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NOTIONS: Pugilism, Parkinson’s, politics, DNA: a powerful combination set to win

July 25, 2005

If you knew only that Scott Newman is a former prosecutor, you might think his new workouts apt. The man known for courtroom sparring now feints, weaves, jabs and thrusts with a former Golden Gloves boxing champion. But that’s not all we know about the 44-year-old Republican twice elected Marion County prosecutor. For in 2002, Newman also became Indianapolis’ most public Parkinson’s patient. Today, Newman says boxing provides the perfect exercise for the neurologically challenged. “Parkinson’s is a movement disease,”…

Major Hospital brings physician practices into the fold: Smaller doctor groups find health systems attractive

July 11, 2005

Major Hospital went on a buying spree toward the end of last year, and it had nothing to do with the holiday season. The Shelbyville hospital purchased three physician practices as part of an effort to help doctors and to make Major a “physician-friendly hospital,” Major Hospital CEO Tony Lennen said. “I’ve always felt if our physicians do well, we’ll do well,” he said. “Our goal down here is, ‘Is there some symbiotic way we can coexist?’ “We’ve always been…

Degree combines medicine, business: IU grads put in 5 years to earn combo MD/MBA

July 11, 2005

Tell people you have your MD and they’ll likely be impressed. Tell them you also have an MBA-well, now you’re just showing off. For four recent Indiana University graduates, however, impressing others had nothing to do with their decision to pursue simultaneous medical and business degrees. It’s all about making their way in the increasingly complicated field of health care, where being a good doctor is about more than having the highest grades in medical school. The four students received…

NOTIONS: Dear Lance: How ’bout beyond-the-bike immortality?

July 11, 2005

Dear Lance: I’ve got an idea. I thought you might noodle it during that 239-kilometer, Stage 17 ride from Pau to Revel. It might keep your mind off those flags people wave in your face. By way of background, you and I have much in common. Like you, I’m a cancer survivor. As in your case, a physician from the Indiana University School of Medicine figured out how to treat mine after others had botched it. Like you, I ride…

Living wills get surge of interest: Lawyers, caregivers, estate planners field more questions about advance directives in wake of Schiavo case

July 11, 2005

When Mick Meiners brings up living wills these days, his clients tend to pay more attention than they did before the Terri Schiavo case dominated headlines. “In the past, people would say, ‘Yeah, that might be something I might get to or it’s something my parents should do,'” said Meiners, a certified financial planner with Financial Plans & Strategies Inc. of Indianapolis. The St. Vincent Hospice also has seen a spike in interest, with more phone calls from people asking…

Taking the pulse of life sciences: Experts weigh in on whether Indiana is keeping up in the economic development race

June 27, 2005

IBJ: Is Indiana gaining ground against other states in the race to grow as a life sciences hub? What are some specific benchmarks that underscore your opinion? JOHNSON: Indiana is gaining ground, but Indiana already starts on really very substantial ground. There are a lot of outside validations of that and I think it’s important for this audience to hear a couple of them because there is nothing like having people on the outside pay attention to what we’re doing…

Clinic predicts Hamilton County will be fertile ground: Doctors relocate reproductive practice to growing area

June 27, 2005

Surgery centers and a heart hospital are among a host of health care facilities that have risen in burgeoning north-suburban Hamilton County in recent years. Now, a new fertility clinic could contribute to the population surge by helping couples conceive children. The 6,400-square-foot Follas Center for Reproductive Medicine opened late last month on East 146th Street in Noblesville in a collaboration between several Indianapolis reproductive medicine innovators. The center is a partnership between Dr. David McLaughlin, a local pioneer of…

NOTIONS: Standing face to face with the end of the universe

June 20, 2005

Editor’s note: Bruce Hetrick this month won first place for best bylined commentary in a national competition conducted by the Alliance of Area Business Publications. The winning entry, about Hetrick’s wife, Pamela Klein, was first published in IBJ on March 1, 2004. It is reprinted here. Klein died March 5, 2005. It’s Saturday morning. I’m sitting on the window ledge in my wife, Pam’s, room at Methodist Hospital. Outside, the February sky is as gray as my spirit. While Pam…

