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Dr. Amy Schmidt, a pathologist, has joined Wishard-Eskenazi Health. She did her medical training and received a doctoral degree at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

Dr. Frank Messina, an emergency medicine physician, has been named medical director of the Wishard-Eskenazi Health Transition Support Department. Messina earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and did his medical training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York in 1987.

Keith Jewell has been picked to be the next president of St. Mary’s Health, an Evansville hospital that is part of Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health. Jewell, currently chief operating officer of the Franciscan St. Francis Health hospital system in Indianapolis, will assume his new role in mid-December. An Evansville native, Jewell earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA at the University of Southern Indiana. He began his health care career at Evansville’s Deaconess Hospital. He joined Franciscan in 1993.

Dr. Jillian Erb, a family physician, recently joined Sheridan Family Medicine. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Indiana University in Bloomington and her medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Company news

Faced with huge debt payments next year, San Francisco-based Genstar Capital is exploring a sale of Indianapolis-based Harlan Laboratories, the world’s second-biggest provider of lab animals. Genstar, which acquired Harlan in a leveraged buyout in 2005, faces long odds on refinancing $280 million in debt that comes due in July 2014. That’s because Harlan has experienced “double-digit revenue contraction” after sales reached $326 million in 2012, according to a report by Standard & Poor’s. Harlan has been losing ground in its contract research work, analysts say, because pharmaceutical companies have scaled back early-stage research. Harlan employs about 330 people in the Indianapolis area.

The state of Indiana will extend its high-risk insurance pool through the end of January to accommodate Hoosiers who have been unable to enroll in coverage through the federal marketplace, according to TheStatehouseFile.com. The Indiana Comprehensive Health Insurance Association–often called ICHIA–provides coverage for roughly 6,800 individuals with significant medical needs and costs the state about $6.3 million per month. The program was scheduled to shut down at the end of the year. The state created its high-risk insurance pool in 1982 to provide health care options for seriously ill Hoosiers who did not have access to coverage in the private market. Its users tend to have problems including cancer, hemophilia, HIV/AIDS or organ failure. Last spring, the General Assembly passed a law dissolving the program because the patients would become eligible to purchase coverage through the federal marketplace. But state officials now worry those patients won’t be able to sign up in time.

In an attempt to improve public health planning and efforts, researchers at IUPUI have received a $200,000 grant to study whether they can use electronic medical records to measure health outcomes by neighborhood or census block. The two-year study will try to establish a valid method for integrating data from the medical records with other community health indicators such as parks, health care facilities and grocery stores selling fresh produce. “When there is a limited budget for, say, preventing diabetes, the county health department has to determine how to spend its resources,” said Brian Dixon, an informatics professor and researcher at Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute Inc., who is leading the study. “One choice is to evenly divide the money across all communities within the county, some of which probably don’t have as much need as others. A second choice is to identify specific areas within the county that might need intervention the most.” The grant was awarded by the National Network of Public Health Institutes with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Man arrested after crash kills van driver

Edward Sadler, 51, died Sunday when the passenger van he was driving for Jesus House of Light Temple was struck by an alleged drunk driver at 46th Street and Emerson Avenue just before 8 p.m. More than a dozen of the van’s 17 passengers were taken to the hospital, but only a 7-year-old remained there Monday morning. Brandon Collins, 26, was charged with running a red light resulting in death and driving while intoxicated.

Boy, 16, dies in police chase

Two 16-year-old boys who fled from a rehabilitation facility in McLean County, Ill., in a stolen Pontiac Sunfire crashed into an Indianapolis firehouse Monday at 4:30 a.m., killing one of the teens and injuring the other. The boys were being chased by Brownsburg police, who tried to stop the vehicle for a broken light. Nobody in Station 12, in the 2100 block of Kessler Boulevard West Drive, was injured. The crash started a natural gas leak, forcing road closures near Michigan Road and Kessler.

Another Bisard juror dismissed

Judge John Surbeck dismissed a juror in suspended cop David Bisard's trial on Monday for looking up information about blood-alcohol tests on the Internet. Two other jurors had previously been excused, leaving no alternates in the reckless homicide trial. If one more juror is dismissed, a mistrial would be declared. Bisard’s patrol car crashed into two motorcycles stopped at an Indianapolis traffic light in August 2010, killing a man and seriously injuring two other people. Prosecutors say Bisard was intoxicated.

