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September 8, 2014

-Reynolds Construction Group Inc. is scheduled to start a 7,200-square-foot interior renovation for Cornerstone Environmental Health and Safety at 880 Lennox Court, Zionsville.

-Mattingly Construction has completed construction of a 1,809-square-foot build-out for PROFYLE Boutique at Ironworks, 2727 E. 86th St., No. 125.

-Mattingly Construction has started construction of a 3,921-square-foot building for Martin Dentistry at 1724 Broad Ripple Ave.

-Mattingly Construction has completed a 1,200-square-foot build-out for Heritage Christian High School commons area at 6401 E. 75th St.

Katelyn Becht, a nurse practitioner, has joined St. Vincent Medical Group in Carmel. Becht received a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and a master’s degree in nursing administration from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion.

Dr. Andrew Miller has joined Eskenazi Health Midtown Community Mental Health as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He earned his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He received a bachelor's degree in biology from IU-Bloomington.

Dr. Peter Hogg, an orthopedic surgeon, has joined Franciscan Physician Network Orthopedic Specialists. He earned his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from DePauw University.

Andrea Pfeifle, a physical therapist, has been named the first assistant dean and director of the Indiana University Center for Interprofessional Health Education and Practice. The center was created to prepare future health care providers to deliver team-based care. Pfeifle comes to IU from the University of Kentucky, where she held a similar position. She earned a doctorate in education from the University of Kentucky.

State orders recycler to clean up its mess

August 12, 2013

In May, state inspectors visited the abandoned east-side site and found electronic waste they said could threaten both human and environmental health.

People

July 22, 2013

Tennessee-based Centerstone promoted Meagan Terlep to assistant director of children and family services for its mental health operations across southern Indiana. Terlep joined Centerstone in 2009. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Franklin College and a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Indianapolis.

Mark Guinan, chief financial officer of Hill-Rom Holdings Inc., has resigned to become the CFO of New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics Inc. Hill-Rom, a Batesville-based maker of hospital beds and equipment, has launched a search for Guinan’s replacement. Until then, Michael Macek, Hill-Rom's treasurer, will act as interim CFO.

Teen arrested after ambulance theft

July 19, 2013

Indianapolis police arrested a 16-year-old male early Friday after he allegedly stole an ambulance parked near St. Francis Hospital South. The teen, who is from Evansville, took the ambulance about 3 a.m. to avoid going to a mental health facility at St. Francis. He was pulled over near New York Street and Chester Avenue about an hour later.

People

February 4, 2013

Suzanne Clifford has been named executive vice president of behavioral health at Community Health Network, beginning Feb. 25. She replaces Eric Crouse, who is retiring after nearly 34 years at Community. Clifford most recently has led Inspiring Transformations Inc., an Indianapolis-based consulting firm she founded that focused on the delivery of mental health and substance abuse care. Before that, Clifford was director of the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction, and also served stints at Eli Lilly and Co. and General Motors Corp. She holds a bachelor’s in industrial and systems engineering from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Indiana University.

St. Vincent Health has appointed Dr. Craig Wilson chief medical officer of St. Vincent Medical Center Northeast, which is adding 50 inpatient beds and will change its name to St. Vincent Fishers Hospital on April 8. Wilson will remain executive director of hospitalist services at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital. Wilson completed his medical degree at the University of Queensland, Australia.

The Indiana Medical Device Manufacturers Council appointed Peggy Welch as its executive director, effective immediately. Welch was a Democratic state legislator from Bloomington for 14 years and works part time as an oncology nurse at the Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital.

Dr. Nahid Shahrooz has joined the newly established Franciscan Physician Network Dermatology Specialists. Formerly associated with Shahrooz Dermatology and the Indianapolis Institute for Plastic Surgery, she specializes in the surgical removal of skin tumors, cancers and lesions. Shahrooz earned her medical degree at Mashad Medical School in Iran.

Dr. Janice Bilby has joined Franciscan Physician Network Greenwood Parke Family Medicine. Bilby received her undergraduate degree in biology from Ball State University and her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Company news

January 28, 2013

The Franciscan Alliance hospital system has signed a deal with Philadelphia-based health insurer Cigna Corp. to offer an accountable care plan to Cigna’s customers in the Indianapolis area. Mishawaka-based Franciscan will use the same accountable care organization it formed in 2011 to work with the federal Medicare program. That organization includes Franciscan hospitals in Carmel, Indianapolis and Mooresville, as well as 600 physicians in central Indiana. Franciscan and Cigna will rely heavily on case managers, who will help patients, especially those with chronic diseases, navigate the health system. The case managers will use Cigna data to identify patients in need of such attention and will in some cases refer patients to Cigna’s health management and wellness programs.

