St. Vincent CEO takes on new duties in Wisconsin
St. Vincent Health CEO Vince Caponi will take charge of three hospitals in Wisconsin that are also owned by St. Vincent’s parent organization, Ascension Health. He’ll also keep his current job.
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Harlon Wilson, president of Indianapolis-based Medical Animatics, says the uncertainty created by the recession and now health care reform have dried up most opportunities for his 3-D animation firm to win new business with health care clients. So he’s looking at new markets—such as the recent online learning work for Harrison College that led Medical Animatics to sell some of its assets to the for-profit university. And Wilson is still banking on persistent needs to educate patients to cause health care to bounce back.
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Vince Caponi, CEO of Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health, will take charge of hospitals in Wisconsin that are also owned by St. Vincent’s parent organization, Ascension Health. The St. Louis-based Catholic hospital system operates 19 hospitals in Indiana and three more in Wisconsin, clustered near Milwaukee. Caponi has engineered a string of acquisitions for St. Vincent Health since taking charge of the organization in 1998.
Indiana University Health will promote Kelly Braverman to the new role of vice president of operations for the health care system’s downtown hospitals–IU Health Methodist Hospital, IU Health University Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. Braverman, 35, has worked as the special assistant to CEO Dan Evans since 2003.
Myron D. Lewis has been named administrative director of Indiana University Health Saxony Hospital, a 42-bed facility scheduled to open later this year in Fishers. Lewis previously served as administrative executive director at the 355-bed IU Health Bloomington Hospital.
Dr. Brian Leffler is joining Avon Family Health, a member of the Hendricks Regional Health Medical Group. Leffley holds degrees from Butler University and the Indiana University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in family medicine at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis.
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A proposal that would make it easier for Eli Lilly and Co. to be purchased in an unwanted takeover will be voted on again by shareholders at the company’s annual meeting. The effort to remove an 80-percent approval threshold for takeover bids against the wishes of Lilly’s board is on the agenda of the April 18 meeting. The proposal failed last year after receiving approval from 74 percent of shareholders owning Lilly stock. To pass, it needed the support of investors holding 80 percent of all of Lilly’s outstanding shares. The supermajority vote requirement, which has been in place for more than 25 years, applies not only to outright takeover bids, but also to measures used to achieve them, such as removing directors before their terms end or expanding the size of the board. If the proposal passes, it would require a bare majority of votes to approve such actions in the future.
A researcher at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute Inc. has received a $420,000 grant to use computer technology to manage patients after they leave hospitals. Dr. Martin Chieng Were’s research focused on patients who are discharged from a hospital even when results from their medical tests are still pending. Poor communication and management of such patients leads to serious medical errors in the patients’ follow-up care, Were has shown. The grant is from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Arcadia Resources Inc. continued to shed money in its most recent quarter but took a smaller loss than it did in the same period of 2009. Indianapolis-based Arcadia lost $2.3 million, or 1 cent per share, on revenue of $26.2 million in its third fiscal quarter, which ended Dec. 31. That compares to a loss of $3.2 million, or 2 cents per share, on revenue of $25.7 million for the same quarter in 2009. In its pharmacy segment, Arcadia reported revenue of $5 million in the latest quarter, marking a 22.6-percent increase for its DailyMed medication-management system over the same period in 2009. Arcadia’s DailyMed service packages doses of prescriptions into individual packets, to make it easier for patients on numerous medications to stick to their regimens. DailyMed currently is offered in WellPoint-affiliated health plans in California, Kansas, South Carolina and Virginia.
Fort Wayne firm to open health info to patients
With electronic medical record systems proliferating, there’s information galore about patients. But it’s not so easy for patients to get at it. Now Fort Wayne-based NoMoreClipboard has been charged to design ways to fix that problem.
Reform, revenue behind Franciscan expansion
Changes unleashed by health reform are pushing Franciscan St. Francis Health’s expansion into Hamilton County—in addition to the obvious pull of the area’s well-heeled population.
Fair trustee: Durham committed fraud of ‘shocking proportions’
Fair Finance Co.’s bankruptcy trustee alleges Tim Durham perpetrated a fraud of "shocking proportions,” draining huge sums from the Akron, Ohio, firm for years to mask that his business empire had collapsed.
Booster groups Indy Partnership, Develop Indy to merge
Local economic development groups Indy Partnership and Develop Indy plan to combine operations to save money and more effectively pitch the city and region to potential job creators.
Logistics provider cutting 76 jobs in Brownsburg
Pittsburgh-based Genco ATC is vacating its Brownsburg facility after failing to receive the contract to operate the warehouse at 901 Northfield Drive.
Business Ownership Initiative hires executive director
Julie Grice, a 10-year veteran of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and former business owner, began her tenure as executive director of the not-for-profit Business Ownership Initiative of Indiana on Sunday.
Castleton mall evacuated for gas leak
Castleton Square Mall was evacuated Tuesday morning as a precaution after a vehicle hit a gas meter outside of Macy’s about 7 a.m. Citizens Gas was able to quickly plug the leak, and the mall opened for business at its regular time of 10 a.m.
Former youth leader arrested
A former assistant director for the Youth Action Community Council in Lebanon has been arrested for theft. Police say Jill Parsons stole about $57,000 from the group's bank account. She was fired in December and turned herself over to police Monday. The YACC operates the Before and After School Experience program for Western Boone and Lebanon Community Schools.
Baby found safe after abduction
Indianapolis police say a baby girl taken from a day-care center at gunpoint by her mother on Monday has been found in good condition and placed with Child Protective Services. Shaniya Harden, 10 months old, was found in an apartment near 42nd Street and Post Road on the city’s east side. An Amber Alert had been issued after her mother, Shyane Harden, 19, went to Little Dreamers Day Care at 3905 Sadlier Drive and forcefully took the girl even though she no longer has custody of the child. The mother was arrested and faces charges of criminal confinement, neglect of a dependent, and violation of a court order.
Senate committee passes sentencing-reform bill
An Indiana Senate committee has passed a plan that would keep violent felons in prison longer and reduce punishments for many thefts and drug crimes.
Fair Finance trustee sues Indy attorney for $375,000
The loan from Fair Finance Co. to Stephen and Linda Plopper matured in 2006, but the couple has failed to satisfy the debt despite recent demands for payment, the suit alleges.
Labor fight: Carolina owner rattles Manning’s cage
Recent moves by NFL owners and players are putting Indianapolis' 2012 Super Bowl in serious jeopardy.
Parking meter replacement set to begin in March
Affiliated Computer Services, which struck a deal late last year to manage the city’s parking meters, will begin replacing meters in downtown Indianapolis and Broad Ripple early next month.
DeVry Inc. plans to open local nursing school
The for-profit school would lease 24,000 square feet at its Keystone Crossing campus and employ 55 people in its nursing program at an average wage of $28.85 an hour. DeVry is requesting property-tax abatement to offset investment costs.
Indiana launches $250K ad blitz for Illinois businesses
State and local officials in northwest Indiana are investing $250,000 in billboards and television and print ads will appear across Illinois and target that state's personal and corporate tax increases.