Healing & Treatment Tips

Over the past few weeks, Eli Lilly and Company and the Lilly Foundation partnered with Eskenazi Health to celebrate the annual Lilly Global Day of Service where Eli Lilly volunteers wrote personal “thank you” cards to Eskenazi Health essential workers and made masks for patients and families.

With the open enrollment period for 2021 health insurance plans beginning Nov. 1, Eskenazi Health encourages anyone in need of health insurance to take advantage of open enrollment and learn about the various health coverage plans available. Open enrollment in the marketplace runs from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15.

The Eskenazi Health Foundation Board of Directors has approved a $300,000 grant to support a new housing rights and eviction helpline. The Eskenazi Health Medical-Legal Partnership’s Housing Rights & Eviction Helpline is a partnership between Eskenazi Health and Indiana Legal Services, a not-for-profit law firm and the largest provider of free civil legal assistance to eligible low-income people throughout the state of Indiana.

In her expanded leadership role, Rogers will continue Eskenazi Health’s commitment to fiscal responsibility while fostering strategic growth and improvement initiatives and further enhancing partnerships between finance and clinical and operational leaders.

Eskenazi Health Hoosier Heartland Healing Collaborative (HHHC), a new Eskenazi Health-led program in partnership with Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) and funded, in part, by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation, aims to equip the community at large with skills proven to aid in alleviating trauma and secondary trauma. The first cohort will begin Wednesday, with additional cohorts planned for 2021.

Eskenazi Health is encouraging all patients to receive the flu vaccine this winter. This is especially important as COVID-19 cases have been projected to rise at the same time influenza season begins.

The Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital and Eskenazi Health downtown campus was recently recognized as a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation.

As unlikely as this may seem, room 8209 at the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital was a very lively and entertaining place to be a few weeks ago.

In observance of the Labor Day holiday on Monday, certain Eskenazi Health departments will either be closed or observe alternate hours.

What became a precarious and terrifying journey began on March 15 with an off and on fever, along with some minor gastrointestinal discomfort. An occupational health appointment took place a few days later followed by an Eskenazi Health telemedicine visit with a primary care physician who directed the patient to stay home and remain hydrated. Natalie Fitzgerald had no idea then that she would soon be in grave danger and that an incredibly intense two-week fight for her life versus the dreaded coronavirus was on the horizon.

Eskenazi Health has been certified as Obstetric Level of Care III and Neonatal Level of Care III in accordance with the Indiana State Department of Health’s Perinatal Level of Care Program. According to program guidelines, a Level III facility is “equipped to care for complex maternal medical conditions and obstetric complications as well as infants requiring neonatal intensive care.”