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Franciscan to mark Beech Grove closure
Franciscan St. Francis Health announced five years ago that it would consolidate its Beech Grove operations into an expanded hospital seven miles south, near Interstate 65 and Emerson Avenue. The last inpatient department to close at Beech Grove will be its emergency room, on March 16.
Franciscan pulls back Greenwood plans
Franciscan St. Francis Health said its plans to build an emergency room and physician office building in Greenwood are on hold due to uncertainty over the effects of health care reform.
Hospitals to build $14M medical center in Bargersville
Community Health Network and Johnson Memorial Hospital plan to spend $14 million to build a medical office building and outpatient center in Bargersville. The 70,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to be completed in mid-2013.
Loss of St. Francis puts Beech Grove at crossroads
There is a mix of sadness, grief and anger in Beech Grove, as Franciscan Alliance moves the last of its inpatient and emergency operations from its nearly 100-year-old Beech Grove hospital to the new Franciscan St. Francis facility at Stop 11 Road and Emerson Avenue.
WISH turns Mini Marathon into made-for-TV drama
About 65,000 central Indiana households representing more than 115,000 viewers are expected to tune in to the 3-1/2-hour WISH-TV Channel 8 broadcast of the nation’s largest half marathon.
Indy is poster child (again) for medical arms race
Indianapolis was highlighted in a new national study because its hospitals have been particularly aggressive at expanding their geographic reach—raising concerns among health insurers and even hospitals themselves that new medical facilities and market power can only lead to higher prices.
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Katherine Peck has been named executive associate dean for administration, operations and finance at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Peck was associate dean of financial services at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Before joining the University of Florida in 2000, Peck was the controller for several private companies in a variety of industries including biotechnology, manufacturing and environmental waste management. Peck holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and an MBA from Yale University School of Management.
Dr. Glenn Dobbs will provide obstetric services at Franciscan St. Francis Health’s Mooresville hospital. The arrival of Dobbs and the physician group he belongs to, Southside OB-GYN, helps Franciscan avoid a gap in obstetrics in Mooresville. The physician group that provides those services, Southwest Women’s Health, is scheduled to end its relationship with Franciscan-Mooresville in May. Dobbs, who specializes in high-risk obstetrics, did his medical training at Western University of Health Sciences in California.
OBEIME: Poor, uninsured won’t monopolize resources
Myth prevents policymakers from attacking real problem of distributing funding.
Physician buyouts bruising hospitals
As St. Vincent Health has nearly doubled the number of physicians it employs over the past two years, the losses on those practices have mounted. And the same thing is happening at all the major Indianapolis hospital systems, as all have spent the past four years aggressively acquiring physician practices.
Greenwood eyes more office parks for I-65 corridor
Greenwood Mayor Mark Myers wants to see more offices, corporate headquarters and medical facilities along Interstate 65. He's been meeting with business owners and developers in the area to discuss ways they can team up to pursue that goal.
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Mark Morrell recently joined Krieg DeVault LLP’s health care practice in Indianapolis. He will concentrate his practice on mergers and acquisitions, managed care negotiations, finance and other corporate legal matters. Morrell was previously an attorney at Hancock Daniel Johnson & Nagle PC in Virginia. An Indianpaolis native, Morrell received a bachelor’s degree from Ball State University and did his legal training at Regent University School of Law.
State Rep. Cynthia Kirchhofer, R-Beech Grove, has been appointed risk analyst at Franciscan St. Francis Health. She will manage medical claims and cases, and oversee a program to reduce threats to hospital assets and resources. Kirchhofer joined Franciscan in 2004 after working for several law firms. She holds a paralegal certificate from IUPUI.
Douglas M. Gioe, corporate compliance and privacy officer for Franciscan St. Francis Health, will retire from his position June 20. Before coming to Franciscan St. Francis, Gioe was risk manager and quality assurance coordinator for the former Central State Hospital in Indianapolis.
Electronic health records bring $135M to Indiana
The federal stimulus program to speed “meaningful use” of electronic medical records is starting to generate significant cash for Indiana health care providers: More than $135 million has flowed to more than 2,000 Hoosier hospitals and doctors since January 2011.