The latest physician recruitment survey from Texas-based Merritt Hawkins shows three-quarters of all physician searches include a performance bonus for the doctor. Fewer than 10 percent of those bonuses are tied to something other than volume of procedures.
Battered by stagnant population growth and blue-collar job loss, Howard Regional Health is merging with Indiana University Health—a deal that reflects the challenges faced by hospitals in Indiana’s outlying cities.
Merchants’ Square shopping center, built in 1970 as the enclosed Keystone Square Mall and redeveloped into an open-air center and renamed in the mid-1990s, is riddled with vacancies and bracing for another high-profile departure, despite its prime location.
Community Health Network has embarked on a strategy to become a low-cost, high-output machine in order to survive the coming harsh economic environment that an aging population and expanded health care coverage promises for hospitals.
More agencies will be vying for a piece of the city’s income-tax revenue as next year’s budget process begins. But with that money flat-lined next year, city leaders say there may not be enough to share.
Indianapolis leaders are hoping a new plan launched by Mayor Greg Ballard’s administration to transform the area northwest of downtown into a high-tech job and life-sciences research magnet will turn the long-discussed idea into a reality.
Fort Wayne-based Star Financial Bank, which is trying to recover some of the more than $23 million it loaned for the condominium project, submitted the only bid for it on Wednesday. The bank said several potential buyers are interested in the property.
Officials on Thursday shared details of a long-term plan to redevelop an industrial stretch northwest of downtown with the goal of attracting hundreds of residents and dozens of high-tech companies to the area.
The city of Indianapolis plans to announce a major initiative to turn a stretch of 16th Street northwest of downtown into a hub for biotechnology and other high-tech companies.
Dr. Cherri D. Hobgood has been named professor and chair of the Indiana University School of Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine. She will assume her new duties July 11, pending approval by the IU board of trustees. Most recently, Hobgood served as an associate professor and vice chairwoman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She succeeds Dr. Rolly McGrath, who has served as the emergency medicine chairman since 1999.
Indianapolis-based TriMedx, which helps hospitals and health care facilities keep their medical equipment running as it ages, in part by helping to train the hospital’s own staff to do maintenance and repair, named two new directors of sales. Al D’Andrea, based in Chicago, previously worked at MedGyn Products, Medical Outsourcing Services, McKesson and Baxter Healthcare. Glenn Phillips, based in Philadelphia, previously worked at NightHawk Radiology Services, Siemens, Elekta Oncology Systems and Philips. TriMedX is a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Ascension Health, the parent organization of Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health.
Mayor Greg Ballard wisely put a spotlight on the reintegration of ex-offenders into society when he created the city’s Office of Re-entry in 2008. The effort had piles of promise.
Teen's brainstorm results in internationally recognized not-for-profit that promotes computer literacy and safety, including programs for financial literacy and computer repurposing for donation to Indianapolis areas in need of the technology.
At a time when the not-for-profit sector is buzzing with terms like “scaling impact” and “venture philanthropy,” few native not-for-profits have sown seeds outside Indiana. Leaders and funders emphasize the need the serve the local market first.
When schools have well over half of their students not even passing end-of-course assessments for core subjects, how can they prepare students for life in the real world?
The state is moving to adopt a system that ensures more high school graduates can perform in college or on the job.
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. agreed to acquire CareMore Health Group to expand Medicare coverage in California, Arizona and Nevada. The insurer paid almost $800 million, according to people familiar with the deal.
Colts pony up $400,000 as part of bid package to bring Big Ten Football Championship to Indy from 2012-15.
Colts' owner Jim Irsay likely will score more than 10 percent of the total economic impact from the Big Ten Championship football game with little capital outlay.
