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Englewood Development has under contract the former Shirley Engraving property at 460 Virginia Ave., where it plans up to 50 apartments, about 5,000 square feet of retail space and an underground parking garage.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has dismissed an appeal by ousted Secretary of State Charlie White so he can seek relief from the judge who presided over his vote fraud trial.
Almost two weeks after Angela Braly was forced out as WellPoint Inc. CEO, the management team she put in place has been told by the board it will stay, said Chief Financial Officer Wayne Deveydt.
Dr. Gary Dunnington, a surgical oncologist, has been named chairman of the Indiana University School of Medicine department of surgery. Dunnington comes to IU after 15 years at the Southern Illinois University. Previously, he was an associate professor of surgery at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. Dunnington graduated from Chrysler High School in New Castle, Ball State University and the IU School of Medicine.
The School of Science at IUPUI hired Lisa Jones as an assistant professor of chemistry, specializing in bioanalytical chemistry. Before coming to IUPUI, Jones taught at Missouri College. Jones earned her doctorate in biochemistry from Georgia State University and her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Syracuse University.
David Delaney has been appointed director of business development for Franciscan St. Francis Health. He most recently served as a community and business development consultant for Indianapolis-based Advantage Health Solutions Inc. Delaney holds a degree from Purdue University.
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center has added the following researchers: Jill Fehrenbacher, who studies how cancer therapies cause numbness and burning pain; Dr. Emma Rossi, who studies minimally invasive and computer-assisted surgical techniques for gynecologic cancer; Dr. Peter Schwartz, who conducts research on patient understanding and decision-making; Dr. Rebecca Silbermann, who studies multiple myeloma bone disease; and David Waning, who studies musculoskeletal complications in cancer and cancer therapy.
Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health will manage operations at Monroe Hospital in Bloomington under an agreement announced Sept. 4. Adding Monroe gives St. Vincent control of hospitals stretching from Indianapolis to Bedford and even farther south to Salem and Evansville. St. Vincent owns or operates 22 hospitals around the state. The only other Indiana hospital with that kind of geographic reach is Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health, which owns Bloomington Hospital. St. Vincent will oversee quality and safety efforts, physician relations, patient experience, finance and other functions to increase efficiency and reduce costs. The 32-bed facility, which opened in 2006, is owned by Alabama-based Medical Properties Trust Inc. Monroe has routinely lost money, including a loss of $13.2 million in 2011, according to hospital reports to the federal Medicare program, made available by the website AHD.com. Monroe had total patient revenue last year of $102.4 million. The hospital had been courting potential partners or buyers for at least two years. It entered discussions not only with St. Vincent, but also with Mishawaka-based Franciscan Alliance and Munster-based Community Healthcare System.
Nyhart Actuary & Employee Benefits has established its first office on the West Coast with its latest acquisition. Nyhart will add 15 employees by acquiring San Diego-based Epler Co., a regional actuarial, employee benefits and compensation-strategies firm. Nyhart now has 100 employees, including 70 at its headquarters in Indianapolis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal gives Nyhart new expertise on employee compensation, which it hopes will help bolster its pension business for private, church and public plans. Nyhart serves plans with $15 billion or more in assets, providing fund analysis, advisory services on employee compensation and retirement benefits, and actuarial work on health care issues. It is the third acquisition Nyhart has made in the last two years.
Tymora Analytical Operations LLC has received a $150,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health. The West Lafayette-based company will use the money to develop nanotechnology products that aim to help researchers analyze the adding of phosphate molecules to proteins in the body, a process that plays a role in cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and other maladies. Tymora’s leading product would allow researchers to detect multiple changes to proteins in a single experiment. The 2-year-old company has been funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, an investment by Purdue’s Emerging Innovations Fund and winnings from business plan competitions.
Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health will now make its pediatric specialists available at The South Bend Clinic. Riley specialists in cardiology, diabetes, gastroenterology, neurology and rheumatology will see patients from throughout the northern Indiana and southern Michigan regions. Riley's hospital facility in downtown Indianapolis treats children from all over Indiana and beyond the state's borders.
A large physician practice in Bloomington remains at an impasse with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana less than two months before their contract is set to expire.
Police say three boys found five grenades and several rounds of ammunition at a city park in central Indiana. The grenades were found Sunday afternoon in a wooded area of Athletic Park near downtown Anderson. A state police bomb squad removed the items from the park. Police and bomb-sniffing dogs didn’t find any more explosives during follow-up searches of the area.
A motorist was injured when he drove into a tree and flipped his Chevy Silverado truck onto its side early Monday morning. The crash happened about 1:45 a.m. in the 9500 block of Brookville Road, on the southeast side of Indianapolis. Rescue crews had to extricate driver David Cannon, 26, from his vehicle. Cannon was conscious and talking to firefighters before being taken to Wishard Hospital.
A gasoline spill in Fishers on Monday morning prompted the evacuation of a nearby medical building and temporarily blocked access to a neighboring shopping center. The spill happened at 10 a.m. at the Ricker's BP gas station at East 116th Street and Cumberland Road. The Fishers Fire Department worked to clean up as much as the spill as possible but as much as 50 gallons may have gone into a storm drain. Officials are trying to determine if there’s a potential danger to local waterways. No injuries were reported.
While Crooked Stick and Colts officials have reason to be pleased after this weekend, they also have plenty to work on if they want to continue drawing big fan bases.
Manitowoc Foodservice said it will eliminate 235 jobs with a Fort Wayne plant closure slated for April 30. The company gave no reason for its decision.
Applications to the MBA programs at Indiana University and Purdue University fell sharply this year, part of a nationwide trend among many of the nation's largest and most prominent business schools.
Bloomington-based Cook Medical announced a new division to capitalize on the growing market for minimally invasive procedures to fix problems in ears, noses and throats, as well as other maladies of the head and neck.
A $6.4 billion accord for U.S. drug and medical-device reviews is set to unravel just three months after taking effect as lawmakers squabble over budget cutbacks.
An Ohio-based food manufacturer announced Monday morning that it plans to spend $28.5 million to expand a vacant food plant in eastern Indiana, creating up to 400 jobs by 2016. The plant was formerly used by Really Cool Foods.
Abound Solar Inc., the bankrupt solar-panel maker that had hoped to hire up to 1,200 people in Indiana by the end of next year, will have its assets sold at auctions this month and in October.
University officials say plans call for the Terre Haute school to reach the 14,000-student goal by adding more than 1,000 undergraduates and more than 800 graduate students during the next five years.
The arts season begins with a jammed-packed weekend of activity.
Officials in Anderson filed a complaint in Madison County Circuit Court this past week challenging portions of the Fire Department contract that prohibit the city from reducing the department's staff or salaries or putting firefighters on furloughs.
