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Beginning at 6 am on Saturday, August 25, Porter Hospital at 814 LaPorte Ave in Valparaiso will be relocating to the new Porter Regional Hospital at 85 East US Highway 6 in Valparaiso, at the corner of US 6 and IN 49. At that time, the Emergency...

From the Summer 2012 Healthy Woman publication It's 6 pm and your child has a fever and an earache, yet you don't have to wait until morning for answers, thanks to Porter's CareEXPRESS. CareEXPRESS is an urgent care center open 9 am to 9 pm seven...

The hallway just outside the administrative offices at Porter Hospital is reverent as staff and community members alike reminiscence about the impact of the hospital in their lives over the past 73 years. Porter has dedicated the hallway as the...

LaPorteCountyLife.com is a new community-based website, focusing on an exclusively-positive view on the people, places, organizations, and businesses serving La Porte County, Indiana. We look to be a central hub for all of the great information out...

First responders can learn how to react to accidents involving hybrid vehicles, battery-powered vehicles, plug-in vehicles and fuel-cell electric vehicles during a training course set for Aug. 30. The First Responder Safety Training program will be...

Porter Health Care System invites community members to officially bid farewell to its Valparaiso Hospital Campus before closing its doors to relocate to the new Porter Regional Hospital on August 25, 2012. Community members may join Porter...

Get a sneak peek inside the all new Porter Regional Hospital. This is your chance to experience the innovative patient-centered design, advanced technology, beautiful architecture, and healing environment of this unique hospital. Over 450,000 square...

“Maximize me” could be a new mantra for people giving the gift of life through the American Red Cross. “It’s human nature to want to make the most of things,” said Sharyn Whitman, CEO for the Indiana-Ohio Blood Services Region of the...

From the Spring 2012 StayHealthy publication Porter has scored another first by being the first hospital in Northwest Indiana to offer a new treatment for patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). Called Aquapheresis Therapy, it is a way to...

From the Spring 2012 StayHealthy publication Though we don't discuss it over dinner, the contents of our dinner plates may well lead to the indelicate condition we call irregularity. "Yet, sometimes constipation will sneak up on people and they can't...