When the Arnett-Crockett clinic saw its first patient in 1922, it made history.

As one of the first multispecialty clinics in the nation, it was truly a revolutionary concept in healthcare.

Dr. Arett Campbell “A.C.” Arnett believed that by bringing physicians of multiple specialties together under one roof, they could deliver a better healthcare experience. His idea for the clinic took root during WWI, when he collaborated with the physicians who would go on to found the renown Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic.

Over the last 100 years, Arnett has brought new physicians, new specialties and the latest technological expertise to our community. The Arnett team has had many names and many homes, but what’s remained the same is our commitment to delivering the care that matters most to our patients, right here at home.

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For a closer look at some of the people who shaped the history of Arnett, read more about:

• Wendell Riggs, MD, the beloved pediatrician who believed every child deserved the best healthcare, regardless of their family’s income.
• Sharon Smith, the midwife who brought new birthing options to Greater Lafayette mothers.
• Virginia Stanwyk has been answering your calls for over 30 years.

Celebrating 100 Years

The Arnett team formally marked 100 years with a special celebration at Arnett Hospital.

West Lafayette mayor John Dennis, Lafayette city clerk Cindy Murray and Tippecanoe County commissioner Tom Murtaugh, along with state representative Sheila Klinker, joined in the celebration and proclaimed Oct. 11, 2022, as IU Health Arnett 100^th
Anniversary Day.

Team members gathered to enjoy birthday cake, a photo station, a blessing of the hands ceremony and more.

In his own words: Chris Mansfield, CMO

Chris Mansfield, MD, grew up in Lafayette and was a patient of the physicians at Arnett Clinic. He graduated from the IU School of Medicine and returned home to treat patients at IU Health Arnett Hospital.

Today, he serves as the Chief Medical Officer, leading the Arnett physicians in providing the best care, designed for each patient.

Listen as Dr. Mansfield shares how the history of Dr. Arnett and his namesake organization are shaping our outlook on the next 100 years.

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Less than one-half of one percent of all companies in the U.S. survive for more than 100 years. Evidence shows that the primary driver of enduring success is staying true to the organization’s culture and traditions, while also managing change.

Read more about IU Health Arnett’s century of growth and excellence—and how the team stayed true to their mission of delivering personalized patient care—in this in-depth look at the history of Arnett.

Looking ahead to the next century

When the Arnett-Crocket Clinic began, the world had just soldiered through the deadly Spanish flu (AKA the 1918 influenza pandemic). One hundred years later, as the world struggled through the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, history, as they say, repeated itself.

Dr. Arnett championed progress and personal patient care. Like our founder, the team at IU Health Arnett is committed to shaping the next 100 years of healthcare in partnership with every patient, promising to deliver the best care, designed for you.

Siu Lian Rubio is celebrating her 55^th anniversary in the Pathology Lab for IU Health.

By Maureen Gilmer, IU Health senior writer, mgilmer1@iuhealth.org

Siu Lian Rubio doesn’t really want to talk about herself. She’s more comfortable looking into a microscope than being the focus of an interview, but hers is a story worth sharing.

After all, who else has been on the job in the Path Lab at IU Health for more than half a century?

Turns out, Rubio has been working as a medical technologist (now a medical laboratory scientist) longer than her manager, Eric Kohler, has been alive.

Kohler, supervisor of the Core Lab evening shift, wanted his longest-tenured team member to get her due, and what better time to do that than today, her 55^th
anniversary in the Path Lab.

On Oct. 12, 1967, Rubio joined Methodist Hospital as a med tech in the lab, housed in the basement of the hospital at that time.

She had come to the United States from the Philippines in 1964 with a degree in pharmacy. After a couple stops in other cities in the U.S., where she earned her medical technology certification, she joined the Methodist team, even living next door in Wile Hall for a year.

It was a dormitory-style setting with single rooms, a shared bathroom and the cafeteria nearby, she recalled.

“It was nice, so convenient,” she said.

When she met and married her husband, they moved to an apartment a stone’s throw from the hospital, where they lived for several years.

She was never late to work, that’s for sure, she said.

She has pretty much kept that record of being on time intact, despite later moving into a house with her husband and raising four daughters.

Her work ethic is second to none, says Kohler, who has worked in the Path Lab for 15 years.

“It’s hard to fathom the decades that have passed since she started working here,” he said. “She’s seen not only the political change in the country, but Vietnam, 9/11, the HIV epidemic and now COVID. I’m kind of in awe.”

Technology has certainly changed too.

