2019 Health Care Heroes: Clinic cares for Hamilton County’s poor
In a county known for its affluence, the clinic has become a lifeline for the working poor and the small businesses that employ them.
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2019 Health Care Heroes: Team helps frail elderly avoid hospitalization
OPTIMISTIC, a project of Dr. Kathleen Unroe and researchers at the Regenstrief Institute, gives frail nursing home patients the medical care they need without moving them to a hospital.
2019 Health Care Heroes: Internships for the disabled put desirable jobs within reach
A partnership forged six years ago to match disabled college students with paid internships has blossomed into the Eskenazi Health Initiative for Empowerment and Economic Independence.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Elisabeth von der Lohe
Dr. Elisabeth von der Lohe started a women’s heart clinic at IU Health’s Methodist Hospital in 1998, an effort that gained traction as recognition grew nationally that diagnosing and treating heart disease in women and men weren’t one and the same.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Paula Gustafson
Dr. Paula Gustafson is a legend of sorts in Shelby County, where she’s both pediatrician and sleuth.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Krista Brucker
Dr. Krista Brucker's mission is to rescue the opioid abusers who crowd the Eskenazi Health emergency department every day.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Riley Precision Genomics Program
Kids with aggressive or recurring cancers have a new team looking out for them at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Franciscan Hospice House
The opening of the Franciscan Hospice House in 2015 gave the terminally ill a home-like place to die with dignity.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Robert Batler
Dr. Robert Batler learned of a more effective method for early detection of prostate cancer and brought it to central Indiana.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Crooked Creek Food Pantry
Organizers of the Crooked Creek Food Pantry estimated they would serve 200 families a month when the pantry opened in 2015. At last count, 1,200 families a month shop there, filling their carts with mostly healthy food options, at no cost.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Pediatric Center of Hope
The Pediatric Center of Hope starts picking up the pieces for sexually abused children the minute they walk into the exam room.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Nurse-Family Partnership
The Nurse-Family Partnership pairs Medicaid-eligible, first-time mothers-to-be with registered nurses who coach them through their pregnancy and beyond.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Bud Swineford
Bud Swineford is in his 25th year of door-to-door fundraising for the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Indiana Chapter.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Prenatal mentoring boosts babies, families
Community Achievement in Health Care Nurse-Family Partnership Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana has lofty goals, like lowering the state’s unacceptably high infant mortality rate and breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Those are ambitious—some might say impossible—challenges. But a program Goodwill introduced in Indianapolis in 2011 is working […]
2018 Health Care Heroes: Emma Stumpf
Teenage cancer patient Emma Stumpf is on a mission to share with others the relief she finds in art.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Denise Whitfield
The Pet-a-Pet program, staffed by dogs who brighten people’s day, is a happy mash-up of Denise Whitfield’s care for patients and her interest in training and showing Shetland Sheepdogs.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Joani Rothenberg
St. Vincent art therapist Joani Rothenberg helps patients lose themselves in the creative process.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Greg Denniston
Greg Denniston is a certified recovery specialist at Aspire Indiana, a job he found the hard way, part of a long journey that started with a mental breakdown in 1985.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Paige Dooley
Paige Dooley brings passion, enthusiasm to patients and co-workers at Community Hospital East.
2017 Health Care Heroes: Lee Neff
Lee Neff honors the memory of her son Philip and makes a difference in the lives of others by volunteering at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health.