INDIANAPOLIS — Dying young. Bleak job opportunities. Unhealthy food options.

How do you change the fate of a community facing those systemic challenges for decades? IU Health thinks it has the answer.

A new News 8 series is doing a deep dive into the health provider’s solution to those problems.

Construction is happening on the new multibillion-dollar IU Health Campus at 16th Street and Capitol Avenue. IU Health sees the project as a rising tide to possibly lift all boats in the surrounding community that has faced decades of economic hardship.

Jamal Smith, director of government affairs at IU Health, compared the campus to the JW Marriott Indianapolis hotel and other tall buildings in downtown Indianapolis. “You know the JW? And how tall those are? Imagine three of those right next to each other.”