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.
Home » Search
Search Results
14192 results for 'articles'
To refine your search through our archives use our Advanced Search
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.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Volunteer stocks ‘comfort’ cart for patients’ parents, caregivers
The cart, known at Riley as the “convenience store on wheels,” has served since 2006 as a lifeline for inpatients and their families, providing snacks, toiletries and other everyday items free of charge so families of Riley patients can focus on their children.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Volunteer advocates for organ donation after brother’s death
Montgomery and her sister Courtney share their donation message with audiences ranging from high school students to law enforcement.
Health care real estate firm Cornerstone forms joint venture with KKR
Indianapolis-based Cornerstone Cos. Inc. said it teamed with the New York City-based global investment giant to acquire and develop more than $1 billion in real estate assets over the next few years. The deal includes the recapitalization of 25 Cornerstone properties.
Indiana districts get less money for quarantined students, but that might change
Indiana school districts grappling with a possible loss of funding for quarantining students could get relief under newly proposed legislation.
FBI fires agent in Indianapolis office involved in Nassar case
An FBI agent accused of failing to properly investigate former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar—and lying about it later—was fired days before a high-stakes public hearing into the bureau’s flawed investigation of the child sex-abuse case.
Indiana Supreme Court establishes Eviction Task Force
A nine-member task force created by the Indiana Supreme Court will help landlords and tenants resolve their disputes and access federal rental assistance resources.
Twelve more named to Governor’s Public Health Commission
Top health officials in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne were named Tuesday to a new panel tasked with studying Indiana’s public health system and making recommendations for improvement.
Apple’s next iPhone mirrors last year’s, adds more storage
Like last year’s model, the new iPhone 13 will come in four different designs, with prices starting from $700 to $1,100. They’re scheduled to be in stores Sept. 24.
Apple explains how to update devices to correct security flaw
Apple has released a critical software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers say could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple devices without any involvement of the owner.