Pioneering heart surgeon John N. Pittman, a Carmel resident who helped establish the cardiovascular program at Indianapolis’ Methodist Hospital, died on Christmas Day. He was 81.
It's not just Walgreens and CVS that have retail health clinics. Five central Indiana Kroger supermarkets now also offer health care via a Kroger subsidiary, Tennessee-based The Little Clinic. The latest Little Clinic opened Dec. 16 at a Kroger store on College Mall Road in Bloomington. Little Clinics are also in three Indianapolis Krogers—on Southport […]
The state Medicaid program will pay $24 million more due to the nursing home building boom that occurred in 2014, according to an analysis by accounting firm Myers & Stauffer. The nursing home industry will use that figure to once again argue for halt to new construction.
When patients get to edit their medical records, they tend to leave out important stuff. That was the conclusion of researchers at the Regenstrief Institute, the Indiana University School of Medicine and Eskenazi Health, after they conducted the first experiment ever in which real patients were allowed to control what parts of their medical records […]
IU Health wants to consolidate its University and Methodist hospitals into one downtown location, a plan that would see one or both facilities close or be converted to another use.
Buoyed by the early success of suburban co-working hub Launch Fishers, a group of business backers in Zionsville is lining up support for a similar initiative there.
Five Indianapolis-area hospitals stand to lose more than $7 million in Medicare payments as a penalty for having rates of infections and patient injuries that run higher than most hospitals nationwide.
Round 2 of the fight over a nursing home construction ban will commence in January when the Indiana General Assembly convenes for its new session. Sen. Pat Miller, R-Indianapolis, told IBJ she will introduce a bill that would institute a three-year “moratorium” on construction of skilled nursing facilities. The moratorium is widely favored by nursing […]
The two sides duking it out over a construction ban on nursing homes spent more than $475,000 over six months to win lawmakers to their sides—a spike of 37 percent over previous years. And that kind of high-stakes fight is about to happen again.
Just five days after Simon Property Group spun off its strip centers and smaller malls into Washington Prime Group, executives began plotting a multibillion-dollar acquisition.
The holidays are looming but that doesn't mean that every arts group or performer is going into holiday hibernation. Here are some non-shopping options.
Keith Davis has been named the first director of Indiana University’s Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology, which will help professors at IU’s Bloomington campus commercialize research discoveries. Davis was a professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Before that, he directed the Plant Biotechnology Center at Ohio State University, and agricultural biotechnology […]