Warsaw-based DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. kept selling an artificial hip implant even after the doctors it paid as consultants on the product had begun abandoning it and after the product had failed an internal test, according to internal company documents disclosed in a legal case and summarized by The New York Times. DePuy, a subsidiary of New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson, recalled the troubled hip implant, called the Articular Surface Replacement, or ASR, in 2010. The company has been the target of 10,000 lawsuits filed by patients who had to receive a second hip implant after the ASR failed. The device has been prone to shedding large amounts of metallic debris inside patients. DePuy’s own internal estimates show they expected the ASR to fail in 40 percent of patients within five years of their hip-implant surgery.

Greenwood-based Elona Biotechnologies Inc., which has been trying to bring a generic version of insulin to market, is running out of cash and struggling to find new investors. The company told Greenwood officials of its financial troubles earlier this month, which prompted the Greenwood Redevelopment Commission to vote Jan. 17 to declare Elona in default on $8.4 million of economic development incentives the city gave the company in 2010. Wendy Brewer, an attorney for the Greenwood Redevelopment Commission, said one potential investor in Elona wants the company’s exposure under the incentive programs altered as a condition of investing in Elona. “We’re continuing to talk to them,” Brewer said, adding that the company’s finances dictate that a decision be made in a couple of weeks. Greenwood loaned $6.4 million to help Elona build a 50,000-square-foot, $28 million insulin-production plant in Greenwood and hire 70 workers. The city also gave Elona $1.5 million to help it win approval for its insulin from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and $500,000 for equipment. So far, Brewer said, Elona has made no progress on its jobs commitments. Elona, founded by a former Eli Lilly and Co. scientist, has made its business doing contract drug manufacturing for other firms. But its growth plans hinged on making a generic version of insulin, something that was not allowed in the United States until the 2010 passage of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act. That law called for a pathway for “biosimilar” versions of biotech drugs, including insulin. As it stands now, a drug such as Lilly’s Humulin insulin faces no generic competition even though its patent expired in 2001. Nearly a year ago, the FDA issued draft guidance on “biosimilar” drugs that indicated it would require additional clinical trials of a biosimilar drug. That means a company like Elona would have to spend significant money to test its drug in patients before the FDA would declare it similar to an existing insulin. Calls to Elona founders Ron and Donna Zimmerman were not returned Tuesday morning.

WellPoint Inc. ended the year on a high note, posting fourth-quarter sales and profit that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. The Indianapolis-based health insurer earned $464 million, or $1.51 per share, in the three months ended Dec. 31, a 38-percent leap from the same quarter a year earlier. Excluding investment gains and one-time charges, WellPoint would have earned $1.03 per share. On that basis, analysts were expecting 95 cents per share. Membership in WellPoint’s health plans shot up nearly 8 percent in the fourth quarter to more than 36 million nationwide. That represented a net gain of more than 2.6 million customers. The increase was entirely attributable to WellPoint’s $4.9 billion acquisition of Virginia-based Amerigroup Corp., which added 2.7 million members in Medicaid plans. But the Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer on Wednesday gave analysts a conservative forecast for 2013, due in part to a daunting list of expenses it could face. WellPoint will spend roughly $300 million this year preparing for coverage expansions under the health care overhaul coverage and changes to its Medicare Advantage business. The insurer also expects to spend as much as $125 million integrating Amerigroup into its business, and it says it could take hits from flu claims, possible cuts to Medicare funding and an increase in health care use. Counting those expenses, WellPoint expects to earn at least $7.60 per share in 2013 compared to the $8.18 per share it earned last year.

St. Vincent Health will add air medical service at Rush Memorial Hospital in Rushville. The new StatFlight helicopter base, scheduled to open in late April or early May, will be St. Vincent's fourth helicopter base in Indiana. The others are located in Anderson, Danville, North Vernon and West Lafayette. St. Vincent contracts with PHI Air Medical LLC to operate its StatFlight air medical service.

