Medicine

Excitement was in the air as needles went into arms, marking the first of the COVID-19 vaccines delivered at Franciscan Health hospitals in Crown Point, Hammond and Michigan City on Friday morning. Physicians, nurses and support staff who have been...

Today the first doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine were administered to six frontline workers. The first doses were administered at 10 A.M.  “Today is a historic day,” Dr. Dafer Al-Haddadin, infectious disease doctor at Franciscan Health in...

First doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine have arrived at Community Hospital in Munster. Some 975 vials of the initial allocation are ready for inoculation. An additional 975 doses are expected to be delivered on Thursday. Distribution of the...

Residents with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms and are at higher risk for related complications have another treatment available at the hospitals of Community Healthcare System to help aid in their recovery. Bamlanivimab is a monoclonal antibody...

If you suffer from neck, back, leg or arm pain from stenosis, disc herniation, spondylosis or a number of other degenerative spine conditions, a non-surgical alternative option may be beneficial. A safe, gentle evidence-based solution is now...

Patients and staff at Franciscan Health Crown Point will have a convenient option for filling necessary prescriptions with the opening of a new outpatient retail pharmacy at the hospital. Pharmacy staff celebrated the opening on Nov. 16 with a...

In the cool, pre-dawn October hours, while most of the Region was still fast asleep, a convoy of ambulances converged outside of La Porte Hospital for the culmination of a process three years in the making, a move to their new and newly-branded...

An interventional cardiologist and an internal medicine physician are the newest additions to the Franciscan Physician Network’s team of doctors in Michigan City. The Franciscan Physician Network Heart Center Michigan City has welcomed...

A strong healthcare system is essential to a community’s quality of life, especially in terms of  providing access to medical care to area residents and contributing to the economic health of the community overall. La Porte Hospital’s rich...

For the past five years, La Porte Hospital and its sister sites, Porter Regional Hospital in Valparaiso and Starke Hospital in Knox, have collaborated to better stablish themselves as local healthcare leaders. Today they adopt a...