Evansville has been named the state’s latest—and largest—Clean Community by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The designation recognizes Indiana municipalities that have taken steps to make their communities cleaner and healthier.... Read More
Hospital stays often involve multiple sticks and blood draws. Now, a Fort Wayne based healthcare system is using a new tool to help reduce the amount of sticks a patient experiences.... Read More
The Indiana Department of Insurance has launched the Indiana All Payer Claims Database website, a highly anticipated legislative effort to provide transparency to health care costs and allow consumers to compare prices across multiple health systems.... Read More
A $53,000 grant from Bethany Legacy Foundation will help a pregnancy and counseling services center in Madison better serve clients coping with adverse child experiences. Life Choices Clinic will use the funds to establish a new staff position to use...... Read More
Some of Indiana’s not-for-profit hospitals appear to have stalled when it comes to providing charitable care, though health care systems continue to send thousands of Hoosiers to court over unpaid sums as small as $250. Federal and state regulators have...... Read More
A startup founded by a Notre Dame alum who leveraged the university’s IDEA Center to further develop his company’s sleep aid device has secured a $500,000 investment. Sleep Easy Technology CEO Anthony Esplin plans to use the funds to promote...... Read More
Plaintiffs rejected a state motion to reinstate its authority to impose premium-like charges on Medicaid beneficiaries under the Healthy Indiana Plan late Friday, urging the court to reject the state’s arguments.... Read More
Trilogy Health Services, one of the Midwest’s largest senior-living companies, is growing in Indiana again. The Louisville-based company said this month it plans to expand the number of senior residences at its Prairie Lakes health campus in...... Read More
The Indy Chamber has lobbied unsuccessfully since 2018 to raise the state’s cigarette tax, and it is ready to give it another go in the 2025 legislative session. The chamber held a panel discussion this week to help prime the issue. ... Read More
Four medical and agbioscience researchers at Purdue University are receiving extra funding for their projects thanks to a grant from the Trask Innovation Fund. In total, the Trask fund is giving $175,000 to the four separate projects. ... Read More
Community Health Network saw an increase in admissions, emergency visits, deliveries and physician outpatient visits during the first six months of 2024. Yet, the Indianapolis-based hospital system saw its operating income drop 44% during the period.... Read More
The Healthcare Begins with Me campaign features a website that includes stories and videos about health care learning opportunities in northeast Indiana and online games to learn more about various occupations. ... Read More
In defense of its lawsuit against the state health department, a South Bend-based anti-abortion group doubled down in new court filings that related medical records do not compromise patient privacy and should be made available to the public.... Read More
Pickleball is one of the fastest-growing sports in the country, and now two Hoosiers are making sure players can rally no matter what Indiana weather brings. Ron Brock and Dave Gilreath founded wealth management company Sheaff Brock decades ago, and now have another project cooking in the kitchen. “We bounce different ideas off one another […]... Read More
A national hospice care provider has agreed to pay a multimillion dollar settlement in response to allegations it submitted false claims for services at several U.S. locations, including one in South Bend. Gentiva has agreed to pay $19.43 million to resolve...... Read More
Work on Indiana University Health’s $4.3 billion downtown hospital campus is set to be finished in late 2027. Officials with IU Health noted the new hospital, with three 16-story patient towers, should receive its top beam—or be “topped out”—next spring.... Read More
GeoH Inc., a home care software-as-a-service company headquartered in Indianapolis, has closed on a $3 million series seed plus round of funding, the company announced Thursday. The round was led by a $2 million contribution from Boomerang Ventures in Indy.... Read More
Bowen Center cuts the ribbon Thursday on a new mental health crisis center in Pierceton. The new center will be open 24 hours a day to address all type of mental health episodes.... Read More
Shares of Indianapolis-based drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. continued a two-day slide Thursday, falling about 6% at close on news that Swiss competitor Roche announced positive results from an early-stage study on its own obesity drug.... Read More
Several nursing home operators in the state say they haven’t been paid for their work since the state transitioned to managed care for certain Medicaid services on July 1, marking two weeks in limbo for providers in the PathWays to Aging program. ... Read More
