VALPARAISO – The Mental Health Alliance of Porter County has announced awards for several outstanding individuals. The alliance includes Porter-Starke Services, Inc., The Porter-Starke Services Foundation, and Mental Health America of Porter County. Aileen Wehren of Porter-Starke Service received the Aled P. Davies award for Public Policy on Health; Amanda Gano and Cindy […]
MUNSTER – Community Healthcare System has been honored for efforts to raise awareness on organ, eye and tissue donation. Donate Life America has presented Community Hospital in Munster, St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago and St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart with its 2010 Award of Merit for events relating to the Flags Across
MICHIGAN CITY – LaPorte Regional Health System will hold its ninth annual Women’s Fair from 2 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, in the Stardust Event Center at Blue Chip Casino. More than 50 exhibits will be set up to provide information on health and wellness. The exhibits include a model of the
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Cary Supalo, a Purdue University alumnus and founder and president of Independence Sciences LLC (located in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette) was at the White House Monday demonstrating his products to help students affected by blindness and low vision. Supalo, a blind chemist who recently earned a doctorate
INDIANAPOLIS – Megan Bradshaw and Dawn Devine, nurses with St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers in Indianapolis, have been named the first recipients of the hospital’s DAISY Awards. They are part of The DAISY Foundation, a nationwide program that recognizes extraordinary nurses. Bradshaw works in the critical care unit at St. Francis
INDIANAPOLIS – Patrick Raftery of Indianapolis has joined Centier Bank as vice president of business banking. He will be responsible for businesses in Indianapolis and central Indiana. Raftery has 28 years of banking experience. He is a graduate of Indiana University and received his MBA from Butler University. He spent 11 years in
MERRILLVILLE – The Purdue Technology Center of Northwest Indiana will host a biodiesel event at the Purdue Research Park in AmeriPlex at the Crossroads, from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Sept. 15. Hoon Ge, a chemical engineer, will be the guest speaker at the Lake Michigan Consortium-U.S. Biodiesel Event. It is sponsored by CountryMark
INDIANAPOLIS – Teaching children the financial basics is important, but they are not often taught those basics in school, according to the Indiana Bankers Association. Financial literacy is important for not only future business leaders, but for customers as well. Children as young as 4 realize money is important, but they don’t understand
MUNSTER – Community Healthcare System has implemented a high-tech solution to safeguard patients against misidentification. Community Healthcare includes Community Hospital in Munster, St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago and St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart. The hospital is using robots to dispense medication, said John Gorski, chief operating officer. “Our goal is to
VALPARAISO – Porter Health System has been selected by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid and Abbott Vascular as a site for CHOICE, a post-market clinical trial that examines the use of carotid stents in high-risk surgical patients. “To gain approval as one of the study sites in the United States and Europe