The Community Health Network hospital system has created a new partnership with Indianapolis-based Lutheran Child and Family Services to provide treatment for children who have experienced trauma and are dealing with behavioral challenges. Indianapolis-based Community will help Lutheran manage the behavioral health services for children and adolescents at Lutherwood, a youth residential treatment facility, and Trinity House, a transitional group home for young men. The collaboration also will include community-based programs previously managed separately under Indianapolis-based Gallahue Community Mental Health Center and Lutheran. Lutheran will continue to offer spiritual care programs of its own for children and their families. Community serves more than 25,000 behavioral health patients each year. Its behavioral health unit employs more than 600 physicians, psychologists, advance practice nurses, psychiatric nurses, therapists, counselors, life skills specialists and care managers.

Company news

November 26, 2012

NoviaCare Clinics LLC, which operates on-site clinics for employers, is gradually pitching a new constellation of services, which it calls Total Patient Experience, to its 85 clients. The effort is one of a few initiatives to get employers to push deeper to address the causes of their workers’ health problems. Indianapolis-based NoviaCare is negotiating contracts with financial counselors, substance abuse counselors, mental health counselors and physical therapists who can be called in to its employer clinics to help address the underlying causes of patients’ health issues. So far, NoviaCare has signed up Batesville Tool & Dye and Hillenbrand Inc. to use the physical therapy portion of its service. NoviaCare hopes employers come to embrace its entire suite of services down the road.

The number of serious medical errors at hospitals and nursing homes fell to 100 last year from 107 in 2010, according to the Indiana State Health Department's 2011 Medical Errors report. According to a report by WTHR-TV Channel 13, the most common errors were severe bed sores, followed by surgery on the wrong body part, and foreign objects left after surgery. Indiana University Health’s three downtown hospitals reported 14 errors, the highest number in the state. But those hospitals also see more patients than any other in the report. Nearly a third of the state's hospitals reported at least one error.

Eli Lilly and Co. gave $12.4 million to the United Way, a slight uptick from its United Way gift from last year. The donation represents the contributions of Lilly’s U.S. employees and retirees, plus a matching gift from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation. The funds will help support the United Way of Central Indiana as well as other local United Way chapters around the country. Also, the Lilly Foundation gave $200,000 to the American Red Cross to provide disaster relief to victims of superstorm Sandy.

Company news

October 22, 2012

Indianapolis-based Mainstreet Property Group said it will spend $60 million to develop senior care communities in Avon, Crawfordsville, Kokomo and the Castlelton area of Indianapolis. The four campuses will include skilled care and assisted living facilities for both short- and long-term patients. All are set to be completed in the third or fourth quarter of 2013, and will collectively employ more than 400 people once they open. The Avon and Crawfordsville communities are part of Mainstreet’s previously announced joint venture with Des Moines-based LCS, a leading provider of senior lifestyle products and services. Mainstreet has added $200 million in new development assets since January 2010.

The Indiana University School of Medicine and the new IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health have received a $1.46 million federal grant to create a joint doctor of medicine and master of public health program. The funding will come over five years from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The five-year program will provide medical students with training in environmental health, infectious disease control, disease prevention and health promotion, epidemiological studies and injury control. The first students will enroll in fall of 2013. Also, IU medical school will use some of the federal funding to integrate public health content and experiences into the primary care curriculum that all IU medical students take.

New York-based Aspen Dental Management, which operates 29 dental clinics in Indiana, has been sued for operating those clinics illegally, according to the Associated Press. A federal lawsuit filed in New York claims Aspen Dental and Leonard Green and Partners, the private-equity firm that controls Aspen, are violating laws that require clinics to be owned by dentists who perform procedures onsite. Court papers say Aspen's "so-called 'Practice Owners' are nothing more than de facto employees and/or independent contractors" of the company, which controls its 358 clinics' marketing, hiring, training and bookkeeping. Aspen says it provides management services and doesn't control clinical care. A spokeswoman says the accusations in the filing are "entirely without merit." A message left with Los Angeles-based LGP wasn't initially returned. Aspen operates 29 dental offices in Indiana, including 10 in the Indianapolis area, according to its website.

People

September 17, 2012

Dr. Wafic ElMasri, a gynecologic oncologist, has been hired by Community Physician Network, a division of Indianapolis-based hospital system Community Health Network. ElMasri, a native of Beirut, Lebanon, did his medical training at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. He previously held jobs as a professor in the OB/GYN department at Texas Tech University and as a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute. His office is in Castleton.

Dr. Peter Schilt, an ear, nose and throat specialist, also was hired by Community Physician Network. Schilt, a native of Carmel, did his medical training at the Indiana University School of Medicine. His office is in Noblesville.

