Indiana has now received nearly $50 million in federal bucks to digitize health care around the state. But the latest grant—$16
million to the Indiana Health Information Exchange—comes with specific, ambitious goals for health care providers.
In the 5th District, they’ll decide whether to pick Rep. Dan Burton for what would make 30 years in Congress. In the neighboring
4th District, the likely replacement for retiring Rep. Steve Buyer will be determined.
-K&G Menswear leased 39,963 square feet at Castleton Crossing, 5410 E 82nd St. The tenant was represented by Mark Perlstein of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The landlord, American National Insurance Co., was represented by Bill French of Cassidy Turley.
-Advanced Control Technologies Inc. subleased 11,820 square feet at Hillsdale TechneCenter, Building 3, 6805 Hillsdale Court. The subtenant was represented by Aasif Bade of Ambrose Property Group. The sublandlord, Reliable Water Services LLC, was represented by Don Ballard and Stan Elser of Grubb & Ellis Harding Dahm & Co.
-is.group leased 7,677 square feet at Parkwood One, 250 E. 96th St. The tenant was represented by Jon Jessup and Jeff Merritt of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Duke Realty, represented itself.
-Shoe Trend leased 6,000 square feet at Keystone Plaza, 2335 E. 53rd St. The landlord, Keystone Plaza Associates, was represented by Larry Davis and Scott Gray of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The tenant represented itself.
-Center for Diagnostic Imaging/CDI Radiology leased 4,283 square feet of medical office space at Gables of Avon, 9819 E. US 36, Avon. The tenant was represented by Tim Norton of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Gables of Avon LLC, represented itself.
-Who North America Inc. leased 4,000 square feet at 2040 S. Lynhurst Drive. The tenant was represented by Ryan Kelly of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, ProLogis, was represented by Chris Black of CB Richard Ellis.
-Kforce leased 3,743 square feet at Pan Am Plaza, 201 S. Capitol Ave., Suite 1200. The tenant was represented by Katie Gray and Bill Ehret of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Coastal Partners, represented itself.
-First American Title Insurance leased 2,376 square feet of office space at 20 Executive Drive, Carmel. The tenant was represented by Matt Waggoner of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Century 21, represented itself.
-American Family Dental Group-Bloomington LLC leased 2,296 square feet at 10435 Commerce Drive, Carmel. The tenant was represented by Darrin L. Boyd and David A. Moore of Cassidy Turley. The landlord, West Carmel I LLC, was represented by Matt Moore of Resource Commercial Real Estate Services.
-20/20 Eye Physicians leased 2,095 square feet of medical office space at the Clarian Health Center at 4880 Century Plaza. The tenant was represented by Tim Norton of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Clarian Health Partners Inc., was represented by Tim Craft of CB Richard Ellis.
It’s only the second time in a quarter-century the NCAA has increased the number of teams competing for the men’s national
basketball championship.
Insurers like WellPoint Inc. should be required to get U.S. approval to increase premiums, Sens. Diane Feinstein and Tom Harkin
say.
The April 7 issue of IBJ Health Care & Reform Weekly incorrectly stated that Clarian Health no longer
plans to have physician investors in the Saxony hospital it is building near Fishers. Clarian is unlikely to have physician
investors in the new hospital, but its officials are still evaluating the impact of a new health care law that forbids physician
ownership of new hospitals.
The greater truth is that what we learn from athletics might be just as important as what we learn in the classroom.
To understand why hospitals are so eager to employ physicians—and prevent them from owning their own facilities—look
no further than the latest data on how much doctors are paid compared with how much revenue they generate for hospitals.
Proposal at annual meeting will ask health insurer to study feasibility of converting to not-for-profit status.
-H&E Equipment Services Inc. leased 23,000 square feet on 3.95 acres at 6435 E. 30th St. The tenant was represented by Stan Elser and Evert Hauser of Grubb & Ellis Harding Dahm & Co. The landlord, E-3 Properties LLC, was represented by Bryan Poynter of Cassidy Turley.
-The Kitchen Physician LLC leased 10,340 square feet at 1730 E. 156th St., Carmel. Greg Witkowski and Chris Black of CB Richard Ellis represented the landlord, the Sepro Corp. The tenant represented itself.
-RBC Capital Markets Corp. leased 7,956 square feet at 8888 Keystone Crossing. The tenant was represented by John Vandenbark and Dan Richardson of CB Richard Ellis. The landlord, Keystone Investors LLC, was represented by John Robinson and Abby Cooper of Jones Lang LaSalle.
-Community Hospitals of Indiana Inc., dba Pendleton Medical Group, leased 4,200 square feet at Huntzinger Shoppes, 1251 Huntzinger Blvd., Suite 100, Pendleton. The tenant was represented by Kurt Meyer of Baseline Commercial Real Estate. The landlord, Huntzinger Shoppes LLC, was represented by Jeff Hubley of Midland Atlantic.
-Bensussen Deutsch & Associates leased 4,271 square feet at 32 E. Washington St. The landlord, Indiana Symphony Society Inc., was represented by David A. Moore and Darrin L. Boyd of Cassidy Turley. The tenant represented itself.
-Milex Complete Auto Care leased 3,744 square feet at Kmart #3260 at 860 U.S. 31 South, Greenwood. Rick Jones of Grubb & Ellis Harding Dahm & Co. represented the tenant and the landlord, Sears Holding Corp.
-Shiel Sexton leased 2,000 square feet at 2112 Early Lane, Franklin. Mike Medlock and Bill Brennan of Grubb & Ellis Harding Dahm & Co. represented the tenant and the landlord, Franklin Group, LLC.
