| 1928 | | School of nursing was opened August 1928 and closed 1950 |
| 1936 | | School of x-Ray
- First to be Approved in Indiana
- Twenty-ninth (29) in the United States
to be approved by American Medical Association,
American Society of X-Ray Technicians and
American College of Radiology
- Dr. Benjamin Braun First instructor
- Mary Knish Janoscek first student
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| 1939 | | First and only hospital in the calumet area to take care of polio patients
- Cared for two hundred fifty-four polio patients
from Lake/Porter Counties
- Unit closed in 1949
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| 1960 | | Cobalt 60 Radiation Therapy First in Area |
| 1961 | | Cardiac Cath Lab |
| 1961 | | Electrocardioversions (including Chicago) |
| 1962 | | Open Heart Surgery |
| 1966 | | Coronary Angiography in Chicago Area & State of Indiana- Dr. Wm. Shelton, Cleveland Clinic
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| 1967 | | Coronary Bypass (including Chicago)- Fellow from the U of C Rotated Through St. Catherine Cath Lab to Learn How to Perform Coronary Angiography
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| 1971 | | Echocardiographic Laboratory |
| 1971 | | Stress Test Laboratory |
| 1972 | | Electronic Pacemaker Clinic |
| 1972 | | Cardiovascular Surgical Intensive Care |
| 1972 | | Cardiac Rehabilitation Program |
| 1975 | | 1st in Northwest Indiana to treat with a Clinac 4 linear accelerator, operational December 1, 1975 |
| 1982 | | Intra-Coronary Streptokinase Procedures |
| 1982 | | Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) |
| 1982 | | Cardiac Cath Lab Offering Electrophysiology Studies |
| 1984 | | Digital Subtraction Angiography with Cardiac Capabilities |
| 1987 | | Northwest Indiana first Sleep Disorder Center |
| 1988 | | Color-Flow Doppler Echocardiography |
| 1988 | | Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (AICD) |
| 1989 | | Mobile Dornier extracorporeal shockwave lithotripter, in Northwest Indiana for Lakeshore Health System |
| 1992 | | Northwest Indiana first to offer electrophysiology studies |
| 1996 | | Intra-Vascular Ultrasound |
| 1997 | | Hand Center of St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago only hospital in Northwest Indiana with an E.R. dedicated to hand injuries |
| 1999 | | First Baby to be Delivered by a Midwife in Northwest Indiana |
| 1999 | | Introduction of the Families with Heart Disease Program/Advanced Lipids Testing |
| 2000 | | MRI with Cardiac Capabilities |
| 2005 | | CyberKnife- First in the State of Indiana and Chicagoland area
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