Richmond-based Reid Health has announced efforts to reduce costs and streamline operations through a restructuring plan. The health system blamed a widening gap between rising expenses and reduced reimbursement rates from insurance providers for the move.... Read More
Life sciences diagnostic company Amplified Sciences has received a $400,000 grant to develop testing to improve the early detection of pancreatic cancer. The grant will help support the procurement of banked patient samples and clinical trials.... Read More
The partners are looking for ways to help physicians connect their patients with resources to address social drivers of health — such as income, access to healthy food and housing — which the National Academy of Medicine says determine 80% of health outcomes.... Read More
The $10 million center is expect to open in late 2024 and provide a resource in educators seeking to meet the demands of a national nursing shortage.... Read More
The Health Professions Center, where the university’s College of Nursing and Health Professions resides, will get an $18.5 million dollar facelift, including a refreshed interior and equipment to enhance student learning.... Read More
A split ruling from the Indiana Supreme Court has left the door open to both individual future challenges and further restrictions to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Now, some legal experts are warning that Hoosiers could directly petition the courts.... Read More
The model proposed by the new law is part of a federal initiative to coordinate care and improve access to mental health care and can be broken down into three parts: someone to contact, someone to respond and a safe place to go for help.... Read More
A West Lafayette-based startup is using a global accelerator to help fuel growth. Neurava is one of 61 companies from around the world to showcase its medical technology as part of the MedTech Innovator, billed as the largest accelerator of med tech companies.... Read More
The philanthropic arm of Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. has awarded half a million dollars to an Indianapolis not-for-profit for their work connecting transgender and gender nonbinary people with HIV to comprehensive care.... Read More
In what is possibly the first lawsuit filed following the enactment of Indiana’s new statute restricting physician noncompetes, an Allen County doctor is suing his former employer to stop the enforcement of a noncompete clause.... Read More
A study from the University of Washington released Monday shows maternal mortality rates more than doubled in some states between 1999 and 2019, with sharp increases for some racial and ethnic groups.... Read More
The PACE program seeks to help seniors will long-term illnesses live independently for as long as possible.... Read More
The federal grant programs allows states to have flexibility when tailoring funding to services. Indiana's allotment will head toward providing food, clothing, transportation and shelter to survivors in crisis. The state hopes it will offset operational costs and other funding can go toward bolstering and supporting other services.... Read More
Blackford Hospital, a 15-bed, rural hospital in Hartford City, plans to close its emergency room and end inpatient care services, citing a reduction in patient volume. IU Health said Monday it did not know the number of employees who will be impacted.... Read More
Neighborhood Health hopes to meet the needs of an underserved population and encourage job growth through its Oxford Project.... Read More
Last year, as Indiana’s neighbors limited abortion, Hoosier providers performed hundreds more procedures than is typical, state reports released Friday shows. But after the state passed its own near-total ban — despite a statewide preliminary inunction — procedures dropped.... Read More
Hendricks' new president and CEO is the first woman named to the leadership position in the health system's 61-year history.... Read More
Indiana’s near-total abortion ban that prohibits the procedure with only narrow exceptions will go back into effect after the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the law Friday. But justices left open the possibility for other challenges in the future.... Read More
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita appears to be threatening legal action after just three medical providers responded to a request for details on care for transgender minors he made earlier this year. The move comes as Indiana’s ban on...... Read More
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office, through its Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, joined more than a dozen states and the federal government Wednesday in a nationwide enforcement action against 78 individuals charged with $2.5 billion in Medicaid Fraud.... Read More
