Dr. Max Runkle is surrounded by his colleagues and staff at Gray Road Family Medicine after receiving St. Francis' first Healing Hands Award.INDIANAPOLIS – A physician whose career has been affiliated with St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers for more than three decades is the first recipient of the hospital’s Healing Hands Award.
Max Runkle, M.D., was recognized by St. Francis leadership April 26 at his Gray Road Family Medicine office on the city’s south side. A member of St. Francis Medical Group, Runkle has been affiliated with St. Francis since 1979.
“St. Francis is blessed to have some many wonderful people on its professional staff, and certainly Dr. Runkle is one who has dedicated his career to his patients,” said Alan Gillespie, M.D., chief medical officer and vice president. “His clinical service and the compassionate care he gives are in keeping with the highest values of St. Francis Hospital.”
With his office staff and colleagues looking on, Runkle was presented with a personally engraved crystal award and plaques, the latter of which will be on display at St. Francis’ hospitals in Indianapolis, Beech Grove and Mooresville.
Also attending the ceremony was Glenn Loomis, M.D., president of St. Francis Medical Group.
Runkle, who completed his residency at St. Francis in 1979, earned his medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is a member of the American Association of Family Medicine and the Indiana State Medical Association.
The Healing Hands Award, which will be awarded quarterly, was established earlier this year. Its goal is to recognize St. Francis physicians for excellence in clinical skills,
patient relations, research, stewardship and their reflection of the hospital’s health-care ministry, values and mission.
