Home  General Information  About the Hospital Visitor Guide Community Programs Healthcare Issues Looking for a Doctor Insurance Plans Healthcare Careers Specialty Centers Community     Oncology Center Family Birthing     Center Fitness Pointe Women's Diagnostic     Center 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) Click Here to access our press release archives.

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