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May 4, 2021 / 04:41 PM EST
HAMMOND, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) The board of trustees for Mishawaka-based Franciscan Alliance has approved a $45 million investment in the Franciscan Health Hammond hospital. The health system says the project will convert the 100-year-old facility into an eight-bed acute care hospital emergency department and primary care location.
Franciscan says the facility will continue to provide healthcare services to the community, but on a smaller scale. Once the project is complete, the hospital will continue to provide 24/7 emergency services, as well as inpatient care for short stays, imaging and laboratory services, wound care, dialysis, prenatal care and primary care.
Franciscan Health plans to significantly downsize and demolish part of one of the largest and longest-running hospitals in Northwest Indiana.
The Mishawaka-based health care provider plans to shrink the 226-bed Franciscan Health Hospital at 5454 Hohman Ave. to an 8-bed acute care hospital, emergency department and primary care location. The 800,000-square-foot Hammond campus will be shrunk to about a tenth of its size, about 85,000 square feet.
More than 120 years old, the former St. Margaret Hospital stands nine stories high and has long been an anchor of and the largest employer in downtown Hammond, which the city has been working to revitalize. More than 700 physicians affiliated with more than 50 specialties are affiliated with the hospital.
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HAMMOND â A man shot himself and later died after fatally shooting his wife early Thursday, police said.Â
After shooting himself in a Hammond cemetery, the critically injured man died Thursday afternoon, police reported.Â
The woman was identified as Alicia Guerrero, 49, of Hammond. She was pronounced dead at 8:31 a.m. Tuesday at Franciscan Health Hammond, according to a report from Lake County Coroner Merrilee Frey.Â
The man was identified as Rogelio Guerrero, 47, of Hammond. He was pronounced dead at 11:22 a.m. at Community Hospital in Munster, the coroner s report said.Â