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Hospitals in Northwest Indiana have been at the center of the Regionâs response to COVID-19 throughout the yearlong global pandemic.
They put off elective surgeries and other non-urgent treatments last year to repurpose space for extra intensive care beds during several peak periods of coronavirus infection. Currently they are injecting hundreds of people each day with the COVID-19 vaccine that everyone hopes will bring an end to the health care emergency.
A rendering of the new Franciscan Health hospital in Crown Point shows the main entrance of the hospital. Provided
Through it all though, some Region hospital leaders have had to keep one eye on the present and another looking toward the future, as several major hospital and health care construction projects currently underway promise to make available more dynamic and innovative treatment options for Northwest Indiana residents in a post-pandemic world.
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Funds needed for local safe haven baby box Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:00 AM Throughout Indiana, abandoned babies have been found on residential streets, open fields and even in trash cans. This doesn’t have to happen. Franciscan Health Foundation is currently raising funds to install a Safe Haven Baby Box at Franciscan Health Crawfordsville.
Indiana’s Safe Haven Law allows a woman to legally and safely relinquish an unharmed newborn baby at a Safe Haven location. Historically, Safe Haven sites have been locations like fire and police stations. However, a baby box at a hospital gives women another, less intimidating, option if they fear being recognized, questioned or even arrested.
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Franciscan Health now administering COVID vaccine
Franciscan Health announced today that it has received initial supplies of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and will begin the inoculation of frontline healthcare workers today.
The vaccinations are being administered at its Michigan City, Crown Point, and Hammond hospitals.
“This is a monumental moment for the healthcare industry,” said Dean Mazzoni, president and CEO of Franciscan Health Michigan City. “Protecting the people who have been on the frontlines is giving them one more tool to successfully wage this war with a renewed peace of mind that they are protected.”
Today’s vaccinations mark the first phase, Franciscan Health said, “which, following