MICHIGAN CITY — American Lung Association Freedom from Smoking classes will be offered at Woodland Cancer Care Center in November (Lung Cancer Awareness Month) and December. The center’s Katy Quigley-Gartland, RN, MPH, will facilitate the sessions, which will run from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 25 and Dec. 2, 4, 9 and 16. Cost […]
MUNSTER – At the Family Birthing Center of Community Hospital, new moms are sharing their joy by donating the gift of life to others after their baby’s delivery. Nurses in the Mom-Baby unit are offering new parents the opportunity to donate their baby’s umbilical cord blood, umbilical cord and placenta to research and transplantation. The
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LOWELL — Franciscan Alliance has continued to expand the reach of its health care services with the recent opening of the Franciscan Physician Network-Lowell Health Center, 4500 W. 181st Ave. The public will have the opportunity to tour the facility and to meet its staff during an open house, set for noon to 3 p.m.
CROWN POINT – The Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority (RDA) celebrated several recent honors at today’s meeting of the Board of Directors. These included international, regional and individual recognitions of the RDA’s accomplishments. RDA President and CEO Bill Hanna said the awards are further proof of the value that the RDA has brought to Northwest
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and in response to this growing epidemic, Cancer Care Services of Porter Regional Hospital will be increasing awareness of its CT Lung Cancer Screening program to promote the early detection of lung cancer. Porter Regional Hospital recently received the designation of Screening Center of Excellence by the Lung Cancer
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WEST LAFAYETTE — Michelle Munk, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center, will speak at Purdue on Nov. 20 about her career. The talk, “From the Beach to Mars: One Engineer’s Journey,” will be at 5:30 p.m. in Armstrong Hall, Room B061. It is sponsored by the Women in Engineering Program and the School
By Owen Shapiro For the past seventy years, business branding has been largely guided by principles developed in the 1950s and 1960s, when there were only three television networks, messaging through advertising was easy to control, and information flowed from a few “trusted” news sources to millions of people. This one-to-many model of information flow
Valparaiso community leaders, accompanied by Porter Health Care System’s board members and senior management ceremoniously broke ground for the system’s first freestanding 24/7 emergency room (ER) that is expected to open fall 2015 at Valparaiso Medical Center located on the corner of Roosevelt Road and Glendale Blvd. in Valparaiso. Adding 10,740 square feet, the new
Porter Health Care System opened its second Health At Work corporate occupational and wellness clinic on Monday, Nov. 17. in its Portage Hospital located at 3630 Willowcreek Road. The first clinic, which opened in September 2013, is located at 809 LaPorte Ave. in Valparaiso. Health At Work offers medical services for employees who have suffered
Two Franciscan Alliance leaders are among the 2014 lnfluential Women of Northwest Indiana. Presented the Supporter of the Year Award was Sister Aline Shultz, who has served as Franciscan Alliance corporate vice president of marketing and development for five years. Receiving the Influential Women Healthcare Award was Trish Weber, who, since 2008, has been vice
