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.
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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.
2017 Health Care Heroes: Tom & Pam Miltner
Tom and Pat Miltner have co-chaired the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure three times, including in 2016, its 25th anniversary. They were the first married couple to co-chair the event and Pam, 63, was the first survivor to chair it.
2017 Health Care Heroes: Pam Gavin
Pam Gavin has more than 5,000 volunteer hours under her belt, many of them spent at Peyton Manning Children's Hospital, where she specializes in helping children feel at ease.
2017 Health Care Heroes: Kirsten Tragesser
Kirsten Tragesser has had two careers: the one that came before she lost her 2-year-old daughter, Maddie, to lung disease, and the one she’s dedicated herself to ever since.
2017 Health Care Heroes: David Cravotta
Speech pathologist David Cravotta and his co-workers at Hendricks Regional Health troubleshoot and find solutions for problems with swallowing, voice and speech and language issues, and cognitive impairment.
2017 Health Care Heroes: Lisa Covarrubias
What sets Lisa Covarrubias apart, her colleagues said, isn’t just the time she spends tending to the health care needs of the people she sees, but her willingness to help ease their other burdens.