A growing number of savvy charities are tapping into the viral power of social media, using popular platforms like Facebook and Twitter to connect with supporters and build awareness along with their spheres of influence.
Despite warnings about violations, Kokomo is pushing forward with the $9 million baseball stadium project, which includes spending $2.5 million on flood-prevention measures along Wildcat Creek.
Infant mortality is improving in Indianapolis and around the state, but is still well above the national average, according to two reports last week. In Marion County, the infant mortality rate fell from a high of 12.9 per thousand births in 2009 to 8.3 per thousand in 2012, according to a Community Health Assessment released […]
Keith Davis has been named the first director of Indiana University’s Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology, which will help professors at IU’s Bloomington campus commercialize research discoveries. Davis was a professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Before that, he directed the Plant Biotechnology Center at Ohio State University, and agricultural biotechnology […]
The holidays are looming but that doesn't mean that every arts group or performer is going into holiday hibernation. Here are some non-shopping options.
Just five days after Simon Property Group spun off its strip centers and smaller malls into Washington Prime Group, executives began plotting a multibillion-dollar acquisition.
The two sides duking it out over a construction ban on nursing homes spent more than $475,000 over six months to win lawmakers to their sides—a spike of 37 percent over previous years. And that kind of high-stakes fight is about to happen again.
Round 2 of the fight over a nursing home construction ban will commence in January when the Indiana General Assembly convenes for its new session. Sen. Pat Miller, R-Indianapolis, told IBJ she will introduce a bill that would institute a three-year “moratorium” on construction of skilled nursing facilities. The moratorium is widely favored by nursing […]
Five Indianapolis-area hospitals stand to lose more than $7 million in Medicare payments as a penalty for having rates of infections and patient injuries that run higher than most hospitals nationwide.
Buoyed by the early success of suburban co-working hub Launch Fishers, a group of business backers in Zionsville is lining up support for a similar initiative there.
IU Health wants to consolidate its University and Methodist hospitals into one downtown location, a plan that would see one or both facilities close or be converted to another use.
When patients get to edit their medical records, they tend to leave out important stuff. That was the conclusion of researchers at the Regenstrief Institute, the Indiana University School of Medicine and Eskenazi Health, after they conducted the first experiment ever in which real patients were allowed to control what parts of their medical records […]