Fort Wayne-based NoMoreClipboard hired Tom Penno as vice president of channel management, overseeing relationships with the company’s sales and distribution partners. NoMoreClipboard offers Web-based personal health record systems to patients and employers. Penno was most recently chief operating officer at the Indianapolis-based Indiana Health Information Exchange.

Dr. Timothy Shoemaker, an endocrinologist, has established a practice with Franciscan Physician Network Diabetes & Endocrinology Specialists in Indianapolis, which is part of the Franciscan St. Francis Health hospital system. Shoemaker earned his medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Christine Liedtke, a psychologist, has joined the Carmel office of Aspire Indiana, which provides therapy, recovery and employment services to people with mental health disorders or addictions. She specializes in treating children and families. Liedtke graduated in 2009 from the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University in Washington, D.C.

Company news

June 25, 2012

The Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute Inc. won a $7.8 million award from the federal government to expand a mental health program for seniors throughout Marion County. A pilot of the program at Wishard Memorial Hospital was shown to reduce participating patients’ emergency room visits 45 percent and hospitalizations 54 percent. The program uses home visits, phone calls and e-mails—both to patients and to their family members—to cut out dangerous medications and daily stressors and to boost brain and physical exercise. The new funding, awarded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will expand the program to more than 2,000 Medicare patients at 11 community health centers operated by Wishard.

Anderson-based Saint John’s Health System announced a name change and a new $27 million surgery department to its hospital. Beginning Jan. 1, Saint John’s will be called St. Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital. The hospital system has for nearly a decade been part of the Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health network of hospitals, which is a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Ascension Health. Hospital leaders said the new name will better reflect that the hospital serves patients from a wider area, which extends beyond Anderson and Madison County. The regional expansion is driving the need for more operating space. So the new surgery department will include at least nine operating suites, which Saint John’s plans to use to bring in newer technology and recruit more physicians.

St. Catherine Regional Hospital of Indiana LLC near Louisville has filed for bankruptcy protection and plans to sell the hospital as an ongoing operation. The 96-bed hospital has $8.3 million in unpaid debts, but less than $1 million in assets. In the 12 months ended in April, the hospital had an operating loss of nearly $1.3 million, according to court filings. According to the News and Tribune of Jeffersonville, St. Catherine is the second hospital in Clark County to declare file for bankruptcy protection recently. Kentuckiana Medical Center filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2010, but recently announced it has secured $40 million in funding that will bring it out of bankruptcy. St. Catherine has $40 million in annual patient revenue and employs 284 people.

Evansville-based Welborn Health Plans announced last week it would exit the Indiana and Kentucky health insurance markets by year’s end, and recommended that its employer customers shift to Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Welborn said it is exiting the business because changes in health insurance would require significant investments in its staff and systems to maintain a high level of customer service. Welborn insures 30,000 people through its employer clients. The two insurers signed an agreement to help Welborn customers transition smoothly.

The University of Notre Dame received $5 million to fund adult stem cell research from alumnus Michael Gallagher and his wife, Elizabeth, who live in Denver. The gift will fund three new endowed professorships in adult and other non-embryonic forms of stem cell research. Notre Dame already has built a team of researchers focused on adult stem cell research, which it supports over embryonic stem cell research—sparking controversy because the Catholic Church views the destruction of an embryo as destruction of a human life.

Home Health Depot Inc., which ranked as the fifth-fastest-growing company in Indianapolies last year, tacked on even more girth this month by acquiring Fort Wayne-based Medical Mobility LLC. The retailer sells durable medical supplies with a focus on complex rehabilitation equipment. That store will now be consolidated with Home Health Depot’s existing Fort Wayne store. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is Home Health Depot’s third acquisition this year. In February, Home Health Depot acquired a majority interest in Advanced Rehab Technologies LLC, the largest provider of complex rehabilitation equipment in Iowa. And in April, Home Health Depot acquired the assets of RCS Management Corp.’s in-home respiratory and sleep therapy business.

Blueprint: Churches, charities shouldn’t feed the homeless

November 17, 2011

“Blueprint 2” calls on well-meaning church and charity groups to stop delivering food directly to homeless camps. Professional outreach teams report that this enables people who may have addictions or mental health problems to continue living outside.

People

April 15, 2011

Indianapolis-based Krieg DeVault LLP hired Jason D. Schultz as an associate in its health care practice, working from the firm’s office in Mishawaka. Schultz focuses on transactions and compliance for hospitals, physician groups, mental health facilities, radiology facilities and medical device manufacturers. He previously worked for Indianapolis-based Baker & Daniels LLP.

