2018 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Krista Brucker
Dr. Krista Brucker's mission is to rescue the opioid abusers who crowd the Eskenazi Health emergency department every day.
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Dr. Krista Brucker's mission is to rescue the opioid abusers who crowd the Eskenazi Health emergency department every day.
Kids with aggressive or recurring cancers have a new team looking out for them at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health.
The opening of the Franciscan Hospice House in 2015 gave the terminally ill a home-like place to die with dignity.
Dr. Robert Batler learned of a more effective method for early detection of prostate cancer and brought it to central Indiana.
Organizers of the Crooked Creek Food Pantry estimated they would serve 200 families a month when the pantry opened in 2015. At last count, 1,200 families a month shop there, filling their carts with mostly healthy food options, at no cost.
The Pediatric Center of Hope starts picking up the pieces for sexually abused children the minute they walk into the exam room.
The Nurse-Family Partnership pairs Medicaid-eligible, first-time mothers-to-be with registered nurses who coach them through their pregnancy and beyond.
Bud Swineford is in his 25th year of door-to-door fundraising for the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Indiana Chapter.
Community Achievement in Health Care Nurse-Family Partnership Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana has lofty goals, like lowering the state’s unacceptably high infant mortality rate and breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Those are ambitious—some might say impossible—challenges. But a program Goodwill introduced in Indianapolis in 2011 is working […]
Teenage cancer patient Emma Stumpf is on a mission to share with others the relief she finds in art.
The Pet-a-Pet program, staffed by dogs who brighten people’s day, is a happy mash-up of Denise Whitfield’s care for patients and her interest in training and showing Shetland Sheepdogs.
Roiled by unsustainable debts, a disintegrating school board and violations of state requirements, Indiana College Preparatory School in Indianapolis will close at the end of the school year.
St. Vincent art therapist Joani Rothenberg helps patients lose themselves in the creative process.
Greg Denniston is a certified recovery specialist at Aspire Indiana, a job he found the hard way, part of a long journey that started with a mental breakdown in 1985.
Gov. Eric Holcomb said he has a pen ready to sign a bill that would overturn the Indiana law that bans carryout alcohol sales on Sundays.
A new survey that takes a wide-ranging look of the local tech community reveals an industry that is growing quickly while still facing some economic and social challenges. The “Indianapolis Tech Census Report” was released Thursday by Powderkeg Ventures LLC, an Indianapolis-based firm that helps connect high-growth tech ventures with resources that help them scale […]
Why are unpopular regulations passed in the first place? And why are they so persistent? Three words: special interest politics.
When leaders cannot see the problem and employees are not comfortable enough to say something, toxic workplace cultures develop.
Paige Dooley brings passion, enthusiasm to patients and co-workers at Community Hospital East.
The improvisation-based company—now known as CSz Indianapolis—just celebrated its 25th year of making-it-up-as-it-goes-along fun. Along the way, it has weathered location shifts, the recession, the post-9/11 comedy crisis and, recently, an ownership change to become the longest-running theater production in the city.