LEADING QUESTIONS: Wishard’s top doc stays true to roots
How can practicing medicine prepare you for a CEO post? And why is it smart to continue seeing patients once you get the top job? Dr. Lisa Harris will see you now with answers.
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Wishard gives IT firms in health and life sciences a place to test products
TechPoint-led initiative is meant to help bring inventions to market by giving them a trial in real-world setting.
Duke/Browning team to develop building at new Wishard
The team, which plans to build an office building in the 200,000-square-foot range, beat out six other groups that submitted proposals.
Basiles donate to new Wishard Hospital
$300,000 from the local philanthropists is the hospital’s first naming-rights gift.
Med school students share their stories
Five students at Indiana University School of Medicine contemplate whether to opt for family practice or a specialty.
Building binge hasn’t crimped hospital profits
Indianapolis-area hospitals spent billions on construction in the past decade and increasingly tried to poach patients from one another’s territories. Yet last year—one of the worst economically in recent history—21 of 26 hospitals still were able to show operating profits.
Poor economy keeping Wishard project costs down
Contractors starving for work are submitting more competitive bids, which so far has led to about $10 million in savings, hospital official says.
Wishard Health Services rewards carpoolers
Landing the best parking spot doesn’t always require getting a big promotion.
Wishard construction bids starting to flow
About $72 million in bids have been awarded so far for the $754 million Wishard Hospital project—ahead of schedule
and under budget, for the time being—including demolition and foundation work.
Ceremony marks start on new Wishard hospital
Construction of a new Wishard Memorial Hospital was hailed as a great legacy for Indianapolis as a formal groundbreaking was
held for the $754 million project.
Wishard Hospital project is life blood to contractors
Replacing the existing Wishard Memorial Hospital is so critical to the well-being of the sickly construction sector that one
industry official likens the project to a "lifeline."
Wishard Foundation appoints new leader
Ernest Vargo II’s Vargo’s top priority will be guiding the foundation’s $50 million capital campaign for the construction
of the new, $754 million Wishard Hospital.
Wishard debt $80M below ‘best’ scenario
Historically low bond rates will help the parent corporation of Wishard Health Services build hospital for less money
than expected.
Wishard parent ‘ecstatic’ about cheap debt – so far
The Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County got good news in its first round of borrowing to finance a new Wishard
Hospital: so far, it is paying less than planned.
Wishard construction project enjoying cheap debt
The Health & Hospital Corp. of Marion County got good news in its first round of borrowing to finance a new Wishard
hospital: The cost is less than expected.
Building trades leaders flock to Wishard meetings
Hundreds of potential contractors turned out for informational meetings this week about construction work on a new Wishard Memorial Hospital.
KATTERJOHN: Indianapolis is a 21st century schizoid town
With apologies to the rock group King Crimson, who recorded a song in the late ’60s called “21st Century
Schizoid Man,” I’d like to draw attention to our city’s split personality. Good Indianapolis.
Bad Indianapolis.
IUPUI mulling options for old Wishard Hospital site
The most obvious use for the old Wishard site is an expansion of the Indiana University School of Medicine, particularly for
medical research space, university administrators said.
Work on new Wishard Hospital set to start next week
After winning 83-percent support for $754 million hospital, Wishard officials hope to sell bonds, pick construction firm
by year’s end.
New Wishard gets overwhelming approval in referendum
Unofficial results from Tuesday night’s special election show more than eight out of 10 Marion County voters supporting a new $754 million hospital for Wishard Health Services.