Community Health Network said income from operations fell 76% last year, even as the number of admissions, ER visits, physician visits and outpatient surgeries all increased. It attributed the drop primarily to higher salaries, benefits and supplies.... Read More
Terre Haute-based Hamilton Center is raising its minimum wage to $17.75 per hour, the organization announced Thursday. The nonprofit regional behavioral health system's CEO, Melvin Burks, said the change comes amid clinical staff shortages.... Read More
One hundred Indianapolis police officers are donning virtual reality headsets as a method to battle the dangerous levels of stress that come with their job. A Black female entrepreneur is leading the charge with her startup, Peak Mind.... Read More
Senators and health care stakeholders alike seemed unable to find much agreement Wednesday on how to address Indiana’s health care costs, or even how to measure and compare those costs to neighboring states. ... Read More
Warsaw-based medtech startup GemViz has received a $20,000 investment from Indianapolis-based Elevate Ventures. GemViz said the funding will be used to further develop its software that seeks to improve diagnostic accuracy and optimize treatment plans.... Read More
Eskenazi Health is launching a $60 million campaign to support its efforts to reduce health disparities and improve life expectancy across central Indiana. Beyond Barriers aims to address social drivers that affect the health and well-being of residents.... Read More
Zionsville-based GeniPhys has completed a $6 million Series A round of funding, the company announced Wednesday. GeniPhys has developed a material known as Collymer, a highly-purified form of collagen that is used to support tissue generation.... Read More
The USDA has awarded a $650,000 grant to West Lafayette-based NutraMaize, which has developed nutritionally enhanced orange corn. The company said the grant will be used to demonstrate the benefits of feeding its orange corn to poultry on a commercial scale.... Read More
A Senate proposal with multiple provisions to ease the health care process looks a lot simpler following a flurry of House committee amendments.... Read More
Kevin Speer, the president and CEO of Hendricks Regional Health, one of central Indiana’s largest suburban health systems, has been named to lead Ascension St. Vincent, a larger system that spans much of the state. Speer will take his new job May 1.... Read More
Three Indianapolis-based nonprofits have announced a partnership to study the experiences of pregnant and postpartum women in Indiana Health Fund's medical debt relief program. The program was established to help prevent families from facing financial hardship or medical bankruptcy because of overwhelming medical expenses.... Read More
In a press release, Ascension said that Nalli “will be transitioning out of his role” and that it was “grateful to Jonathan for his contributions.” It did not give any details of Nalli’s departure or say whether other members of his team are also leaving.... Read More
Carmel-based health care technology startup Blue Agilis Corp. has secured a $2.5 million round of seed funding from one of the nation’s largest health care payers. The funding round closed on March 10, said Blue Agilis co-founder and CEO Nadia Adams. ... Read More
Franciscan Health Crown Point has partnered with one of the top children’s hospitals in Illinois to boost its care for premature babies or newborns with high-risk complications. ... Read More
Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola is partnering with Trine University to support students in Trine's new nursing program. The partnership includes the construction of a new education and innovation facility on the hospital campus.... Read More
Shares of Elanco Animal Health dropped 4% on Wednesday to a new all-time low after Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the company’s credit rating. Moody’s action pushed Elanco’s credit rating further into “junk bond” territory.... Read More
The former president and first lady of Indiana University have gifted $500,00 to IU Health. The gift from Michael McRobbie and Laurie Burns McRobbie will support behavioral health services at the IU Regional Academic Health Center in Bloomington.... Read More
Professors from Purdue University and Indiana University are teaming up to find new ways to assist in the care of babies born with heart defects. Specifically, Pavlos Vlachos and Mark Payne are using a new tool to address hypoplastic left heart syndrome.... Read More
Suicides are climbing faster among young people than adults, triggering alarm bells that “what we’re doing isn’t working,” says University of Notre Dame psychologist Theodore Beauchaine. He’s co-leading a mission to reinvent teen suicide prevention efforts.... Read More
An Australian biotech company that has its U.S. headquarters in Fishers has received additional approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Telix Pharmaceuticals says its lead prostate cancer imaging product, Illuccix, is now authorized to...... Read More
