctors, improve price transparency and eliminate the perverse incentives of our current health insurance system that drive up costs and limit care.