Machines do some of the work that used to be done by hand, but Rubio says a machine is still just a machine. It cannot replace a human’s ability to think or to analyze abnormal specimens.

The hematology department gets upwards of 2,000 test samples in a 24-hour period, Kohler said, so the lab works 24 hours a day, seven days a week covering Methodist, University and Riley Hospital for Children, as well as some regional hospitals when the need arises.

Rubio spends her days primarily running testing on hematology specimens or urine samples. She might be checking for things like anemia, diabetes, leukemia, urinary tract infections or clotting issues.

Where she really excels in is cell morphology, Kohler said.

“She has such vast experience obtained over the years, especially with IU Health’s hematology/oncology patient population, that I think she’s seen it all,” he said. “So, if the younger, inexperienced techs look under the microscope and are not sure what they’re looking at, they know to ask Siu Lian. She’ll know.”

She identified a recent case of malaria from a patient sample, something the lab sees about a half-dozen times a year.

COVID-19 was new to the lab 2½ years ago, of course, but it quickly overtook most other infections as it rapidly spread.

The vast majority of samples that come through the lab stem from routine physician orders.

“A lot of people outside don’t understand what we do,” Kohler said. “People go to the doctor and they know their blood is sent somewhere. A day or two later, they get the results. They don’t know that people like Siu Lian and myself are generating that data to help the doctor treat conditions. It’s a unique, interesting and rewarding world.”

Rubio agrees, saying she likes knowing she is able to help a patient, even indirectly.

After 55 years, you might wonder if she is thinking about retirement, but she says she enjoys her work and her colleagues and she continues to uphold high standards every day.

Rubio, who has always worked second shift, said the hours were convenient when her children were small, but the later shift continues to be her preference.

With the lab’s move several years ago from the basement of Methodist to its current home near 11^th Street and Senate Avenue, she and her colleagues can watch the sun set and traffic snarl on I-65 from their vantage point on the fifth floor near a large bank of windows facing west.

They are daily witnesses to the new IUH hospital being constructed in Methodist’s shadow.

Described as a “workhorse” by a colleague in the lab, Rubio shares this advice for team members who are new to the job: “Take your time, don’t rush anything because if you do things too quickly, you could miss something,” she said.

“Do things right. If there is something you don’t know, you can always ask me. That’s how you learn.”

Photos submitted and by Mike Dickbernd, IU Health visual journalist, mdickbernd@iuhealth.org

Sung Lyan offers comfort and understanding to patients and families as part of IU Health’s language services team.

By Maureen Gilmer, IU Health senior writer, mgilmer1@iuhealth.org

If a smile can be considered part of a universal language, then Sung Lyan is already an excellent communicator.

She was just a teenager when she came to the United States with her father from Burma (also known as Myanmar) in southeast Asia.

The only English she knew was “OK,” “yes” and “thank you,” she recalled.

Imagine the struggles she faced as she attempted to navigate high school. She remembers sitting in computer class one day when the teacher made a joke and everyone laughed except her.

“They looked at me, so I started laughing, then they stopped and I was the only one laughing.”

She had no idea what the teacher had said, but she felt the pain of embarrassment in that moment, and ever since, she has made it her mission to help others understand.

It all starts with a smile.

For the past three years, Lyan has served as a Burmese interpreter on IU Health’s language services team, spending most of her time at Riley Hospital for Children, though she also assists adult patients and families at IU Health Methodist and University hospitals.

Within Riley, she is called to interpret for parents and caregivers frequently in the Maternity Tower, NICU, Burn Clinic and other inpatient units.

Burn Clinic nurse Angela Seitz is one of many front-line clinicians who are grateful for Lyan and the interpretive team.

“Sung Lyan is amazing. She works very hard for our Burmese population in the hospital and is very helpful with us in Burn Clinic all the time,” Seitz said. “I can’t do my job without these interpreters helping me with families.”

Helping comes naturally to Lyan, a wife and mother of three boys. As a teen, her dream was to become a nurse, but life got in the way. When she first joined IU Health, she worked as a PCA at University Hospital, and she is now once again hoping to follow the path toward her nursing degree.

But for now, she uses her voice and her compassion to help fellow Burmese navigate sometimes scary days in the hospital.

“After having kids, I put myself in the parents’ situation,” she said. “They see doctors talking to each other about their kid, and they don’t know what they’re talking about. Having your kid’s diagnosis in your own language makes a big difference.”

She draws from personal experience when she is asked to come to the burn clinic at Riley. Her middle son suffered second-degree burns as a toddler in Kentucky, so she is familiar with the treatments patients receive and the questions parents have.

