Specialty

Primary care, sports medicine physician joins Franciscan Physician Network in Michigan City

Primary care, sports medicine physician joins Franciscan Physician Network in Michigan City Primary Care and Sports Medicine Physician Thomas Schmittdiel, MD, is now part of the Franciscan Physician Network and is accepting new patients in Michigan City and La Porte. Dr. Schmittdiel attended medical school at the University of Missouri...

Read More

Franciscan awards nearly $450,000 in community health improvement grants

Franciscan awards nearly $450,000 in community health improvement grants Program aims to help nonprofit health and human service agencies A total of 55 non-profit organizations across Indiana and Chicago’s south suburbs will receive a boost through $448,000 in funding from Franciscan Health’s Social Impact Partnership...

Read More

Franciscan Health Crown Point emergency department accredited by the American College of Emergency Physicians

Franciscan Health Crown Point emergency department accredited by the American College of Emergency Physicians Hospital is first in Indiana to receive Gold Level accreditation Franciscan Health Crown Point’s emergency department is the first in Indiana and only one of 13 in the nation to receive the American College of Emergency Physician’s Pain and...

Read More

Internal Medicine Physician Joins Northwest Health in Chesterton

Internal Medicine Physician Joins Northwest Health in Chesterton Northwest Health is welcoming internal medicine physicians, Artemii Lazarev, M.D. to Northwest Medical Group. Dr. Lazarev is accepting new patients at the Medical Offices at Northwest Health – Chesterton, 650 Dickinson Road, Chesterton, Indiana....

Read More

Franciscan Health, Diocese of Gary partner for Respect Life celebration

Franciscan Health, Diocese of Gary partner for Respect Life celebration Hundreds of students from Catholic schools across Northwest Indiana and Chicago’s South Suburbs gathered at Franciscan Health Dyer Wednesday morning for the annual Respect Life Celebration. The annual event, co-hosted by Franciscan Health and the...

Read More

Northwest Medical Group Introduces Kristi McCormick, FNP-C to New Carlisle location

Northwest Medical Group Introduces Kristi McCormick, FNP-C to New Carlisle location Northwest Health is welcoming family medicine nurse practitioner, Kristi McCormick, FNP-C to Northwest Medical Group. She is accepting new patients at the at Northwest Medical Group – Primary Care, 8988 E. US Highway 20, in New Carlisle,...

Read More

Patients at Northwest Health – Porter to receive new treatment for Atrial Fibrillation

Patients at Northwest Health – Porter to receive new treatment for Atrial Fibrillation On October 1, cardiac electrophysiologists at Northwest Health – Porter will begin using an innovative new cardiac ablation therapy to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common heart rhythm disorder in adults.  When a person has AFib,...

Read More

Franciscan WorkingWell donates $3,000 to Franciscan Health Foundation food insecurity program

Franciscan WorkingWell donates $3,000 to Franciscan Health Foundation food insecurity program Funds raised by sponsorships for recent healthcare symposium Franciscan WorkingWell recently donated the sponsorship proceeds from a day-long employer solutions symposium to the Franciscan Health Foundation of Northern Indiana’s Food...

Read More

Urologist, David Kraklau, M.D., joins Northwest Medical Group in La Porte

Urologist, David Kraklau, M.D., joins Northwest Medical Group in La Porte On Monday, September 22 Northwest Health welcomed urologist, David Kraklau, M.D. to Northwest Medical Group. Dr. Kraklau joins Dr. Subba Rao Nagubadi at Northwest Medical Group – Urology and is seeing patients at the Medical Offices at Northwest...

Read More