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VMS, an Indianapolis-based marketing firm specializing in pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, has hired Phil Belt as its chief operating officer. Belt previously was a vice president at Credit Suisse, focused on private-equity investments in life sciences. Before that, he oversaw the product and corporate communications teams at Eli Lilly and Co.

Dr. Techsin T. Ty has been appointed medical director of Mississippi-based Great Lakes Home Health’s central Indiana service area. Ty practices internal medicine in Kokomo.

Dr. Steven G. Becker has been named interim assistant dean and interim director of the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Evansville branch. He succeeds Rex D. Stith, who had directed the Evansville campus for 18 years. Becker also will continue to serve as a professor of physiology.

Carmel-based CNO Financial Group Inc. hired John M. Bradley as vice president of product management for Medicare markets. Bradley, an actuary, comes from Illinois-based Combined Insurance Co.

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.