Collaboration between Beacon Health System in South Bend and Franciscan Health has led to a new $21.6 million hospital in La Porte.
Healthy dose of growth
From 2015 to 2019, health care and social assistance was the fastest-growing sector in Northwest Indiana in terms of employment. It created 2,654 new jobs or about half of all new jobs added in the Region during that time, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.