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 America program.

            More than 30 organizations from across the country were nominated and just six were honored, with Community Healthcare the only hospital system to be recognized.

            During April, which is National Donate Life Month, Community Healthcare’s hospital fly the Donate Life flag every day and encourage patients and their families to become donors.