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Indiana University Health has canceled plans for a $73 million administrative office building at 16th Street and Capitol Avenue to instead purchase the Gateway Plaza tower at 10th and Illinois streets. The Indianapolis-based hospital system is still moving forward with construction of a $120 million neurosciences hub across the street from its Methodist Hospital campus. But IU Health officials, without being specific, said the price was too good on Gateway Plaza—where the hospital system already rents 130,000 square feet and employs 750 workers. The building currently has 80 percent of its 270,000 rentable square feet leased. But the looming departures of IU Health as well as the IU Foundation—which recently bought its own building along the Central Canal—could have quickly reduced occupancy to 20 percent. IU Health also bought the 1,200-space parking lots adjacent to the building.

Six Indiana hospitals were named to Thomson Reuters' annual list of the nation’s top 100 health care facilities. They included St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, the flagship hospital of Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health. Also making the list were Columbus Regional Hospital, Community Hospital in Munster, Kosciusko Community Hospital in Warsaw, Memorial Hospital & Health System in South Bend, and Reid Hospital & Health Care Services in Richmond. The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals study evaluates performance in 10 areas: deaths; medical complications; patient safety; average patient stay; expenses; profitability; patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards of care; post-discharge deaths; and re-admission rates for patients suffering a heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. The study has been conducted annually since 1993.

Purdue University ranked No. 47 on a list of the institutions worldwide with the most articles published last year in the widely cited Nature research journals. U.S. institutions occupied 33 of the top 50 positions, with Harvard University topping the list. The index is available here. The Nature journals primarily publish articles disclosing basic research findings in life, physical and chemical sciences. The journals focus less on applied scientific or engineering research. The index is a collaboration between Nature Publishing group and Digital Sciences, a sister division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

The Morgan County prosecutor’s office filed a motion Monday to waive juvenile court jurisdiction for the teenager accused of shooting a student last week at Martinsville West Middle School. Prosecutors want the 15-year-old suspect charged as an adult for attempted murder, aggravated battery, carrying a handgun without a license on school property and other charges. A hearing on whether to hand the case over to the adult court is scheduled for April 18. The suspect is in custody at a Johnson County juvenile detention facility. Victim Chance Jackson, 15, has been upgraded from critical to serious condition after two surgeries.
 

An intoxicated traveler was arrested after using an emergency exit to take a smoke break at Indianapolis International Airport Monday night. Airport police say Michael Rogers of Bloomington lit a cigarette inside Concourse A. When a security staff member told Rogers he was not allowed to smoke in the airport, he became uncooperative and opened a secure door to a gate bridge. Two Delta ramp workers stopped Rogers before he could get to the tarmac. He was arrested for public intoxication, criminal trespass and other charges.
 

A west-side Indianapolis homeowner said he came downstairs at around 10:40 Monday night to find three intruders in his house in the 600 block of Livingston Avenue. Nicholas Lyman said two of the men were trying to take his TV. A third guy grabbed him from behind and put a knife to his neck. Eventually the robbers took off in a white Ford F-150 pickup. Lyman, who was cut in the incident, was taken to the hospital, but is expected to be OK.
 

A public-safety personnel diversity task force has issued a report calling for changes in the way Indianapolis hires police and firefighters. The report, issued by a 30-member mayoral task force, found fewer than 14 percent of local police and fire personnel are non-white, even though the city has a black population of 28 percent. The task force said it supports a return to the “80-20 policy” that based 80 percent of promotions strictly on testing and seniority, but allows flexibility to fill out the ranks with minority candidates.
 

The price to park at meters in downtown Indianapolis and in Broad Ripple has gone up. On Monday, a rate hike, along with expanded hours subject to fees, went into effect. Hourly rates jumped from 75 cents to $1. Rates will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Parking previously was free after 6 p.m. Rates will jump again in January to $1.50 an hour in most locations. About 1,200 retrofitted meters, which allow users to pay with a credit card, have been installed. The rest are scheduled to be installed later this spring and summer.