One of the toughest runs for the finance industry since the Great Depression didn’t lead to a major shakeup in Indianapolis’
banking landscape. Substitute PNC’s brand for National City’s, and the top eight positions remain unchanged.
Tuesday’s vote will determine if Marion County Health & Hospital Corp. can sell up to $703 million in taxpayer-backed bonds
to replace the county-owned hospital.
Unofficial results from Tuesday night’s special election show more than eight out of 10 Marion County voters supporting a new $754 million hospital for Wishard Health Services.
Paige Dooley, a registered nurse, will become vice president of nursing at Community Hospital East in
Indianapolis on Nov. 16. She will succeed Mary Browning, who is now vice president of nursing for the ambulatory division
of Community Health Network. Melodi Bauer has held the nursing vice presidency in an interim capacity since April 2008.
Dr. H. N. Nagaraja joined Riverview Diabetes and Endocrinology
in Noblesville. He specializes in thyroid conditions.
Dr. Damion M. Harris, an orthopedic surgeon
specializing in shoulders, joined Henry County Center for Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine in New Castle. Harris received
his medical training at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Brock P. Nolan
has joined St. Francis Psychiatric Associates in Indianapolis. Nolan most recently served as medical
director of behavioral health services at Luke Air Force Base in Phoenix.
Dr. Robert
W. Zickler has joined St. Francis Vascular Associates in Indianapolis. He comes to St. Francis from Virginia, where
he was a staff surgeon at Mary Washington Hospital. Zickler focuses on aortic stent grafting, carotid artery surgery, minimally
invasive vein surgery and limb salvage surgery.
Thomas Sparks, a researcher at Indianapolis-based
Dow AgroSciences, was named scientist of the year by R&D Magazine, a trade publication. Sparks won the award for his team’s
work developing pesticides that are more environmentally friendly.
Reuben Kapur has been named
program leader for Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Biology Research Group in the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric
Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
After winning 83-percent support for $754 million hospital, Wishard officials hope to sell bonds, pick construction firm
by year’s end.
Indiana officials appear to be working hard to get our share of the 5 million “green jobs” President
Obama says he’ll create. Sounds like a good idea, except for one problem: No one can really say just what
a green job is.
I am writing because I have closely
followed the debate on health care reform and am questioning some of the decisions being made by our legislators in Congress.
Mike’s Express Carwash uses a lot of water. There’s just no getting around it. So when automated systems engineer
Ryan Binkley looked for ways to conserve resources, he focused on the company’s irrigation systems.
I have to note that Nov. 11 is Veterans Day. It is rightfully a time we thank those among us who have served.
The most obvious use for the old Wishard site is an expansion of the Indiana University School of Medicine, particularly for
medical research space, university administrators said.
Drugmaker and health insurer bemoan aspects of House health reform bill and hope Senate crafts more industry-friendly bill.
After the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a sweeping health care overhaul, leaders of Indiana’s two
largest health care entities turned their hopes to the U.S. Senate to give them a bill more to their liking.
Enrollment in bachelor’s degree programs in agriculture across the country grew by 21.8 percent from 2005 to 2008. Purdue
University has 2,575 ag students this fall, up 40 from last year.
Indiana ranked No. 35—unchanged from last year—on UnitedHealth Foundation’s annual state-by-state ranking of overall public health. While Indiana ranks higher than it did three years ago, the state actually fell five places since UnitedHealth started compiling the ranking in 1990. Since then, obesity in Indiana has surged 130 percent while smoking rates have been stuck for a decade at 26 percent. UnitedHealth’s report says Indiana has good rates of health insurance coverage and does a good job of limiting infectious diseases. But the state suffers from poor air quality and very low public-health funding. The UnitedHealth Foundation is an arm of Minnesota-based health insurer UnitedHealth Group.
Researchers at Purdue University have shown how an experimental drug might restore the function of nerves damaged in spinal-cord injuries and could also treat multiple sclerosis. The experimental compound, 4-aminopyridine-3-methyl hydroxide, has been shown to restore function to damaged axons—slender fibers that extend from nerve cells and transmit electrical impulses in the spinal cord. The researchers’ findings, based on experiments with guinea pig spinal-cord tissue, appeared online Nov. 18 in the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Dr. John Hayes, vice president of Eli Lilly and Co.’s research laboratories and the company’s neuroscience branding leader, will deliver a keynote speech on the possibilities for neuroscience development in Indiana as part of the Neuroscience Summit organization by the Indiana Health Industry Forum. The summit will occur Dec. 4 at University Place Conference Center at IUPUI.
The merged operations of Carmel-based BehaviorCorp and Anderson-based Center for Mental Health will adopt the name Aspire Indiana Behavioral Health System on Jan. 1. The new organization has more than 400 mental health professionals and supporting staff members. Aspire Indiana will serve primarily patients in Madison, Hamilton, Boone and northern Marion counties.
Here is a list of Indianapolis-area not-for-profit organizations and the things each needs most.
Charities in Indiana have reported increased requests for help with rent, utility costs, food and other services.
An elegant Old Northside mansion known as the Yellow Rose Inn has a new owner with plans to discontinue a bed-and-breakfast
operation.
