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Extraordinary People
“2008 Remarkable Image of Caring Award” and “2008 Nursing Excellence Award” presented at Community Hospital
(6/8/2008)
Community Healthcare System graphic artist honored for book design
(4/14/2008)
War memorial to be rededicated as the Edward P. Robinson Community Veterans Memorial on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 3
(8/24/2007)
Donald Torrenga of Torrenga Engineering has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana
(8/9/2007)
William A. Hasse III, of Hasse Construction Company, has been appointed to the Board of Directors for Community Hospital in Munster
(8/9/2007)
Community Hospital’s Pam Kaczmarski is recognized by the Lake Area United Way for her fund raising efforts
(6/29/2007)
"2007 Remarkable Image of Caring Award" and "2007 Nursing Excellence Award" presented at Community Hospital
(5/23/2007)
The Community Hospital Fitness PointeSM program manager receives premier state award for helping students improve their health
(2/14/2007)
Community Hospital and St. Catherine Hospital auxiliaries receive excellence award from Indiana Hospital & Health Auxiliaries Association
(2/14/2007)
Physical Therapists at The Community Hospital Fitness Pointe earn certification as clinical specialists in orthopedic physical therapy
(10/23/2006)
Extraordinary Care
Children at Community Hospital are given surgical caps just like their doctors and nurses wear
(1/8/2008)
Community Healthcare System laboratories receives accreditation from College of American Pathologists
(12/11/2007)
Community Hospital receives three year accreditation from American College of Radiology for MAGNETOM Symphony MRI
(11/20/2007)
Community Hospital and St. Catherine get good marks for treating heart failure
(9/10/2007)
Community Hospital is awarded a three-year term of accreditation for ultrasound from The American College of Radiology (ACR)
(8/27/2007)
Community Hospital is among eight hospitals statewide to implement American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease Program
(10/24/2006)
Community Hospital named a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac CareSM by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana
(10/20/2006)
Initial Results of the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR) Released: Osteoporosis Drug Raloxifene Shown to be as Effective as Tamoxifen in Preventing Invasive Breast Cancer
(4/17/2006)
Giving Back
Vanis Salon raises $7,617 for Cancer Resource Centre
(5/2/2008)
Munster eighth grader donates items she knitted to the Cancer Resource Centre in Munster
(1/3/2008)
Griffith High School DECA students donate 200 DVDs and VHS movies to Community Hospital’s Pediatrics Unit
(12/26/2007)
Munster Girls Volleyball Team donates nearly $200 to the Cancer Resource Centre
(12/10/2007)
Community Healthcare System’s Day at the RailCats raises $6,595 for the Community Cancer Research Foundation
(7/25/2007)
Community Hospital nurses donate $12,661 to Cancer Resource Centre
(6/25/2007)
The Cancer Resource Centre’s “Knit One…Nurture Too,” a group of cancer survivors, donates afghans to CAPES House
(5/25/2007)
Ron Kittle’s Indiana Sports Charities donates $40,000 to cancer research at Community Hospital
(5/21/2007)
Community Hospital nurses design 40 baskets of various themes as fund raiser for the Cancer Resource Centre
(5/7/2007)
Community Hospital Auxiliary makes $25,000 donation of $50,000 pledge to hospital’s Medical Technology Endowment Fund, largest pledge to that fund
(4/12/2007)
Community Healthcare Physicians drum up donation for Cancer Centre
(5/15/2006)
New Facilities
Community Hospital’s groundbreaking for new Emergency Department and patient tower is Tuesday
(7/23/2007)
Community Hospital to construct $32 million expansion
(7/11/2007)
Community Hospital groundbreaking for Post Partum private rooms is May 3
(5/2/2007)
New Programs / Services
Community Healthcare System hospitals introduce special card from cancer survivors to support recently diagnosed cancer patients
(5/31/2007)
Certified Therapy Dog helps patients in Speech, Physical, and Occupational Therapy at Community Hospital
(3/27/2007)
New Technology - Cancer Care
Breast MRI biopsy now available at Community Hospital Women’s Diagnostic Center
(4/28/2008)
Procedure puts the freeze on kidney cancer
(4/24/2008)
Community Hospital offers area’s most advanced technology for conventional radiation therapy
(6/5/2007)
Community Hospital Women's Diagnostic Center Offers Digital Mammogram Technology
(8/28/2006)
New Technology - da Vinci
Dr. Howard Marcus is among only 64 surgeons nationwide to use the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System to perform less invasive hysterectomies
(1/17/2007)
Community Healthcare System offers minimally invasive state-of-the-art technology for prostate surgery
(8/1/2006)
New Technology - Diagnostics
Community Hospital is first in Northwest Indiana and among first in the country to offer a CT system that uses two x-ray sources to provide the best CT images in the world
(4/4/2007)
New Technology - Heart and Vascular Care
Advanced technology at Community Healthcare System hospitals helps steady the heartbeat
(4/30/2008)
Community Hospital is first in Chicagoland, and among the first in the country to offer new treatment for Peripheral Artery Disease
(9/11/2007)
Community Hospital is one of only 10 sites in U.S. to enroll patients in clinical trial to evaluate restoring blood flow to the lower legs
(6/13/2007)
New technology at St. Mary Medical Center maps out bright future for AFIB patients
(5/7/2007)
Community Hospital is one of only 20 sites in the nation where a new, pre-FDA approved device for P.A.D. is being studied
(2/22/2007)
St. Mary Medical Center sets pace in heart monitoring
(2/12/2007)
Community hospital first to use 'cool' new tool
(3/20/2006)
Community Hospital first to use new technology for treatment of AAA
(1/11/2006)
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