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Media contacts

Community Health Network has switched to a "news bureau" format to more efficiently handle your media requests. This will require you to follow a new method for contacting Community for lining up interviews and sources for your stories.

Below is a new contact list for you to keep handy. It assigns a "point person" for your story requests, based on service line and location. It also includes key contact information for these media coordinators.

Between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, you can contact the following people for information:

Courtney Jones
Office: 317-621-9595
Pager: 317-904-3691
E-mail Courtney

• Community Hospital North
• Women’s health
• Labor and delivery / maternity
• Pediatric hospital care
• NICU (neonatal intensive care unit)
• Spine / Community Spine Center
• Oncology / Community Regional Cancer Care
• Interventional Radiology

Melissa Clark
Office: 317-621-3621
Pager: 317-904-4609
E-mail Melissa

• Community Hospital South
• MedCheck / urgent care
• Community Home Health Services
• Sleep/Wake Disorders Center
• Hook Rehabilitation Center (neurological rehabiliation after a stroke or brain injury)
• Neurology (headache, epilepsy and other neurological conditions)
• Neurosurgery
• Stroke
• Rehab & Sports Medicine Centers (physical/occupational therapy)
• Health Promotions (employee wellness)
• Behavioral Care (adult and child psychiatry and psychology; substance abuse/addiction)
• Diet and nutrition
• Imaging

Curt Miller
Office: 317-621-9745
Pager: 317-626-5655
E-mail Curt

• Surgery (inpatient and outpatient procedures)
• Indiana Surgery Center (outpatient surgery centers)
• VEI (Visionary Enterprises, Inc.)
• Wellspring Pharmacy
• Medical office buildings
• Health care boutique/retail

Gayle Sweitzer
Office: 317-621-7071
Pager: 317-904-5454
E-mail Gayle

• Community medical pavilions (Fishers, Saxony, Carmel, Fort Ben, East, Greenfield)
• Emergency departments
• Nursing

Kristi Mengelt
Office: 317-621-5434
Pager: 317-904-5240
E-mail Kristi

• Orthopedics

Cari Kluger
Office: 317-621-1658
Pager: 317-904-3844
E-mail Cari

• Community Physicians of Indiana
• Family practice
• Internists
• OB/GYN
• Pediatrics

Leah Campbell
Office: 317-621-8038
Pager: 317-904-3291
E-mail Leah

• Cardiovascular issues and surgery
• Community Heart and Vascular
• The Indiana Heart Hospital
• Cardiovascular specialty practices

Ryan Chelli
Office: 317-621-4663
Pager: 317-904-3495

• Community Health Network Foundation

Lynda de Widt
Office: 317-621-3636
Pager: 317-904-8845
E-mail Lynda

• Crisis issues
• Health care costs
• Network leadership
• Business of health care
• Disasters and emergency preparedness
• Infection control issues
• Patient safety and quality
• H1N1 (swine flu) 
• Hospital Compare scores / quality measures
• Adverse events (medical errors)
• Network 990’s
• Community benefit
• Market growth, impact and trends
• Information technology (IT)
• Hospital expansion and building
• Requests from trade publications
• Requests from national media

For patient conditions between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays, you may contact:

Courtney Jones (for all Community Hospitals Indianapolis locations)
Leah Campbell (for The Indiana Heart Hospital)

During weekends or after hours, please call the network media pager: 317-904-8845.