Indiana news and information

Job cuts in healthcare are hardly rare these days, but St. Vincent Health's newly announced layoffs in Indiana will certainly grab some eyeballs.
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For four months, an Indianapolis hospital has put Illinois Medicaid on the spot. It wants the state's health care program for low-income patients to pay for multi-organ transplants for two women, risky and rare operations that can cost as much as $1 million.
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The Indiana Legislature passed a bill this session establishing medical orders signed by a doctor that are aimed at creating consistency in the healthcare system for those approaching the end of life, whether from old age or disease.
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Healthcare advocates in Indiana are looking at an improved training system for physicians and an expanded concept of what it means to see a doctor to help serve what's expected to be a crush of new patients seeking care starting next year.
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The American Osteopathic Association named Adrienne White-Faines to succeed John Crosby as executive director. Crosby is retiring after serving as the Chicago-based association's executive director since 1997. White-Faines, 53, is scheduled to join the AOA next month. She previously worked...
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Vincent Caponi has been named executive chairman of the board for St. Vincent Health in Indianapolis and senior VP of Ascension Health Alliance, the St. Louis-based Catholic health system that sponsors St. Vincent Health.
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iSalus Healthcare named Kimberly Poland to the newly created role of VP of client engagement, effective June 1.
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Franciscan Alliance is looking for another healthcare network to take over its two hospitals in the south suburbs of Chicago, as consolidation continues to sweep through the Chicago market.
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Indiana will likely stop defending a law that stripped Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood after the Supreme Court declined to hear the case Tuesday, an attorney who represents the nation's largest abortion provider said.
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Otis Bowen, who overhauled Indiana's tax system as governor before helping oversee the federal response to the burgeoning AIDS epidemic during President Ronald Reagan's second term, has died. He was 95.
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