Indiana University Health named Dr. Douglas Schwartzentruber medical director of cancer services and associate director for clinical affairs at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis. Schwartzentruber, a surgical oncologist, most recently was medical director of cancer care at IU Health’s hospital in Goshen. Last year he was named to Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world for his research showing potential for a vaccine therapy to treat cancer. He is a graduate of the IU School of Medicine and a former research investigator at the National Cancer Institute.

IU Health hired James G. Terwilliger as vice president of cancer services for its statewide network of hospitals. Most recently, Terwilliger served as executive vice president of cancer centers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Terwilliger holds a bachelors degree from Boston University and a masters of public health from the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Indiana Health Information Exchange named Jim Hill vice president of sales. Previously, Hill was CEO of his own software company, Achievant, which provided human capital-management services. Hill holds a bachelor's degree from IU and an MBA in marketing from Butler University.

Company news

March 15, 2011

Republicans in the state Legislature are advancing a budget that would carve $7 million a year from the Indiana Medicaid plan by creating a list of preferred mental health drugs based at least partly on rebates negotiated with drug manufacturers, according to the Associated Press. Indiana is one of only nine states that does not have such a list. But groups representing doctors and patients say the money-saving could be eaten up if patients suffering from mental illnesses are unable to get the drugs they need, possibly leading to expensive hospital stays or even run-ins with police. Medicaid enrolls more than 1 million low-income Hoosiers in such programs as Hoosier Healthwise for children and pregnant woman, the Healthy Indiana Plan for uninsured, and Care Select for the disabled. The provision in the budget bill would require doctors to seek prior authorization from Medicaid to prescribe drugs not on the authorized list. However, psychiatrists would not need prior authorizations.

Elanco, the animal health division of Eli Lilly and Co., has agreed to acquire Jannsen Animal Health, a subsidiary of New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson, pending regulatory approval. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. But Elanco, based in Greenfield, would acquire about 50 animal health products that Janssen sells in Europe, mostly focused on pigs, poultry and pets. Elanco also would bring on an unspecified number of Janssen’s employees. Elanco currently employs 2,300 people in more than 40 countries. Lilly has been trying to grow its animal health business through acquisitions in order to build up revenue expected to be lost late this year when its best-selling human drug Zyprexa faces competition from cheaper generic copies. They will sap most of Zyprexa’s $5 billion a year in sales. Last year, Elanco pulled in revenue of nearly $1.4 billion, up 15 percent from the previous year. Elanco’s drugs are mainly for pigs, poultry, cows and pets.

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December 23, 2010

Centerstone of Indiana, a Columbus, Ind.-based provider of mental health care, named Suzanne Koesel its new CEO as of Jan. 1. She will replace Bob Williams, who is taking the new role of chief strategy officer to focus on responding to health care reform and other changes affecting the organization. Centerstone of Indiana, which has nearly 800 employees in more than 60 facilities across 17 central southern Indiana counties, serves more than 20,000 individuals and families each year. Koesel has been Centerstone of Indiana’s chief operating officer. She holds degrees in social work from Indiana University and Washington University. Centerstone of Indiana is a subsidiary of Tennessee-based Centerstone of America.

Bloomington-based Cook Medical Inc. promoted Rob Dorocke to vice president of global e-communications. Dorocke, an Indiana University graduate, joined the Cook organization in 1997.

Judge delays mother’s trial

November 10, 2010

A Marion County judge has delayed the trial of a mother who locked her children in a closet, resulting in their deaths. Ebyan Farah was ordered to seek mental health treatment after two doctors determined she is not stable enough to help her lawyers with her defense. The trial was to have started Nov. 29. The Somali immigrant is charged in the Sept. 19 deaths of her daughter Zakariya, 3, and son Zuhur, 5, who were locked in a bedroom closet for more than 10 hours with three other siblings.

Company news

October 12, 2010

There’s a leadership change in progress at Prosolia Inc., an Indianapolis company launched out of Purdue University in 2004. Veteran life sciences entrepreneur Peter Kissinger has stepped down as interim CEO and will be replaced by Prosolia’s research director, Justin Wiseman. Wiseman also will fill the role of president, which was vacated by the recent departure of Kevin Boscacci. The company said Boscacci, who helped launched Prosolia as an MBA student at Purdue, left “to pursue other opportunities.” Prosolia’s technology helps measure mass and therefore identify large, complex molecules for pharmaceutical and other industries.

