Nursing home employment struggles with immigration crackdown
More than a quarter of an estimated 4 million nursing assistants, home health aides, personal care aides and other so-called direct care workers are foreign born.
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Fairbanks Foundation awards $13M to create new statewide apprenticeship program
The first students in the Career Apprenticeship Pathway, or INCAP, will start in fall 2026 and split time between school and the workplace.
Komen Tissue Bank hosting breast tissue donation drive ahead of WNBA All-Star festivities
The event, a partnership between the tissue bank and the city’s WNBA All-Star 2025 Host Committee, seeks 500 women to donate breast tissue for cancer research.
11 Eastern Europeans charged in $10.6B Medicare fraud scheme
Prosecutors say the organization bought more than 30 previously legitimate U.S. companies and turned them from lawful businesses into consistent vehicles for fraud.
IU School of Medicine opens new $230M education and research building
The school’s primary classroom and education facility is being moved from its longtime home on the Indianapolis campus to be closer to the new IU Health teaching hospital, set to open in 2027.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says league taking serious look at Achilles tears
The NBA had already convened a panel of experts to study Achilles tendon injuries even before Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton ruptured his in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, Commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday night.
Kimball’s Indy medical solutions unit swings for fences with new Post Road plant
Victory Field, home of the Indianapolis Indians, would just about fit perfectly inside the Jasper-based company’s new 307,000-square-foot facility.
Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton after surgery to repair torn Achilles tendon: ‘I’d do it again’
Haliburton’s surgery to repair the tendon was performed Monday by Dr. Martin O’Malley at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, the Pacers said.
Lilly hosts Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ Q&A on blockbuster weight-loss drug Zepbound
Questions included whether the Indianapolis-based drugmaker is working to improve insurance coverage for the drug and highlighted users’ concerns about comparisons with Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy.
Lilly acquires cardiovascular genetic medicine company for up to $1.3B
Boston-based Verve Therapeutics is a Nasdaq-traded company focused on genetic medicines for cardiovascular disease.
Indianapolis-based startup leans on connections to treat brain diseases
Syndeio Biosciences sees burgeoning potential to treat mental health and cognitive conditions, including Alzheimer’s and depression, with therapies that target the almost countless minuscule brain synapses that give people the ability to think and function.
IU unveils architectural design plan for IU LAB at 16 Tech
The five-story, 150,000 square-foot building will be built next to the Herron School of Art and Design’s Eskenazi Fine Arts Center on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis.
Community Health Network looks to save $10M this year by using AI tools
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.
Power-lifting nurse helps Franciscan center focuses on prevention, wellness for cancer and cardiac disease
The Franciscan Healthy Living Center, which opened in 2020, is designed to help those who’ve been through cancer, heart disease, surgery or other serious conditions improve their health factors, including diet, fitness, sleep and mental health.
Construction on $4.3B downtown IU Health hospital complex nears halfway mark
The 44-acre campus will span approximately eight square blocks in downtown Indianapolis, replacing Methodist and University hospitals.
Kimball Electronics plans to open new manufacturing facility in Indy, add 345 employees
Kimball plans to occupy 307,000 square feet in the 584,820-square-foot Commerce Center Building 1, which was constructed in 2023 on South Post Road.
Reports: Lilly eyes Houston for new $5.9B manufacturing facility
Lilly in February announced plans to add four U.S. manufacturing sites at yet-to-be-determined sites as part of a roughly $27 billion investment.
Hamilton County approves $3.5M for behavioral health urgent care center
The Rely Center will move into a refurbished portion of the Aspire Indiana Health’s facility on Cumberland Road.
Tobias, Lechleiter families donate $20M for clinical innovation, matched by IU Health
The Tobias-Lechleiter Institute will focus on getting more Hoosiers enrolled in clinical trials and advancing medical research at IU Health and the IU School of Medicine.
Biden diagnosed with ‘more aggressive’ form of prostate cancer
Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule was found.