CROWN POINT – St. Anthony Medical Center is now offering patients the da Vinci Surgical System. DaVinci consists of a robotic platform designed to enable complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach. Sister hospitals St. Anthony Memorial in Michigan City and St. Margaret Mercy in Hammond and Dyer already offer da Vinci. […]
SOUTH BEND – Its small size belies its importance to economic development in South Bend. An analytical laboratory only 847 square feet in size is now open in Notre Dame’s Innovation Park. The lab can be leased by the hour or by the day by businesses. And along with the lab, tenants have
PORTER – The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore had a record 2,165,605 visitors in 2010, according to statistics released by the National Park Service. That was an 11.8 percent increase in visitors from 2009. “Surveys show that about 80 percent of the park’s visitors are not from the local area. That means some 1.6 million
INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mitch Daniels has named Bruce Lemmon as Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Correction. He replaces Ed Buss, who left the post to take over as head of the Florida Department of Corrections. Lemmon has been with the DOC since 1976. He was most recently superintendent of the Putnamville Correctional
VALPARAISO – Northcoast Distributing has announced it plans to move to a new and larger location on the south side of Valparaiso. The new location is on 35 acres on Indiana 49, south of U.S. 30 across from the Porter County Jail and the Porter County Fairgrounds. Once the move is complete,
CROWN POINT – The first Innovators Café of 2011 will feature WorkingWell Occupational Healthcare, the world’s first freestanding occupational health provider to receive International Organization of Standardization certification. It will be held starting at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, at Franciscan Point, the new outpatient health care complex operated by St. Anthony Medical
HAMMOND – The South Shore Convention and Visitors Association has announced the winners in its annual Ugly Lamp and Tree contest conducted as a part of its annual “A Christmas Story Comes Home” event. Ugly Lamp winners were Michelle Johnston and Katie Noojin of Griffith for their foot lamp. The tree contest
MICHIGAN CITY – ThermoSafe Brands has announced it will close its manufacturing plant in the Michigan City Enterprise Center by the end of 2011, putting 100 people out of work. Tegrant Inc. of DeKalb, Ill., which owns ThermoSafe, recently completed an evaluation of the “company’s footprint” with a view to making its production
VALPARAISO – Porter Health systems is participating in the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines Stroke Program. It has a goal of improving the quality of care for stroke patients by improving acute stroke treatment and preventing future strokes and cardiovascular illness. The guidelines of the program address acute stroke
MISHAWAKA – Mark Murray has been named 2011 chairman of the board for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Murray is president/CEO of Center for Hospice Care in Mishawaka. NHPCO has 52,000 members and is the oldest and largest organization representing hospice and palliative care programs. Murray has been on the
