Did you know that if every child was breastfed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for the first six months of life and continued to breastfeed until age 2, about 800,000 children’s lives would be saved every year? This information from...

Porter Physician Group welcomes Family Medicine Physician Kajal Patel, M.D., to its medical staff. Dr. Patel is seeing new patients and joins Drs. Shane Bush, Vijaya Chapala and Candice Yu-Fleming in practice at Portage Medical Group, located at 3630...

To help empower and build the confidence of young girls, Porter Health Care System will present the Dove Real Beauty Workshop from 9 a.m. to Noon Saturday, August 13 in the Community Room at Porter Regional Hospital, 85 East US Highway 6 in...

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...

With the next few days slated to be the hottest we’ve seen in Northwest Indiana so far this summer, it’s a good opportunity to remind parents about the extreme dangers of leaving children in hot cars. Heatstroke, or hyperthermia, is the leading...

Now offering specialized treatment for chronic non-healing wounds in the heart of Valparaiso. With a recent move to the Valparaiso Medical Center on Roosevelt Road in Valparaiso, Porter’s Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center has gone beyond...

Vijaya Chapala, M.D., recently joined Porter Physician Group and her impact on the community is already evident.  “My passion is to make the community healthy and to reduce the cost and suffering of people from chronic diseases,” shared Dr....

Porter Health Care System announced that its Engineering Department has achieved five years without a lost-time accident. This translates to 1,825 days without a recordable injury according to Porter’s Regional Executive Director for Facilities...

“I am particularly interested in diseases of the nose and sinuses.” A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Schwartz attended the State University of New York for his surgical internship and residency in otolaryngology-head and...

“Cardiovascular Health starts at the physician-patient relationship, making every day exciting as I work towards improving patient heart health and their quality of life.” Dr. Kommineni is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel...