VALPARAISO – Porter Health System has announced that interventional radiologist Amjad Alkadri recently performed Porter Hospital’s first translumbar type II endoleak repair. “Endoleak is the most commonly identified complication that occurs in patients who undergo endovascular grafting,” said Alkadri. “What endoleak means is that blood flow occurs within the aneurysm sac.” He explained […]
CROWN POINT – The Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center is holding a seminar from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, on starting your own business. The seminar will focus on the challenges of business ownership and examine the ability of entrepreneurs to handle the challenges involved in business ownership. The seminar
LAPORTE – The Visiting Nurse Association Hospice of LaPorte Regional Health System will hold a bereavement support group series on Mondays from Oct. 28 to Nov. 18. The series, “Moving from Grief to Hope and Healing,” will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the First Church of God, 2020 E. Lincolnway,
INDIANAPOLIS – As part of the 2010 Heartland Film Festival that runs from Oct. 14-23, eleven high school filmmakers will debut their films. Among those films is “Clay,” by John Gordon, about a boy left in the rubble of the Jan. 12 Haitian earthquake; “Glimpse of Horizon,” by Regina Nicholson, about a teenage
GARY – John Betjemann, 70, the former president and chief executive officer of Methodist Hospitals, has died. He was a hospital executive for nearly 40 years. Mr. Betjemann died of complications of Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Betjemann came to Northwest Indiana in 1980 after being named president and CEO of Methodist Hospitals. Before that, he
LAPORTE – Rhonda Volk has been named vice president of the LaPorte Regional Physician Network. Volk, of St. John, has been with the network since 2007, when she was named executive director. She received her undergraduate degree in health services management from Indiana University and is currently pursuing a master of health administration
VALPARAISO – T. Paul Bulmahn, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of ATP Oil & Gas Corp., will discuss the challenges of launching new businesses in offshore gas and oil development, green energy and thoroughbred racing, at a lecture at Valparaiso University on Oct. 27. Buhlmahn, a VU alumnus, will present “Rise to
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University professor Ei-ichi Negishi has won a Nobel Prize for chemistry. Negishi, the Herbert Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, received the award with Richard Heck, professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, and Akira Suzuki, a professor at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. “Today, we celebrate a new
GARY – Indiana University Northwest will host a free financial education expo, “Money, Money, Money,” from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, in the Morraine Center Lobby and Raintree Hall. The expo is for children as young as 7 up to adults. Workshops will focus on maximizing savings, alternatives to foreclosure,
VALPARAISO – Pines Village Retirement Communities has received two Excellence Awards from the Indiana Association of Homes & Services for the Aging. Pines Village received awards recognizing the organization for programs and services that are models of innovation and that contribute to the quality of life for residents, and the Excellence in Care
