With the future of a state-owned downtown parking lot in limbo, Indiana is looking to a smaller space on the west side of the capitol as the site of a public plaza to commemorate the 2016 bicentennial.
Obamacare's community rating rules would give 25-percent-off coupons to boomers while sticking millennials with a 75-percent surcharge, according to recent data from employer health plans.
A grassroots, church-based organization is trying to stir up voter interest in the city’s plan for a new criminal justice complex and questioning the need to expand jail capacity.
The Indianapolis-based manufacturer had sales of $553 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, a 19-percent increase over the same period of 2013. Profit rose to $68.8 million, up from $44.5 million.
Lilly CEO John Lechleiter kicked off the company’s quarterly conference call with investors and analysts by declaring an end to the “unprecedented challenge” that Lilly lived through the past four years.
As general counsel for KAR Auction Services—which now owns Adesa and other automotive entities—Becca Polak runs a legal department that includes 14 lawyers and an equal number of support staff for a 12,000-employee company with $4 billion in annual revenue.
Mary Beth Claus, senior vice president and general counsel of Indiana University Health, is responsible for all legal and compliance matters for IU Health’s system of 20 hospitals and other health care facilities.
Hendricks Regional Health is taking a revolutionary step—at least for the health care industry—by applying the retailer’s playbook. Health care executives say more hospital systems are likely to follow suit in the future.
Herff Jones might be on the verge of a sale for as much as $1 billion. The 94-year-old maker of class rings and yearbooks, quietly renamed Varsity Brands Inc. in June, has hired the investment banking firm Jefferies to explore a sale, unidentified sources told Reuters.
In the Oct. 6 IBJ, Greg Morris extolled the virtues of Nashville, Tennessee, and the city’s thorough Music City branding effort. Morris encouraged Indy to develop our brand by focusing on who and what we already are.
The Charles W. Brown Planetarium was made possible by a gift from Indianapolis businessman Charles Brown, who built a small empire of fast-food franchises that he sold last year.
Indianapolis has a higher percentage of women sports fans than many of the nation's largest and most sports rabid cities. There's an especially strong following for the NFL, NBA, NASCAR and college hoops.
The Ruth Lilly Health Education Center has hosted countless school field trips and more than 2 million visitors since it opened in 1989. But it has struggled financially in recent years.
Early third-quarter numbers suggest that Obamacare, combined with the lingering effects of the Great Recession, is giving an unusual lift to both hospitals and insurers.
The Indiana University School of Medicine has hired Dr. Richard Zellars as professor and chairman of radiation oncology. Zellars, a breast cancer researcher, will come to IU in January from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He previously was on the faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Zellars earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Amanda Houchens, a family physician, has joined Franciscan Physician Network’s Carmel Family Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and her undergraduate degrees in biology and Spanish at IU.
Dr. Jerome Cordova, an internist, has joined Franciscan Physician Network’s Indiana Heart Physicians as a hospitalist, where he will treat patients staying as inpatients in one of Franciscan’s Indianapolis-area hospitals. Cordova earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a medical degree at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque.
Dr. Ryan Jaggers joined Methodist Sports Medicine in Avon. Jaggers earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees from Indiana University.