“The information I knew taking care of my son at that time is helpful for them.”

As a certified medical interpreter, she is trained in terminology often unique to healthcare, whether it is specific to a diagnosis or instructions on how to care for a patient’s feeding tube.

But to her it is about more than words.

Parents look to her for comfort and understanding, often in the worst times.

“Sometimes I have to deliver bad news. It’s hard,” she said. “I mentally prepare, and I pray to God that he will give me strength. Sometimes I pray with the family at the end to give them strength.”

And before they go to bed at night, she and her children pray for the sick kids at Riley, she said.

Rafael Mendez, interim manager for the Academic Health Center’s Language Services six-person interpreter team, credits Lyan for her passion and dedication to patients.

“Sung Lyan is an essential part of our team, helping our organization reduce health disparities in the communities we serve,” he said. “Her contribution to patient outcomes by providing clear communication between patient and provider is just one aspect of her role.”

She is also a cultural asset for patients needing to navigate the healthcare system, as well as a dependable resource for providers to offer culturally appropriate responses to their patients, Mendez said.

“Her skills and knowledge are invaluable and instrumental in carrying out the mission of our organization.”

Lyan said it’s only possible because of her co-workers on the language services team.

“A lot of people do not recognize us – sometimes we feel a little invisible – but we are here for the patients,” she said. “I really appreciate my co-workers and I can see how much they love their jobs. I just do what I can to make it even better.”

Photos by Mike Dickbernd, IU Health visual journalist, mdickbernd@iuhealth.org

The IU Health Wound Center in Bloomington offers a different type of HBO: hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

This treatment uses oxygen to speed up healing for a variety of health issues. IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians gynecologist, Philip C. Brittain, DO, underwent the therapy to treat tissue changes that occurred after he had radiation for prostate cancer.

Watch the video below to learn more.

She was a runner and a weightlifter. She had no real health problems, until she suffered a stroke.

By IU Health Senior Journalist, TJ Banes, tfender1@iuhealth.org

Five months before tragedy struck, Paige Holder was exchanging wedding vows with her college boyfriend, Zeb. Wearing a strapless sparkling white dress, she smiled through an outdoor wedding in Madison, Ind.

It was Sept. 25, 2021. The couple met as students at Indiana State University and were excited to start their lives together – Paige working in human resources for IU Health, and Zeb working for the military.

On a day that Zeb was scheduled to be gone, he had an odd feeling that he should stay home. At 10 a.m. on that February morning, Paige had difficulty breathing and passed out. Her husband called an ambulance, she was transported to a Terre Haute hospital and then flown via IU Health LifeLine helicopter to Methodist Hospital.

Just days earlier, Paige had undergone shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum. Doctors thought the blackout may have been caused by i a combination of her post-surgery sedentary state, and the change in her oral birth control. The combination may have resulted in blood clots in her lungs.

At Methodist Hospital she underwent a thrombectomy to remove the clots from her arteries and veins and restore the blood flow to her vital organs. The procedure is known to reduce the risk of death and permanent damage. It was the first of four procedures performed over seven hours.

She was taken to a room in the ICU to recover and expected to return home after a few hours. Shortly after she was settled, Holder experienced a stroke.

“It was all very scary and happened so fast. I learned that there is an 80 to 90 percent death rate in these types of strokes,” said Holder.

Within seconds, she was on a breathing tube and undergoing a second thrombectomy to remove blood clots from her brain.

“When they were done they told my family that it was successful, but I had more clots in my lungs and they would be taking me back for another thrombectomy to remove those clots. So my family waited and prayed,” said Holder, the daughter of Ron and Kelli Foster. She has a younger sister, Lilly.

Not long afterward, doctors came to inform her family of more developments.

“They had removed the clots from my lungs, but noticed that I had lost a pulse in one of my feet, and found that I now had clots in both sides of my arteries going to my legs, and they even talked about the possibility of having to amputate,” said Holder. A vascular surgeon was contacted and her family members were encouraged to visit her before surgery.

Another successful procedure removed the clots from the arteries of both of her legs. Not long after the family members got another update – she was following commands and trying to write notes while on the ventilator.

In all, Holder spent 14 days in the hospital, and inpatient rehab for physical, occupational, and speech therapy.

“In a way, it was all a mystery. I was tested for clotting disorders and I tested negative. They said they had not seen this many clots even in someone with clotting disorders,” said Holder, who has been in the care of IU Health hematologist Dr. Andrew O’Brien and internal medicine specialist Dr. Warren Gavin. She anticipates remaining on blood thinners the rest of her life and she said she has already changed her form of birth control.

