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The next time you or a loved one is a patient at Porter, you should notice a subtle difference. Not loud or boisterous, the change has to do with what you won’t hear.  Believing that quiet promotes healing; Porter has quietly instituted a...

For two weeks, Porter physicians Vikram D. Appannagari, M.D., and Nicholas Retson, M.D., along with seven local nurses took their humanitarian efforts to the northern reaches of India, performing nearly 40 surgeries over five days. In doing so, the...

May 18, 2009 Maureen Hughes, RN, BSN, has been named the new Director of Nursing for Orthopedic and Oncology Nursing Units at Porter Valparaiso Hospital Campus. Hughes came to Porter from Ingalls Memorial Hospital where she was a Patient Care Manager...

From the Spring 2008 issue of StayHealthy Magazine Natalie Eddy loves to tell people how she fell in love with nursing first in her role as a critical care nurse and now with her career as a nurse practitioner at Porter's Chesterton Medical Campus....

Spring 2009 NICU staff had the honor of meeting with the creative St. Agnes Day Service Center ladies and gentlemen who provide the unit with hand crafted blankets. St. Agnes center provides safety, health care, personal care and meaningful...

Winter 2009 When Porter Pharmacist Jeff Chin heard that Mandy Firnhaber had suffered a traumatic brain injury as the result of an automobile accident just before the Thanksgiving holiday in 2005, he offered to help in whatever way he could. "Mandy...

Horizon Gymnastics Center offers a gymnastics class for girls and boys ages 10 - 25 who have developmental delay diagnosis.  Students will participate in a variety of fitness activities including flexibility & strength skills, tumbling, balance...