Heirs spar for exec’s riches: Grandson of Lilly officer who died in ’77 fights widow’s trust

June 6, 2005

Robert E. Koffenberger joined Eli Lilly and Co. as a salesman in 1939. By the time he retired in 1974, he was one of the company’s highest-level executives, a member of the board of directors-and an immensely wealthy man. Now, 28 years after the Indianapolis executive’s death, a fight over that fortune has split his grandchildren. One of the eight has launched a court fight here charging that his brother and sister-in-law took advantage of the cloudy mind of Koffenberger’s…

New providers fill up the market for air-rescue services: Indiana sees growth spurt in helicopter transport firms

June 6, 2005

Medical helicopters are filling the skies over Indiana in an unprecedented growth spurt that has sparked a heated debate about overuse and quality of care. A market once dominated by not-forprofit Clarian Health Partners’ LifeLine program has seen three out-of-state companies plant seven new helicopter bases in central and southern Indiana over the past few years. PHI Air Medical Group Indiana, a subsidiary of Phoenix-based PHI Air Medical Services, opened bases in West Lafayette, Anderson and Columbus last year. They…

BEHIND THE NEWS: Guidant defibrillator flap spawns disclosure debate

May 30, 2005

Early this year, when Minnesotabased Medtronic Inc. was deciding how to respond to a battery defect in its defibrillators, it contacted prominent Indianapolis cardiologist Douglas Zipes. “You absolutely go public with this,” Zipes, a longtime consultant for the Minnesota company, recalled saying. “You take your hit, you let the physicians know what is happening, and let them decide what to do with their individual patients.” Remaining silent, he said, carried worse risks, even though reported failures were rare. “The last…

Competition stakes claim on hospital’s turf: Dialysis center would sit 1 block south of Methodist

May 23, 2005

A real estate company has filed plans to build a medical office building and dialysis center downtown, in the shadow of Methodist Hospital and Clarian Health Partners. A and T Realty wants to plop a 13,416-square-foot office on what now is a parking lot a block south of Methodist, according to plans filed with the city. The development has no connection to Clarian, according to Mike Quinn, a lawyer representing A and T. Clarian, whose three downtown hospitals all offer…

EYE ON THE PIE: Lessons from a low-profile death

April 25, 2005

Worldwide, about 57 million people will die this year. Few will make headlines like Pope John Paul II and Terri Schiavo did. Many will die as did Kianna Rowe Karnes of Indianapolis, attended by family but abused or neglected by the health profession. Karnes was 44 when she died a few weeks ago from kidney cancer. She was not brain dead. She was not at the end of a long life, but in the rich, middle years where she could…

Health builders thinking small: Local hospital development in for change

April 25, 2005

Just north of Indianapolis, Clarian Health Partners plans to open a 170-bed hospital this December, a suburban complement to the 76-bed hospital it opened last December in Avon. To the south, St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers unveiled a heart center in March, counterbalancing the two stand-alone heart hospitals that sprang up on the north side a few years ago. These projects offer a snapshot of how health care development has progressed over the past few years in central Indiana….

Legislators take moratorium on serious moratorium talk: Effort to curb health care construction much quieter

April 11, 2005

The push to corral health care construction in Indiana returned to the General Assembly with a lower dose of momentum this year. Several bills regulating development in one fashion or another made appearances during the session, but no major initiatives will make it out of the Statehouse, according to advocates on both sides of the issue. Prospects for another push to install a certificate-of-need law or a moratorium next year also appear hazy for now, say legislators who pitched bills…

Hendricks Regional Health out to make name for itself: Hospital on promotional push in fast-growing county Growth spurs advertising

