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Cutting out insurance middleman a factor in St. Vincent’s partnership with on-site clinic company. http://www.ibj.com/st-vincent-partners-with-novia-to-start-clinics/PARAMS/article/14785

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A new study shows the drug-resistant infection MRSA is increasingly being tracked into inpatient hospitals by visitors to their outpatient centers. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/172102.php?nfid=52235

Senate bill draws kudos, continued doubts

In the blogosphere, health-policy experts have given the Senate health reform bill kudos for trying everything under the sun to reduce health care spending, but there are lingering doubts about whether it will really work.

Company news

<p><strong>Dow AgroSciences LLC</strong>, which seems to sign a new deal every week, announced two, in fact, in the past eight
                     days. The Indianapolis-based developer of agricultural products announced Nov. 24 that its Canada subsidiary acquired the
                     assets                      of Hyland Seeds, a division of Thompsons Ltd. of Blenheim, Ontario. Dow Agro is adding distribution
                     capacity for the 2010 launch of its SmartStax variety of genetically modified seeds.                      Then on Dec. 1,
                     Dow Agro invested an undisclosed amount in Ontario-based Agrisoma Biosciences Inc. The companies have been collaborating
                     since 2004 to genetically engineer plant traits, and now will expand their work into field crops, such as corn and soybeans.
                     Dow Agro&rsquo;s investment secured it a commercial license option for Agrisoma technology.</p><p>The <strong>Indiana   
                     Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute</strong> has received $2.5 million to help it turn laboratory discoveries into
                     treatments faster. The money will be used to bring the <strong>University of Notre Dame</strong> into the institute, now a
                     partnership of Indiana and Purdue universities. Other funds will go to build up the institute&rsquo;s Web site          
                     and to figure out best practices for community-health efforts. Nearly $1 million of the funds will be used to recruit patients
                     to participate in clinical trials conducted by physicians at the Indiana Clinic, a new joint venture of the <strong>IU  
                     School of Medicine</strong> and the Indianapolis-based <strong>Clarian Health</strong> hospital system.</p><p>Officials of
                     <strong>Wishard Health                      Services</strong>                      released details Tuesday of their first
                     request for bids on construction of a new Wishard                      hospital downtown.                      Hospital officials
                     are looking for contractors to build a 2,300-space                      parking garage, the first of five buildings to  
                     house the new hospital. Marion County voters agreed&nbsp;                      Nov. 3 to back bonds that&nbsp; Wishard&rsquo;s
                     parent organization will sell                      to fund the $754 million project.                      A meeting about
                     the bid process will be held Dec. 17. The new hospital is scheduled to open                      in December            
                     2013.</p>
                 

People

<p><strong>Dr. Denise L. Johnson Miller</strong> has been named director of the St. Francis Breast Surgery Program, effective
                     Dec.1. Miller comes from Stanford University Medical Center in California, where she directed cancer outreach and melanoma
                     surgery programs.<br /><br /><strong>Jeff Smulyan</strong>, CEO of Emmis Communications                      Corp., has been
                     named co-chairman of Hoosiers Work for Health, an industry-funded group promoting awareness of social and               
                     economic impacts of the health care industry. Smulyan replaces former Indianapolis mayor <strong>Bart Peterson</strong>,
                     who took a job as a senior vice president at Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. The group’s other co-chairman is <strong>Jim
                     Morris</strong>,                      president of Pacers Sports and Entertainment.</p><p><strong>Dr. Anh-Danh Phan</strong>
                     has joined the Eugene and Marilyn                       Glick Eye Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department
                     of Ophthalmology as a visiting assistant clinical                      professor of ophthalmology. Phan received her medical
                     degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.</p>
                 

CBO: Health insurance costs to stay high

If Congress passes health reform, the number of people buying insurance on their own will more than double by 2016, according
to projections by the Congressional Budget Office, as health reform requires all Americans to have health insurance.

Man accused of selling drugs at Clay Terrace

An Indianapolis man is behind bars after a cocaine bust near a popular Carmel shopping mall. The Hamilton-Boone County Drug
Task Force arrested 27-year-old Jaime Agustin. They say he was selling cocaine near Clay Terrace. The drug task force said
18 grams of the drug were confiscated during a three-month investigation.

Virus outbreak prompts euthanization of 65 cats

The Humane Society of Indianapolis has euthanized 65 cats over the past 10 days after a common feline virus mutated out of
control. The director of operations for the Humane Society said the organization has never had a virus outbreak this extensive.
Cat adoptions have been put on hold until next month. The agency also is not accepting any new cats. Dog adoptions are continuing
as normal.

Woman reports attack by police impersonator

A woman says she was attacked about 3 a.m. Tuesday near State Road 38 and Hague Road in Noblesville by a man she thought was
a police officer. The woman told police she pulled over after she noticed a silver car with a red light behind her. A man
impersonating an officer asked her for her registration. When she reached to get it, the man got inside the vehicle and held
a weapon to her neck. The woman said she was able to scare the attacker off with a knife she had in the car. FOX59 will have
more at 4 p.m.

Grain Dealers finalizes affiliation with Florida firm

Indianapolis-based Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co., one of the largest property-casualty insurers in the state, has closed
on a deal to became part of The Main Street America Group, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based company said Tuesday morning.