How the Brizzi public-corruption case unraveled

Federal authorities suffered a near-complete defeat in their efforts to prosecute the players in an unusual real estate deal in Elkhart, a setback that ultimately scuttled an ambitious public-corruption case targeting former Marion County prosecutor Carl Brizzi.

Judge sentences attorney Page to probation, fine

Attorney and real estate developer Paul J. Page will serve two years of probation and pay a $10,000 fine for concealing the source of a $362,000 down payment on his purchase of a state-leased office building in Elkhart.

Foes say proposed reservoir would have adverse impact

A Muncie group that opposes a proposal to build a new reservoir in central Indiana says the project raises health concerns, including waste from former auto industry plants that might contaminate the reservoir.

Pace slows, but Carmel redevelopment panel still busy

The Carmel Redevelopment Commission has a lot to do—with or without staff support. Mayor Jim Brainard and the city’s director of administration will handle the volunteer panel’s day-to-day affairs for the immediate future.

Discount retailers, grocers await impact of food-stamp cut

With an estimated 8 percent of shoppers using food stamps, the impact will probably be felt most acutely by discount retailers such as Dollar General Corp., Family Dollar Stores Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores, analysts say.

Review recommends stronger oversight of state contractor

An independent review of Elevate Ventures found the state contractor needs more oversight even though it is "substantially compliant with its investment and operational requirements,” Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's office said Friday.

Leases/leasing contracts

-Gannett Co. Inc. leased 22,000 square feet of office/industrial space at 7531 Miles Drive. The tenant was represented by Nick Arterburn of CBRE. The landlord, WF Industrial Properties, was represented by Patrick Lindley and Grant Lindley of Cassidy Turley.

-Goodwill Industries leased 10,984 square feet of retail space at 4200 S. East St. The tenant was represented by Bill French of Cassidy Turley. The landlord, Tri Land Properties Inc., represented itself.

-Lockerbie Square Cabinet Co. leased 7,194 square feet of industrial space at 4350 W. 10th St. The tenant was represented by Brett Burch of Valenti Real Estate Services. The landlord, Speedway Industrial Park, was represented by Bill Byram of Cassidy Turley.

-Raybourn Group International leased 6,551 square feet of space at Parkstone Office Center, 9100 N. Purdue Road. The landlord, Parkstone Indianapolis LP,  was represented by Derek Menerey and Ashley Bussell of Newmark Knight Frank Halakar. The tenant represented itself.

-Peachin Schwartz & Weingardt PC leased 6,016 square feet at Crosspoint Six, 9775 Crosspoint Blvd. The tenant was represented by Brian Askins of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Young Realty Crosspoint Six, was represented by Lori Pfeiffer and Larry Davis of Sitehawk Property Management.

-Dealers Transmission Exchange leased 5,000 square feet at 5700 W. Minnesota St. The tenant was represented by Cam Kucic of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, CCH Investments LLC, was represented by Brad Williams and Tyler Wilson of Summit Realty Group.                

-Bloomfield Bank leased 3,250 square feet at Fidelity Keystone Office Tower, 650 E Carmel Drive, Carmel. The tenant was represented by Darrell Pike of Pike Real Estate Services LLC.  The landlord, Network Capital Corp., was represented by Ralph Balber and Ashley Bussell of Newmark Knight Frank Halakar.

-VYM General Contractors LLC leased 1,800 square feet of industrial space at 5303-5331 W. 86th St. The landlord, Iron Point Titan Asset Management LLC, was represented by Bryan Poynter of Cassidy Turley. The tenant represented itself.

-Square 9 leased 1,608 square feet at Fidelity Keystone Office Tower, 650 E. Carmel Drive, Carmel. The landlord, Network Capital Corp., was represented by Ralph Balber and Ashley Bussell of Newmark Knight Frank Halakar. The tenant represented itself.

-Horwitz & Associates leased 1,499 square feet at Parkstone Office Center, 9100 N. Purdue Road. The landlord, Parkstone Indianapolis LP, was represented by Ashley Bussell and Derek Menerey of Newmark Knight Frank Halakar. The tenant represented itself.

-Integrity Travel Solution leased 1,355 square feet at Parkstone Office Center, 9101 N. Wesleyan Road. The landlord, Parkstone Indianapolis LP, was represented by Derek Menerey and Ashley Bussell of Newmark Knight Frank Halakar. The tenant represented itself.

-Astra Digital leased 973 square feet at Parkstone Office Center, 9101 N. Wesleyan Road. The landlord, Parkstone Indianapolis LP, was represented by Derek Menerey and Ashley Bussell of Newmark Knight Frank Halakar. The tenant represented itself.