Visiting Nurse Service Inc., a 200-employee agency based in Indianapolis, will operate under the umbrella of Franciscan St. Francis Health, the organizations announced Thursday.
Fort Wayne-based hospital system Parkview Health does not have a hospital in the Indianapolis area, but it is seeking to increase its name recognition in the state’s political center and largest market.
The Franciscan Healthy Living Center, which opened in 2020, is designed to help those who’ve been through cancer, heart disease, surgery or other serious conditions improve their health factors, including diet, fitness, sleep and mental health.
Indiana lawmakers discovered this legislative session that performing major financial surgery on multibillion-dollar nonprofit hospital systems is a motley and entangled task.
Occupational therapists, physical therapists and registered nurses have received payments from the settlement, while almost a third will go toward attorney fees.
The Conrad 30 federal waiver program is a great tool to recruit international physicians to work in underserved areas, but it does not fully address the challenges of retaining physicians in these areas long term.
Dr. Greg Hardin, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine, claims that Franciscan Alliance engaged in conduct harmful to his practice over the course of several years.
In the past five years, the nation’s largest Catholic health system has unloaded more than a dozen hospitals across the country, from New York to Alabama, as it restructures amid a growing tide of red ink.
Multidisciplinary teams composed of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, pharmacists and others have worked to develop best practices for quick recovery from everything from open-heart procedures to gall bladder removal to bariatric surgery.
Hoffmann spends 75% of her time on the road traveling across Indiana leading classes with community partners, including the state chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Indiana University Health’s 70,000-square-foot pharmacy hub and distribution center in Plainfield has enough pills, lotions, and infusible and injectable drugs under one roof to supply its 16 hospitals and hundreds of clinics for weeks.
It’s turnaround time at Riverview Health, the small, 114-year-old hospital system owned by Hamilton County, which is trying to deal with competition from larger health care systems.
Through its Community Health Improvement Department, Franciscan Health for years has tried to provide services that help the refugees overcome some of the enormous challenges they face.
When it comes to who is responsible for the high cost of health care, many of the organizations pointed fingers to different players in the wide-ranging industry.