-Kimu Restaurant LLC leased 1,400 square feet at 1280 U.S. 31 North, Greenwood. The landlord, Jones Family Investments LLC, was represented by Kyle Hughes of Veritas Realty LLC. The tenant represented itself.
-Shelter Mutual Insurance renewed its lease for 1,250 square feet of office space at Prestwick Junction, 5530 E. U.S. Highway 36, Avon. The tenant was represented by John Sebree of Hokanson Companies. The landlord, the Weston Group, was represented by Stephen Daum of NAI Olympia Partners.
Patients seen at private facilities reimbursed by Medicare were 5-1/2 times more likely to receive routine cataract surgery
than patients at Veterans Affairs facilities, according to a new study.
An Indianapolis doctors' office has started an offshoot practice that specializes in quickly seeing patients with severe
back pain.
Not-for-profit sees increasing numbers of patients, but can't plug the entire gap to be created by health care retirements.
Jason B. Middleton has been appointed director of product and business development for St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers. He will oversee creation of new products and services to offer to physician practices. Middleton was senior practice manager at Solutions Healthcare Management, where he provided managerial and consulting services for St. Francis Medical Group.
Joe Sagorsky has been appointed director of St. Francis Employer Health Solutions. Sagorsky oversees programs linking employers with St. Francis Health Network, which offers a variety of services to improve health plan performance and reduce medical costs. Sagorsky previously worked at Indiana Heart Physicians, which St. Francis acquired in 2009.
Brian Shockney will join Clarian Arnett Health in Lafayette as chief operating officer on May 10. Shockney had been CEO of Logansport Memorial Hospital.
Indiana University Professor Hal E. Broxmeyer, a leading researcher in blood-related diseases, has been named 2010 president of the American Society of Hematology.
Indiana University’s new vice president of research will bring with him a background in neuroscience and cell biology. Jorge José, whose appointment must be approved by IU trustees, comes from a similar position at the University at Buffalo, which is part of the State University of New York system. He will seek to grow IU’s $469 million in annual revenue from research grants and awards. José will replace Robert Schnabel, dean of the IU school of informatics, who has served as interim vice president for research since July 2009. A native of Mexico City, José received his doctorate, as well as master's and bachelor's degrees, in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His most recent research has been in biological physics, specifically in computational neuroscience and cell biology.
The tanning salon industry took a hit when the health reform bill was passed last week. Salon operators and makers of tanning products think the 10-percent tax on tanning equipment could cause the loss of thousands of jobs nationwide. The impact likely will be felt even harder in central Indiana, where dozens of tanning salons have popped up over the last two decades and where one of the nation’s largest makers of tanning beds and lotions made especially for tanning salons is headquartered. Indianapolis-based ETS LLC, ranked by several industry groups as the top-selling manufacturer of tanning beds and lotions, employs 200 in Indianapolis. “It’s difficult to say how badly this will hurt the tanning industry, but it’s safe to say it will hurt,” said Bill Pipp, CEO of ETS. The new tax takes effect July 1.
The Regenstrief Institute has been awarded a $350,000 stimulus bill contract to help the U.S. Social Security Administration and Indiana health care providers speed decision-making on disability cases. The Institute will begin the work immediately. Applying for physician care as part of Social Security disability benefits can take weeks or months as a patient’s medical information is gathered from numerous hospitals and doctors. This time lag has contributed for years to backlogs in the Administration’s caseload. Regenstrief hopes to tap its medical record sharing system, the Indiana Network for Patient Care, to cut down on the wait. The Social Security Administration awarded similar contracts to 14 other organizations throughout the country.
Six hospitals in Indiana were among the top 100 named this year by Thomson Reuters. Those making the list were St. Vincent’s Carmel and Indianapolis hospital, St. Francis’ Indianapolis hospital, Major Hospital in Shelbyville, Parkview Hospital in Huntington and Community Hospital in Munster. The Thomson Reuters list evaluates hospital performance in 10 areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, patient satisfaction, adherence to clinical standards of care, and post-discharge mortality and readmission rates for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
The University of Indianapolis is developing a new on-site nursing degree program for Clarian Health. The goal of the $2.4 million initiative is to help hospital employees move up the career ladder and open up entry level positions for jobseekers displaced by cutbacks in manufacturing and other industries. The funding is part of a federal stimulus package provided by the U.S. Department of Labor through the Indianapolis Private Industry Council. The new Associate of Science in Nursing program, which will be based at Methodist Hospital, will accept 24 students this fall and the following two years.
Think doctors and hospitals aren’t influenced by money? Think again. Patients seen at private facilities reimbursed
by Medicare were 5.5 times more likely to receive routine cataract surgery than patients at poorly funded Veterans Affairs
facilities.
One of the most agreed-upon reasons for health care reform was the expensive overuse of the emergency room by uninsured patients.
But two Hoosier ER docs—one conservative, one liberal—say the implementation of ObamaCare will leave that fundamental
problem unresolved.
Dr. Daniel P. Read has opened a surgical practice at Hendricks Regional Health in Danville. Read served
as chief of surgery at Hendricks Regional Health from 1989 to 1996. His medical degree is from Indiana University School of
Medicine.
Michele Thomas Dole has been named CEO of the Indianapolis-based Community Health Network Foundation, the
not-for-profit organization that raises money for Community’s hospitals and health initiatives. Dole, 39, who most recently
was a wealth adviser to physicians and health care professionals at JP Morgan Chase bank in Indianapolis, will begin her new
position April 12.
Bloomington Hospital has named Dr. Ken Marshall its new chief medical officer. He was most recently head
of medical affairs at Mountain States Health Alliance in Tennessee.
