Franciscan Health

Franciscan St. Margaret Health-Hammond has received 5 stars for the quality of its treatment of Heart Failure for the 7th consecutive year from Healthgrades, the leading online resource that helps consumers search, compare and connect with physicians...

Franciscan Alliance’s certified chaplains are reaching beyond hospital walls to their websites to offer a new resource to those in need of a spiritual helping hand. An E-Chaplaincy program, launched Oct. 21 in conjunction with the observance of...

Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City will conduct a free Diabetes Education and Health Fair from 8 to 11 a.m. Oct. 26 at its Coolspring Health Center, 1225 E. Coolspring Ave. (entrance C). Lyn Stevens, a Doctor of Nurse Practice, will present...

Cervical cancer screenings will be available at no cost from 8 a.m. to noon Nov. 2 at Woodland Cancer Care Center, 8955 West 400 North. Women who are or who have been sexually active, or who have reached age 21, are encouraged to receive a pap smear...

Approximately 140 representatives of Northwest Indiana and Central Indiana-area hospitals, home care services and students, attended a first-ever Franciscan Alliance Respiratory Symposium Oct. 16 at Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point. The...

Franciscan Alliance’s Spirit of Women program will offer a free Little Black Dress health event from 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 7 at Sand Creek Country Club, 1001 Sand Creek Drive. “Just like the classic little black dress, vibrant health is always in...

Michael Marasco, a 33-year staff doctor of podiatric medicine with Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point, who also has a private practice in Merrillville, where he is shown; was invited to address physicians from more than 40 nations at the World...

Deacon Bill Walsh, a chaplain at Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City, officiates at a blessing and dedication ceremony Oct. 11 for a new employee and community garden area, created through free-of-charge efforts of Tonn and Blank Construction...

Franciscan Alliance’s Franciscan Physician Network will host an “Evening of Beauty” event Oct. 23. The program, featuring a 6 p.m. presentation by Chad Glazer, M.D., an ear, nose and throat and facial plastic surgeon, will take place at the...

Sister Jane Marie Klein, OSF, chairperson of the Franciscan Alliance Board of Trustees, was among speakers, also among them Most Rev. Dale Melczek, bishop of the Gary Diocese (also shown); who addressed some 950 area parochial students Oct. 8 at an...