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Indiana accused of cutting aid to food stamp users

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration attorneys do not believe federal law was broken when officials balanced
food stamp
payments against a state-run supplemental aid program.

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It may be the health care world’s version of a popularity contest, but it’s still fairly prestigious. It’s
the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of hospitals. Eleven clinical programs at Clarian Health
and the Indiana University School of Medicine were ranked among the top 50 programs nationally. The rankings
focus on high-volume hospitals and are driven in large part by reputation surveys. No other Indiana-based hospitals were named
to the list. Clarian placed 13th for urology; 14th in gastroenterology; 25th in both geriatrics and ear, nose and throat;
29th in orthopedics; 32nd in lungs; 38th in kidneys; 40th in neurology and cancer; 48th in diabetes; and 49th in cardiology.

In the latest online matchmaking service, Bloomington-based Cook Medical and Indiana University
have created an online portal where medical inventors and health care entrepreneurs can find each other. The website, i2iconnect.org,
allows users to search a database of medical companies by keywords or disease categories. i2iconnect is partly supported by
a stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health to the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, which
is based in Indianapolis. In 2008, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. tried to start a similar portal for entrepreneurs
of all kinds.

Indianapolis-based BioCrossroads, a life sciences business development group, received a $1.25 million grant
from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, also based in Indianapolis. Fairbanks gave BioCrossroads $2.5 million to fund various
educational and public health efforts.

Eli Lilly and Co. told employees July 15 that it’s cutting 340 information technology positions in
Indiana as part of its march toward 5,500 job cuts by the end of 2011. The Indianapolis-based drugmaker eliminated 140 IT
jobs in June through retirements, resignations and some cuts. Another 115 cuts will be made this month, and the remainder
by the end of the year, according to an e-mail from Janice Chavers, a Lilly spokeswoman. All displaced workers will get a
few months to find another job within Lilly, although those opportunities are few. Workers who leave Lilly will receive severance
based on their pay grade and time served with the company. Lilly employs about 1,250 IT workers in the United States.

Three Indianapolis hospital systems were named “most Wired” hospitals by Hospital & Health Networks
magazine. Clarian Health, Community Health Network and the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center
all made the list of the top 100 hospital systems in the country using information technology to boost quality, customer service,
safety and business operations.

People

Hendricks Nephrology Associates opened recently in a medical office building on the Danville campus of Hendricks Regional
Health. Dr. Robert Fialkow and his son, Dr. Jared Fialkow, will treat patients with kidney
problems.

Batesville-based Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. hired Martha Goldberg Aronson as president of its North American
division. Aronson, who will start Aug. 2 at the maker of hospital beds and furniture, most recently headed business units
at Minnesota-based Medtronic Inc.

Hill-Rom also hired Perry Stuckey as chief human resources officer. He was most recently vice president
of human resources at Wisconsin-based Rockwell Automation. Stuckey also starts Aug. 2.

CEO Jim Bickel and his fellow executives at Columbus Regional Hospital were named the top leadership team
for community and midsize hospitals by Massachusetts-based HealthLeaders Media, which publishes a magazine for health care
executives.
 

Suspected shooter caught

A teenager accused of shooting nine people downtown Saturday at the height of Indiana Black Expo’s Summer Celebration
is behind bars. A tip brought police to Westpark Apartments in the 7800 block of West 10th Street where Shamus Patton, 17,
was hiding. They took him into custody without incident. Police and community sources indicate that Patton belongs to one
of Indianapolis' most active street gangs, the Rachet Boys, which split off three years ago from a group now identifying
itself as the Grimey Boys. A number of the people wounded Saturday night were wearing Grimey Boys t-shirts.
 

Homeowner locked in bathroom, beaten up

A south-side Indianapolis man was able to break out of his bathroom after getting locked inside by robbers early Tuesday
morning. Two men broke into his home near West Thompson Road and South Missouri Street just after 1 a.m. They roughed up the
homeowner and robbed him at gunpoint and knifepoint before barricading him inside his own bathroom.

 

Man, 70, foils break-in

A 70-year-old man used his cane to fend off an intruder on the east side of Indianapolis early Tuesday morning. Charles Jenkins
said he was asleep in bed when he heard a loud crash in his front room just before 3 a.m. in the 2700 block of North Gale
Street. He looked into the living room to see a man climbing in through the window. Jenkins grabbed his cane and hit the intruder
in the head. The stunned suspect ran to a truck behind the house and fled the scene. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.

 

New rules raise stakes for Lilly drug

Drugmakers testing experimental Alzheimer’s medicines—including Eli Lilly and Co.—got good news last week
when the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association proposed new guidelines to make earlier diagnoses
of the disease.

Medicare driving health care hookups

The scramble by local hospitals to form their physicians and facilities into “clinically integrated” networks
that can do business with employers and health insurers has another huge motivating factor: Beginning January 2012, they can
also do business with Medicare, the massive federal program for seniors.

Bren Simon deposition sheds light on family feud

Bren Watch VideoA judge is scheduled to hear final arguments Thursday over whether Bren
Simon should remain as trustee for her late husband's roughly $2 billion estate. A video deposition has provided a glimpse
into ugly family conflicts.

Two companies expanding in northeast Indiana

Together, Fuel Systems of Angola and Steffy Wood Products plan to create more than 170 jobs within the next three years by
investing more than $4.8 million to expand operations in Angola.

Judge hears arguments challenging Emmis sale

Common shareholders are challenging the proposed acquisition of the company by closely held JS Acquisition LLC, formed by
Emmis Chairman and CEO Jeffrey H. Smulyan in an effort to take it private.