Staff Development and Motivation

We are pleased to announce that Phil Newbold has assumed the role of interim chief executive officer of Center for Hospice Care (CHC) and its affiliates while the board of directors conducts a national search for a permanent replacement for outgoing...

Michael E. Schrage, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Centier Bank, is proud to announce the Indiana Chamber of Commerce has ranked Centier as the #3 “Best Places To Work in Indiana.” The 18th annual awards event honored a...

Michael E. Schrage, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Centier Bank, is pleased to welcome Jon Schiesser as Vice President, Treasury Management Officer, based out of the bank’s Valparaiso Downtown Branch, located at 150...

Franciscan Health Crown Point has been awarded the inaugural Peregrine Award for Trauma Innovation by Peregrine Health Services, LLC for its efforts to improve the treatment of patients with substance use disorders. A panel of independent judges...

Two Northwest Health hospitals received high marks for quality of care today from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit upholding the standard of patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. Northwest Health – Porter received an...

Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is proud to announce Jamie Jacobs, MSW, LSW, as the organization’s new Manager of Bereavement Services. Ms. Jacobs is succeeding Holly Farmer, MA, LHMC, who served the agency for more than 21 years. Jamie will be an...

Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is proud to announce Janice Young, RN as the organization’s new Director of Inpatient Units. Ms. Young has been serving CHC since November 2022. Janice has been an RN for over thirty years and has been in management...

Northwest Medical Group recently welcomed Jennifer Aversano, FNP-C, a family nurse practitioner with a special interest in cancer care. Aversano joined the practice of Tareq Braik, M.D., and Mary Klein, M.D., at Northwest Health – Hematology &...

Who do you say that I am? I dreaded this question in Novitiate, then when I went to retreat years later, I had the same question asked again. I admitted that I still did not know. The retreat director asked if I wanted to know. I replied “Yes.”...

Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is proud to announce Christine (Chrissy) Madlem, RN as the organization’s new Director of Nursing. Ms. Madlem is succeeding Angie Fox, RN, CHPN who served the agency for more than 3 years. Chrissy will be an integral...