Tag Archives: IU Health

Pete Buttigieg has thrown his hat in the ring for the 2020 presidential race; City of Bloomington and Monroe County officials approved the first expenditures of the local Food and Beverage Tax; The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission is asking for more information from two vendors, vying to oversee the redevelopment of the old IU Health hospital site; Hoosier Hills Foodbank announced today they are …

On August 27, Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan sponsored a candidate and community health care forum on the Franklin College campus. Moderated by Dr. Rob Stone, the panel included local health care experts Dr. Mary Beth Hensley and Michael Kolenda Ph.D., the Director of WindRose Health Network. Both Indiana 9th Congressional District candidates, Liz Watson and Trey Hollingsworth, were …

The city of Bloomington released its proposed annual budget on Friday. The 300-page document outlines 90 million dollars worth of expenditures. A majority of those funds are going to staff salaries. The proposed budget has to be approved by the city council by department, before it is sent to the state. The budget for 2019 includes a $6 million overall …

Residences and businesses across South Central Indiana lost power this afternoon. Duke Energy reported an estimated 46,000 customers affected by the outage- 15,000 of those in Monroe County, and another 6,000 across Lawrence and Bartholomew counties. Many traffic lights in downtown Bloomington are offline and downtown businesses were without power for four hours, including Bloomington City Hall. Power was out …

Our featured guests are Brandon Heinbaugh and Jesse Elkins from Positive Link IU Health Bloomington Hospital.  Brandon has worked in the health and wellness field since 2014, with much of that time being focused in the field of HIV and AIDS. Brandon recently joined the IU Health Positive Link team back in December as a Health Educator working in prevention and …

Join us, as we interview Bloomington North High School counselor Greg Chaffin. He helps transgender students navigate the school system. BloomingOUT hosts Frankie, Kevin, and Just are joined in the studio by Jesse Elkins, a PrEP (Positive Link Prevention Team) Navigator, who has recently shifted gears to join the HIV prevention movement with IU Health Bloomington. Featured music comes from the …

A new report finds that working families in Indiana are more likely to be poor than in neighboring states.  The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority is extending the application deadline for its winter assistance program to June.  In its meeting last night, the Bloomington City Council again took up an agreement between the city and IU Health to buy the IU …

After IU Health announced its sale of the downtown Bloomington hospital for $6.5 million to the city of Bloomington, the city contracted the Urban Land Institute to put forward recommendations on what to do with the 24-acre downtown site. As City of Bloomington Communications Director Yael Ksander tells WFHB News Director Wes Martin, the Urban Land Institute is putting forward …

The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission approved spending $34 million to construct Switchyard Park yesterday; The Commission also previewed the city’s contract with Indiana University Health to buy the IU hospital site on Second Street; City of Bloomington Utilities Director Vic Kelson says the last stage of the south-central sewer interceptor project will be expedited; The Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Policy Committee has …

An armed gunman was reported on IU’s campus yesterday afternoon; State Rep. Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington) toured logging areas of Yellowwood State Forest last week, to evaluate the logging of the back country wilderness; A surveying and land-use contractor hired by the city of Bloomington to evaluate what to do with the IU Health downtown hospital has released its recommendations; Wain Martin, a …