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Community Health Network named Anne Murphy its vice president of government relations. Murphy, currently the secretary of the Family and Social Services Administration for the state of Indiana, will assume her new role in mid-November. Murphy holds a bachelor’s degree and a law degree from Indiana University in Bloomington.

Dr. Rosanna Sabini has joined Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana as a physiatrist on the hospital’s traumatic-brain-injury team. Sabini comes from a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Sabini received her degree in osteopathic medicine from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Rhonda L. Anders, a registered nurse, has been appointed director of perioperative services for St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers’ Indianapolis and Beech Grove campuses. She was previously director of medical surgical nursing at St. Francis. Anders holds degrees from Indiana University and Indiana Wesleyan University.

IU Hospital soon will receive the catchy new name Indiana University Health University Hospital as part of Clarian Health’s 2011 name change to Indiana University Health. Clarian announced new names for all 17 of its hospitals on Tuesday, saying the names would change in early 2011. Methodist Hospital, for example, will be called Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital—at least inside the halls of Clarian’s offices. Outside it? That’s hard to say. The only hospital that won’t get the “IU Health” tag added before its name is Riley Hospital for Children, which will be known as Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health.

A new estimate has lowered the expected cost of the federal health care overhaul to Indiana's state government to perhaps $2.6 billion over the next decade — $1 billion less than an initial projection made last spring, according to the Associated Press. Robert Damler of the Seattle-based actuarial consulting firm Milliman Inc. told the state's Medicaid oversight commission on Monday that new information provided by the federal government will drop the possible costs an additional $330 million. The firm in May had lowered its initial estimate to $2.9 billion. The latest change is because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in late September changed its interpretation of the law regarding a prescription rebate program. In spite of Democratic criticism, Damler declined to remove an estimated $600 million in costs from the report that could come as a result of increased physician reimbursements.

Analysts think Eli Lilly and Co. may try to acquire its partner, San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc., or chase companies with more approved products to offset repeated setbacks in bringing its pipeline drugs to market, reported Bloomberg News. From Amylin, Indianapolis-based Lilly would gain full control of the diabetes drug Byetta and a longer-acting version called Bydureon that was delayed last week by U.S. regulators. Another option for Lilly would be to build on its painkiller products, such as Cymbalta, by acquiring Pennsylvania-based Cephalon Inc. or Newark, N.J.-based Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. By 2013, Lilly loses patents on medicines responsible for nearly half its revenue.

Indianapolis-based Home Health Depot Inc. said on Thursday it has acquired the Home Health Care Products LLC subsidiary of Arcadia Resources Inc., also headquartered here. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Home Health Care Products sells mobility tools, respiratory devices, bathroom-safety and home-modification products, as well as daily living aids. Home Health Depot was founded in 1998 and purchased by CEO David Hartley in 2004. It has grown from a single office in Greenwood to 12 locations in Indiana and Illinois—increasing annual revenue from $300,000 to more than $6.7 million. The company has more than 100 employees.

OrthoIndy opened a new branch of its Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital in Greenwood. It will serve as a practice location for 21 physicians. Outpatient surgeries will begin in spring 2011. The new location will effectively replace OrthoIndy’s offices at the St. Francis Indianapolis Hospital near Interstate 65 and Emerson Avenue. St. Francis has sued some of the doctors involved in the new OrthoIndy location for breach of contract.

Broadway in Indianapolis presents the national tour of “Dreamgirls,” Nov. 2-7 at the Murat Theatre. Details here.
 
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre opens its season with “Once Upon a Time in India,” Oct. 29-30 at the Pike Performing Arts Center. Details here.

Butler University’s Visiting Writers Series continues with novelist/short-story writer Lorrie Moore, Nov. 1 in the Krannert Room of Clowes Hall. Details here.
 
The Phoenix Theatre presents “My Name is Asher Lev,” adapted from the Chaim Potok novel, Oct. 28-Nov. 21. Details here.
 
Dennis Bingham, associate professor of English and director of film studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI and author of the book “Whose Lives Are They Anyway?” discusses “Lives or Lies? The Truth about Biopics,” Oct. 28 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Details here.

Guests at this year’s Guilded Leaf Book & Author Luncheon Oct. 28 at the Ritz Charles include author Roy Blount Jr. Details here.

Know No Stranger presents “Optical Popsicle II,” a program of “whimsical entertainments,” Oct. 29-30 at the Athenaeum. Details (and a very fun list of discounts—including one for wearing a turtleneck) here.
 

Oct. 30
Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center

The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra is joined by University of Indianapolis faculty soloists and visiting composer William Bolcom for an evening of new works by Bolcom and others. Details here.
 

Oct. 29-Nov. 14
Cardinal Stage Company at Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington

What do you do when you have no talent but love to sing in front of an audience? If you are socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, you ignore the audiences and critics and bankroll your own music career. Cardinal Stage Company, the professional Bloomington-based up-and-coming troupe, offers the local premiere of this unusual comedy. No word if earplugs will be sold in the lobby. Details here.
 

Oct. 29
Indianapolis Museum of Art

When it comes to black and white horror films from the classic monster era, it gets no better than James Whale’s crazed sequel to the original “Frankenstein.” If you only know Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein” spoof (yes, this is the one with the blind man scene), you might be surprised how witty, well-acted and truly creepy the original is. For the Indianapolis Museum of Art screening, I’ll have the honor of providing the introduction for a film that’s long been a favorite of mine and many other old-school horror devotees. Details here.
 
 

Oct. 31
Conseco Fieldhouse

You may not hear it from most mainstream theater reviewers (who often ignore his work), but the fact is Tyler Perry may well be the most popular playwright in America. Yes, the guy who dons grandmotherly drag at the movies has proven adept at filling theaters.

Take this musical for instance, which is bypassing such tiny, tiny theaters as Clowes Hall, the Murat and IU Auditorium to, instead, play Conseco Fieldhouse. Nobody short of Cirque du Soleil can pull that off. Attention must be paid—especially if you think commercial theater is dead.

The show concerns a woman who, after finding out she has cancer, takes her family on a vacation. True to form, it includes play-to-the-rafters jokes and raise-those-same-rafters music. Details here.
 

Indianapolis police say a woman was driving drunk when she hit another car at the Marathon gas station near East 21st Street and North Mitthoeffer Road early Tuesday morning. The victim’s car hit a gas pump, knocking it from its pedestal. An automatic shut-off valve stopped a potential leak or explosion. The driver hit a second car before being arrested.