California-based life sciences firm Beckman Coulter Inc. is planning its third local expansion since 2007, investing $18.2 million in its Indianapolis operation and adding as many as 95 jobs here in the next three years. Beckman Coulter, which makes biomedical testing equipment, plans to begin hiring manufacturing associates immediately for its facilities at 5355 W. 76th St. and 5550 Lakeview Parkway. It also will add employees in field service, engineering and general business roles.

Purdue University and Bloomington-based Cook Biotech Inc. prevailed in a European patent dispute over a tissue graft. Denmark-based ScanVet, which distributes the Acell Vet graft, has now run out of time to appeal previous decisions in favor of Purdue by the Danish patent office and patent appeals board. The patent lies behind some of the Cook Biotech products manufactured at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette. The grafts are used to heal wounds and as implants in surgical procedures.

Centerstone Research Institute in Bloomington won a four-year, $2 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The grant will fund improved health care services for 250 adults who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness by expanding primary health care and Centerstone of Indiana’s Bloomington clinic. The project is designed to give individuals who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness broader access to a team of primary care doctors and nurses, as well as mental health staff.

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October 5, 2010

Dr. John Cummings has been named medical director of neurosurgery for Community Health Network. Cummings, a neurosurgeon at Community for more than 20 years, did his training at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

The IU Medical Group added two internists. Dr. Rebecca Lindberg earned her medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed her residency at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Laura Nelson did her medical training and residency at the IU medical school.

Forethought Financial Group Inc. named Ronald Ziegler chief actuary. He will oversee product development, financial reporting, and risk management at the Indianapolis-based life insurance company. Prior to joining Forethought, Ziegler spent 22 years at Transamerica/AEGON Insurance Group.

Dr. Jeffrey Kellams was installed as the 137th president of the Indianapolis Medical Society on Tuesday. He is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the IU School of Medicine, chief of psychiatric services at Wishard Health Services and medical director of the Midtown Mental Health Center in Indianapolis.

Dr. Tracy Price has joined Central Indiana Cancer Centers, providing radiation oncology services at its Fishers, Greenfield and Greenwood locations. Price did her medical training at the IU School of Medicine.

Dr. Eriko Onishi has joined St. Vincent Hospice to lead its effort to set up electronic medical records for physicians. Dr. Onishi, a native of Japan, is an internist specializing in terminal cancer. She previously served as a hospice medical director in Columbus, Ind.

Company news

September 28, 2010

Indianapolis-based Adult and Child Center won $2 million from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to improve access to primary care for Americans with serious mental illnesses. Such patients die, on average, 25 years earlier than those without such conditions, according to a 2006 report by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. During the four-year project, Adult and Child will have a primary-care physician and nurse care coordinator available to patients at its mental health center. The medical staff will try to address patients with mental illnesses who also suffer from chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

A $1.9 million federal stimulus grant will enable the Indiana University School of Medicine's department of family medicine to add two residents a year in the Lafayette area. IU’s family medicine residency program currently accepts 10 doctors annually for post-med-school training as family physicians. The grant will enable the program to add two residency slots in collaboration with Clarian Arnett Health, St. Elizabeth Regional Health and Riggs Community Health Center in Lafayette. IU med school officials hope graduates of the residency program will set up medical practices in and around Lafayette, which like much of Indiana has a shortage of primary-care physicians. The expansion of the residency program will be effective in July 2011.

Lilly Endowment Inc. gave $4 million to Indiana University to help address ethical, legal and social issues involved in the growing sharing and study of health information. IU will create the Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information (CLEAR Health Information). The center also will partner with government, industry and not-for-profit groups in an effort to increase reliability and trust in the use of health information.

Columbus Regional Hospital is suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to recover $17.1 million in federal funds the hospital claims it is owed due to damages caused by a massive flood. The June 2008 flood, designated a federal disaster, caused $167 million in damages and business-income losses to the hospital, which did not fully reopen until nearly five months later. The suit, filed Sept. 15 in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, accuses FEMA of violating federal regulations, negligence and misrepresentation for failing to pay the full amount the hospital says it is owed. The flooding from nearby Haw Creek filled the hospital’s basement to the 12-foot ceiling and partially submerged the first floor. Key medical equipment destroyed by the flood included radiology scanners, radiography and fluoroscopy systems, ultrasounds, cardiac-catherization labs, biopsy tables and biochemical analyzers.

IU: Quick action may have thwarted bed bug problem

September 23, 2010

Indiana University environmental health and safety director Mike Jenson says an employee at the IU Wells Library found one bed bug on a library wall Monday.

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