To the best of her knowledge, Holder said the reason for her stroke was a genetic defect. She was born with a hole in her heart.

“A lot of the population has a hole in their heart from birth but they don’t have any complications until something like this happens. Usually the hole closes up sometime after birth,” she said. She recently traveled out of state to have a special procedure to close the hole in her heart.

She’s disappointed that she wasn’t able to participate in the Rugged Maniac, an obstacle course challenge she has taken part in since she was a freshman at Bloomington High School, and she says she won’t be riding any roller coasters any time soon. “I’m worried when I cut my finger on a can of dog food because it doesn’t want to stop bleeding for days, but I am so grateful to my IU Health team, family, and medical staff for getting me where I am six months later – 85 percent recovered,” said Holder. For now, she’ll enjoy her time as a newlywed, living with her husband and three dogs.

<p><em><strong>She was flooded with gifts from family members and friends. It helped get her through the toughest days. Now Mallorie Hook is giving back to IU Health Simon Cancer Center.</strong></em><br></p>
<p><em>By IU Health Senior Journalist, TJ Banes, </em><a href=”mailto:tfender1@iuhealth.org”><em>tfender1@iuhealth.org</em></a></p>
<p>There’s a picture that speaks volumes of Mallorie Hook’s journey. She’s floating in the Colorado River at Lee’s Ferry in Arizona. The mountains are in the background and the sun is shining down. Hook has a big smile on her face. </p>
<p>It’s a moment captured in one of her favorite locations. When she recently completed her treatments at IU Health Simon Cancer Center, Hook and her fiancé loaded their two Golden Retrievers into their RV and headed out for a long trip. </p>
<p>“Thinking about that trip was what got me through treatment,” said Hook, who turned 31 in September. </p>
<p>It was that trip and all the love and support from others who helped her reach the point she is now. </p>
<p>In February she had a rough week of sickness that included a migraine. She called her primary physician who suggested she go to ER. A blood test followed and within hours, Hook was in IU Health Simon Cancer Center. Her diagnosis was Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. At IU Health she is in the care of <a href=”https://iuhealth.org/find-providers/provider/larry-d-cripe-md-5543″>Dr. Larry Cripe</a>. </p>
<p>The diagnosis came not only as a surprise, but also after years facing bumps in the road. She became engaged three years ago to Stephen Moore, someone she’s known since middle school. In January 2020, Moore’s father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died in September. </p>
<p>“We finally got to a point where we were ready to begin planning for a wedding and then I was diagnosed,” said Hook, who grew up in Carmel. She is the second oldest of four children. Her parents are Ken and Katheleen Hook. </p>
<p>Throughout her life, she has been involved in traveling volleyball and softball, and cheerleading. In high school she found her niche in hair and makeup artistry and began taking on the role for high school musicals. </p>
<p>She attended Ball State University where she and Moore began dating and then pursued a career in cosmetology. She also paints in acrylics. </p>
<p>When she became hospitalized, Hook said she was overjoyed and overwhelmed by the outpouring of gifts from loved ones. </p>
<p>“It was a shocking diagnosis and a lot of people sent gifts – personal care items, art supplies, and blankets. It made me feel loved and also I began to see others who were in the hospital for a long time and were far from home. They didn’t get that attention,” said Hook. She began putting extra gifts on a donation table in IU Health Simon Cancer Center. The items disappeared quickly. She knew they were needed and appreciated.</p>
<p>She finished her first chemotherapy in August and returned for a bone marrow biopsy. </p>
<p>“I’m great now. I just got the biopsy results and everything is clear,” said Hook. </p>
<p>But she continues to visit her doctor monthly and when she does she brings along armfuls of gifts for the patients. Her mom serves as the planner and coordinator and collects favorite items such as eye masks, socks, art supplies, knitted hats, and magazines. </p>
<p>“The most popular items are blankets. If you are in a hospital bed, a nice soft fuzzy blanket makes all the difference. You don’t know what it feels like to receive something as simple as a warm hat when your head is bald, or a cold smoothie when your mouth hurts. I know and now I want to help others feel more comfortable,” said Hook. </p>
<p>And now that she’s feeling better, she hopes to begin planning that wedding. </p>

Little League Baseball is where Ron Drahos first met Timothy Steiner, MD, with IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Bloomington.

He and his wife, Hope Drahos, didn’t know that years later the doctor would end up helping them get their independence back by replacing all four of their shoulders.

Learn more about the care this couple received from their first appointment through rehabilitation in the video below: