2021 Health Care Heroes: Clinics give ICU patients their lives back
In 2011, Khan started the nation’s first post-ICU outpatient clinic, specifically to address the physical and mental deficits often experienced by ICU patients.
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2021 Health Care Heroes: ‘A debt of gratitude’ owed to heroes
Dr. Kristina Box was thrust into the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic as the state’s health commissioner.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Dashboards detailed virus’ spread, informed decision makers
The dashboards have been used throughout the pandemic to provide important data not only to health and government leaders but also to everyday Hoosiers.
2021 Health Care Heroes: School’s sample testing provided new insight on virus
At the request of Gov. Eric Holcomb, a team of researchers and practitioners at the school designed and executed several waves of sample COVID testing of Indiana’s population.
2021 Health Care Heroes: City’s EMS team shared PPE with front line workers across state
From March to December last year, IEMS crews responded to nearly 20,000 calls about potential COVID-19 cases and were ultimately in contact and caring for more than 2,300 positive patients in Marion County.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Team of Riley nurses prepared coworkers to redeploy early in pandemic
The team was charged with training nurses to be deployed anywhere they were needed during the pandemic, including areas where COVID surges and nursing shortages were expected.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Pulmonogist led Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 antibody trial at Franciscan
Lilly’s BLAZE-1 study examined antibody therapy engineered from one of the first individuals in the United States to recover from COVID and was specifically designed to attack the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Volunteer spent six weeks in vaccine clinics 200 miles from home
Dave Skeels, a 59-year-old retired engineering consultant from Indianapolis, spent six weeks this year volunteering in a vaccine clinic in Evansville, more than 200 miles from home.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Clinic serves uninsured in Pike Township
The clinic, staffed by volunteers, is only open on Saturdays and was seeing 15 to 20 patients a day before the pandemic.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Reforming state’s antiquated, confusing end-of-life statutes
The advance directives overhaul bill, along with legislation the group shepherded in 2013 and 2018, eliminates several barriers to honoring a patient’s wishes.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Prioritizing first responders’ mental well-being through screenings
Wellness is a major focus for the company as it tries to bring down the incidence of early disease and death among public safety personnel.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Jump-starting transplant patients’ recovery
COLTT was launched in 2016 by Dr. David Roe, the former director of IU Health’s lung transplant program, who modeled the program after one he’d seen at Duke University. In 2018, it was expanded to include heart-transplant patients.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Transforming the way health care is delivered
When the pandemic suddenly made in-person visits impossible, Chugh needed to act fast to keep cardiac patients connected with their physicians.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Team launches living donor liver transplants at IU Health
Among complex organs, the liver is the only one that can regenerate.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Riley cardiologist reflects on long career
When he started his career at Riley Children’s Health in 1975, he became the third pediatric cardiologist in the entire state. When he retired this January, there were 22 just at Riley.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Providing a ‘safe haven’ for transgender patients
In March 2016, after nine months of planning and training—and an outpouring of support from her colleagues—Fogel launched the Eskenazi Transgender Health and Wellness Program, a multidisciplinary clinic that serves about 2,000 patients a year from across Indiana and surrounding states.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Nurse dedicates time to training others
Through the decades, Roesener has been instrumental in training thousands of nurses and doctors across the state and educating them about how to respond to high-risk pregnancies.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Nurse has ‘a huge need to be needed,’ ‘no ability to say no’
Ball, 36, is a licensed practical nurse who regularly takes night shifts so others can spend time with their families and does jobs nurses aren’t usually expected to do.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Taking mental health services directly to children
Oruche is developing a program to help parents who are cowed by a convoluted health care system to become more involved.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Couple dedicates retirement to dementia
They moved back to their hometown of Indianapolis in 2014 and immediately got involved with local Alzheimer’s organizations, including the Alzheimer’s Association’s central Indiana chapter.