April 11, 2005

When the former Hendricks Community Hospital underwent a name change in 2003, executives embarked on an ambitious advertising campaign to promote the new moniker. Two years later, the modified Hendricks Regional Health has yet to abandon its marketing blitz, although the message has changed. The hospital is wrapping up a year-long promotional push, mainly to alert newcomers to fast-growing Hendricks County of the center’s existence, and will launch a follow-up campaign in the summer. Its efforts to muster additional name…

Health leader likes hands-on approach: Monroe brings vast background of medical service to state commissioner’s role

April 11, 2005

Dr. Judith Monroe’s appointment as commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health returns her to the early days of a practice steeped in public health. This time, though, the Carmel resident won’t be treating patients living in tree houses. That’s right, tree houses. The 52-year-old Dayton, Ohio, native began her medical career in Morgan County, Tenn., in the heart of Appalachia on the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau. Through a National Health Service Corps program, Monroe spent four…

NOTIONS Bruce Hetrick: Sweating the small stuff is worth the trouble

April 11, 2005

Bruce Hetrick has the week off.In his absence,this column, which appeared on July 2, 2001, is being reprinted. Two decades ago, Time magazine quoted a University of Nebraska cardiology professor on the ins and outs of coping with stress. “Rule No. 1 is, don’t sweat the small stuff,” said Dr. Robert S. Eliot. “Rule No. 2 is, it’s all small stuff.” (Another doctor, Richard Carlson, later converted this concept into a series of self-help books.) As a Type A, win-at-all-costs,…

Are you tough enough?: Women learn how to be hardy so they can compete with the guys in any field of endeavor

April 11, 2005

Dr. Mary Reilly sometimes gets emotional on the job. But the emergency physician also knows how to turn it off. “In the middle of a ‘code,’ I can’t be breaking down in tears,” said Reilly, who works with Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Emergency Physicians Inc. “I put a wall up in some situations and try not to think about these people as people. That’s the only way emotionally I can get through [it].” Reilly is among the many women who’ve learned…

VOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: What Hoosiers should know about advance directives

April 11, 2005

While people had sharply divided opions about the Terri Schiavo case, most could agree on one point: It’s a good idea to make sure your wishes about life-prolonging treatments are clearly known. Indiana residents can sign “advance directives” in order to confirm their wishes about life-prolonging treatment and to authorize others to make decisions and give consents on their behalf. Indiana law offers three main types of advance directive: the Living Will, the Health Care Representative Appointment, and the health…

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NOTIONS: Pugilism, Parkinson’s, politics, DNA: a powerful combination set to win

Major Hospital brings physician practices into the fold: Smaller doctor groups find health systems attractive

Degree combines medicine, business: IU grads put in 5 years to earn combo MD/MBA

NOTIONS: Dear Lance: How ’bout beyond-the-bike immortality?

Living wills get surge of interest: Lawyers, caregivers, estate planners field more questions about advance directives in wake of Schiavo case

Taking the pulse of life sciences: Experts weigh in on whether Indiana is keeping up in the economic development race

Clinic predicts Hamilton County will be fertile ground: Doctors relocate reproductive practice to growing area

NOTIONS: Standing face to face with the end of the universe

Heirs spar for exec’s riches: Grandson of Lilly officer who died in ’77 fights widow’s trust

New providers fill up the market for air-rescue services: Indiana sees growth spurt in helicopter transport firms

BEHIND THE NEWS: Guidant defibrillator flap spawns disclosure debate

Competition stakes claim on hospital’s turf: Dialysis center would sit 1 block south of Methodist

EYE ON THE PIE: Lessons from a low-profile death

Health builders thinking small: Local hospital development in for change

Legislators take moratorium on serious moratorium talk: Effort to curb health care construction much quieter

Hendricks Regional Health out to make name for itself: Hospital on promotional push in fast-growing county Growth spurs advertising

Health leader likes hands-on approach: Monroe brings vast background of medical service to state commissioner’s role

NOTIONS Bruce Hetrick: Sweating the small stuff is worth the trouble

Are you tough enough?: Women learn how to be hardy so they can compete with the guys in any field of endeavor

VOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: What Hoosiers should know about advance directives