HOBART – St. Mary’s Medical Center has announced plans to build a 55,000-square-foot outpatient center in Valparaiso, near Indiana 49 and Burlington Beach Road.

The Valparaiso Health Center will be part of the Community Healthcare System.

“Valparaiso Health Center represents Community Healthcare System’s long-standing history of helping bring a higher quality of life and health to the residents of our communities,” said John Gorski, chief operating officer of Community. “As a Northwest Indiana-based not-for-profit healthcare system, we have a commitment to reinvesting into the technologies and services that contribute to the strength and vitality of our neighborhoods and the people we serve.”

The center will include an immediate care facility, full-service imaging, a clinical laboratory, physical therapy and rehabilitation programs. Specialists in family and internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, weight loss, surgery and other specialties will be on staff.