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
Commercial construction is on a roll. by Heidi Prescott Wieneke When Tim Healy started work for Holladay Properties in 2000, the South Bend-based company had nothing going on in Northwest Indiana. It was just him, a trailer and 386 acres of vacant land Holladay had purchased from Bethlehem Steel. Healy had his work cut out
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
