LAPORTE – Indiana University Health LaPorte Hospital has opened a new Arrhythmia Center offering heart patients local access to high-quality tests and procedures for irregular heartbeats. The Arrhythmia Center provides 24-hour advanced cardiac care. The lab was modeled after facilities at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “The […]
LAPORTE – Valparaiso University nursing students, along with Indiana University Health LaPorte Hospital, will hold a free community health fair from 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in the IU Health LaPorte Hospital Auditorium. Glucose and blood pressure screenings will be offered and education programs on diabetes, diet, vaccines, osteoporosis, heart disease,
VALPARAISO – To help women learn more about daVinci Robotic Surgery, Porter Health System’s Healthy Women Program will hold a “Just Say NO to Abdominal Hysterectomy” seminar. Cheryl Short, an OB/GYN, will present the program at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, at the hospital’s Education & Rehabilitation Campus, 1401 Calumet Ave., Valparaiso.
SOUTH BEND – Gibson Insurance Group will hold its 5th annual Healthcare Summit from 8 to 11:30 a.m. (EST) on Thursday, March 10, at the Hilton Garden Inn’s Gillespie Conference Center in South Bend. A compliance update will be presented by attorney Ann Mackey of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister; John Willey, director of
VALPARAISO – Porter Health System and HealtheACCESS LLC have acquired Porter’s occupational medicine services, Northwest Indiana Occupational Medicine Services (NIOMS) by HealtheACCESS LLC. HealtheACCESS is the largest providers for occupational medicine in Porter County. The model HealtheACCESS and Porter Hospital are developing should help employers, corporations, municipalities and local government improve health
CROWN POINT – The Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point Auxiliary recently presented a $100,000 check to the hospital’s Capital Campaign. David Ruskowski, hospital president, thanked the auxiliary for the donation and for its other donations over the years. Since the hospital opened in 1974, the auxiliary has raised more than $2 million.
CROWN POINT – The Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Capital Campaign recently received donations of $3,000 and $781.50 from Richard Sauerman of MainSource Bank of Northwest Indiana and Tracy Pohlmann of Crown Point, a distributor for Premier Jewelry Sales. Sauerman said he wanted to help the local community and donated to St. Clare Health
VALPARAISO – Porter is the only hospital in Northwest Indiana offering a new treatment option for patients with inoperable liver cancer, the Selective Internal Radiation Therapy procedure. “SIRT is suitable for patients who have liver tumors where the liver is the only site or the major site of disease,” said Dr. Amjad Alkadri,
CROWN POINT – Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point has announced it will begin construction on a $6 million Radiology Oncology Department that will include a Trilogy Linear Accelerator from Varian Medical Systems of California. Construction is expected to be completed by November. “The Trilogy radiation therapy machine will offer fast, more precise,
LAPORTE – Workforce Health LLC, an affiliate of Indiana University Health LaPorte Hospital will offer occupational health and wellness services in Porter County in the spring. The clinic will be in the Eastport Centre off Indiana 49 between Indiana 2 and U.S. 30. It will offer treatment of work-related injuries, drug and alcohol
