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Nursing is a demanding profession during normal times. But the COVID-19 pandemic has put nurses on the front line of the greatest health crisis in more than 100 years, placing their physical health at risk and forcing long, stressful days and nights that tax energy and emotions. Through this most difficult year, nurses have risen to that challenge, saving lives and comforting patients and families through their struggles. Please join The Times Media Co. in honoring and celebrating nurses throughout the area with a nomination campaign and awards ceremony honoring the Region's best nurses. Star...

Hospitals across Indiana, including Community Hospital in Munster, have begun to vaccinate health care workers across the state, but health care officials caution that people shouldn't become complacent about the coronavirus that's killed more than 300,000 Americans and that masks and outreach are still needed. The federal government already has cut on the number of doses being deployed to Indiana, Illinois and other states. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the state would only get half of the 8 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine it was supposed to get next week. "We did find out this m...

MUNSTER — The first doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine arrived at Community Hospital Tuesday morning and were administered to health care workers by the afternoon, giving "hope for the future and that we can get back to where we were" and marking a potential turning point in a global pandemic that's extracted a major toll of human life and upended most people's daily lives.   "Over the past nine months, Community Healthcare System hospitals have cared for over 2,000 inpatients with COVID-19," Community Healthcare System Chief Medical Officer Alan Kumar said. "The arrival o...

Published December 15, 2020 • Updated on December 15, 2020 at 10:58 pm NBCUniversal Media, LLC Nurses, doctors and technicians finally have a reason to be hopeful this holiday season, as the first doses of the new coronavirus vaccine begin to make their way into the arms of health care workers around the country. “If you could have told my 3-year-old self that I would love getting a shot one day, I probably wouldn’t have believed it,” Mark Hooks, an emergency nurse at Loretto Hospital, said after getting the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. “It was great.” The health care workers who...