INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration recently named Susana Suarez Director of Development for the Indiana Neuro-Diagnostic Institute and Advanced Treatment Center (NDI). The NDI is under construction on the campus of Community East Hospital in Indianapolis and is the marquee project for the State’s effort to provide cutting-edge mental health services to qualifying Hoosiers. Suarez currently serves as the executive director of communication strategies for Governor Eric J. Holcomb.
Suarez serves as Councilwoman at Large and is past President of the Zionsville Town Council with additional leadership roles on the Zionsville Safety Board, Board of Police Commissioners and the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
The building of the Indiana Neuro-Diagnotic Institute and Advanced Treatment Center was announced in December of 2015 and is slated to begin serving patients in 2018. The institute will hold 159 beds and will have the capacity to treat 1,500 patients per year. The focus will be on acute and chronic mental illness, chronic addictions, traumatic brain injury, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and neuro-degenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease.