Medicine

Franciscan Healthcare Munster and Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City recently received A grades, the highest given, as a reflection of superior hospital safety. The Leapfrog Group, a national leader and advocate in hospital transparency,...

DeMotte Physicians of Porter Physician Group will present a free Health Fair & Cook Out from 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18 at their new office at 630 N. Main Street, in Hebron. The Health Fair & Cook Out will feature free refreshments, as...

Porter Regional Hospital’s Center for Cardiovascular Medicine and Portage Hospital have been granted a three-year term of accreditation in Echocardiography in the areas of Adult Transthoracic by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC)....

Lisa Hendricks, M.D., of Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City, recently became the area’s first physician certified to perform single-site da Vinci robotic gynecologic surgery with a specialty for hysterectomy patients, a procedure that...

Porter Regional Hospital’s CareEXPRESS Urgent Care Centers are offering $25 sports physicals from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week at all three Porter County locations. CareEXPRESS Urgent Care Centers are located in Porter’s Chesterton Medical...

A free program titled, “Prevention and Management of Lymphedema,” will be offered at 6 p.m. June 24 in the Breast Care Center of Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point, located on the third floor of the Burrell Professional Building (southwest...

Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City is joining with the American Lung Association in presenting a series of smoking cessation classes. Starting at 10:30 a.m. to noon May 20 and continuing on May 27 and June 3, 10, 12, 17 and 24, the hospital...

Kevin Elkins and Virginia Dobrzeniecki are special to Franciscan St. Margaret Health in similar and varying ways. Both recently were honored at an annual employee recognition banquet for those who have served the Dyer and Hammond hospital campuses...

Wednesday marked the groundbreaking launch of the new surgical pavilion addition to St. Mary Medical Center. This Surgical Pavilion/ICU addition will add more than 113,000 square feet to the Medical Center. Staff and guests gathered in a canopy,...

Porter Regional Hospital announced that it is the first hospital in northwest Indiana/Chicagoland to complete an implant of the new Iforia implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) as part of the ProMRI® trial. The trial, which is sponsored by...