The addition would more than double the square footage of the facility and allow for expanded patient and staff services, according to a petition filed with the city’s Department of Metropolitan Development.
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The locations include six pediatric practices and one OB/GYN practice in Anderson, Greenwood, Indianapolis and Kokomo.
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Derek B. Groves will join Community Health Network Foundation in May as part of a planned leadership transition. He will succeed longtime CEO Joyce Irwin.
Community Health has reached an agreement with the city to make annual payments over the next 25 years instead of paying property taxes on its new six-story, 200-bed hospital tower
During Irwin’s time with Community, the Foundation has raised more than $137 million in donations to be distributed to programs across Community Health Network.
He succeeds longtime leader Bryan Mills, who announced his retirement earlier this year after more than 40 years working for Community.
Mills joined Community in 1985 when it was a single hospital. Today, it operates five acute-care hospitals (with a sixth in the works), a cardiovascular hospital, a recovery center, three rehabilitation hospitals and a freestanding behavioral health hospital.
While many hospital systems are using some form of artificial intelligence to streamline administrative tasks, some, like Community, are taking it a step further, using it to inform some aspects of patient care.
The hospital is expected to treat conditions including major depression, anxiety disorders, suicidal thoughts, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia.
The Carmel center, which opened Monday, has 17 infusion rooms, eight rooms for clinical visits, a procedure room and a pharmacy.
Community and Lifepoint Health operate three hospitals together in the Indianapolis metropolitan area.
The amount is in addition to the $345 million that Community Health Network paid in December 2023 to settle much of the case with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Community Health said Humana intentionally withheld reimbursement for outpatient prescription drugs provided to Humana’s Medicare Advantage members between Jan. 1, 2018, and Dec. 31, 2022.
The Indianapolis-based hospital system wants to add 34,645 square feet to its MD Anderson Cancer Center at 7979 Shadeland Ave., on the Community Hospital North campus.
Despite the decrease, Community Health Network saw an increase in admissions, emergency visits, deliveries and physician outpatient visits during the first six months of 2024.
Community Health Network’s announcement this month that it plans to open a $335 million campus near U.S. 31 and 196th Street in Westfield marks the latest entry into the crowded Hamilton County hospital market.
Community Health Network has agreed to pay the United States government $345 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a years-long scheme to recruit physicians and pay them huge salaries and bonuses in return for “downstream referrals” on medical procedures.
The move follows pushback by several neighborhood groups on the north side who expressed concern about the city’s plan, which could rely heavily on the Midtown tax-increment financing district to repay bonds issued for the acquisition.
Community Health Network said Thursday that operating income fell 38% in the first nine months of the year as higher expenses ate into the bottom line.
About 99% of pharmacists who responded to a recent survey by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists said they are experiencing drug shortages. About a third said the shortages are leading to rationing, delaying or canceling treatments or procedures.
The Indianapolis-based hospital system broke ground Tuesday on the project at 1550 E. County Line Road. The work is expected to take 12 to 15 months to complete.
An Indianapolis woman is suing Community Health Network after the hospital system mailed her test results to the wrong person and that person posted the information on Facebook.
