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At Ignite Medical Resorts, our core competency is short term rehabilitation with a focus on hiring the best and most qualified therapists in the area. We are unique in that all of our physical, occupational, and speech therapists are employed by us...

Program aims to help nonprofit health and human service agencies A total of 55 non-profit organizations across Indiana and Chicago’s south suburbs will receive a boost through $448,000 in funding from Franciscan Health’s Social Impact Partnership...

Hospital is first in Indiana to receive Gold Level accreditation Franciscan Health Crown Point’s emergency department is the first in Indiana and only one of 13 in the nation to receive the American College of Emergency Physician’s Pain and...

Northwest Health is welcoming internal medicine physicians, Artemii Lazarev, M.D. to Northwest Medical Group. Dr. Lazarev is accepting new patients at the Medical Offices at Northwest Health – Chesterton, 650 Dickinson Road, Chesterton, Indiana....

Building on its reputation as a leader in cardiovascular care, the Structural Heart and Valve team at Community Hospital on Wednesday performed its 1,000th transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Known as TAVR, the procedure is a minimally...

Hundreds of students from Catholic schools across Northwest Indiana and Chicago’s South Suburbs gathered at Franciscan Health Dyer Wednesday morning for the annual Respect Life Celebration. The annual event, co-hosted by Franciscan Health and the...

Northwest Health is welcoming family medicine nurse practitioner, Kristi McCormick, FNP-C to Northwest Medical Group. She is accepting new patients at the at Northwest Medical Group – Primary Care, 8988 E. US Highway 20, in New Carlisle,...

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States and can appear in women whose only risk factors are age and sex. Annual mammograms are an important tool when it comes to long-term breast health but many women, especially those...

Franciscan Health Michigan City is presenting the latest installment in its free, faith-based church diabetes initiative, Fan Out Diabetes. Franciscan Health Michigan City’s Fan Out Diabetes program is a faith-based diabetes initiative that pairs...

On October 1, cardiac electrophysiologists at Northwest Health – Porter will begin using an innovative new cardiac ablation therapy to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common heart rhythm disorder in adults.  When a person has AFib,...