[caption id="attachment_43405" align="alignright" width="250"] Memorial Hospital of South Bend President Larry Tracy hands a turkey to a Beacon associate.[/caption] To thank them for all their hard work and dedication over the past year, Beacon Health System last week handed out more than 5,000 turkeys to...
Starting December 1, 2020, three Memorial Hospital garages will use new, automatic parking terminals. This system will allow for more efficient flow in and out of the garages, and will help limit the potential exposure of associates, patients and visitors to infectious diseases, such as...
Beacon Health continues to have near-record levels of inpatient admissions with significant stress on its providers and staff throughout the organization. The health system is redeploying nursing staff and providers from outpatient areas to support its acute care facilities because of this. Many nonclinical staff...
Amber Hodges, an Elkhart General Hospital registered respiratory therapist, shares her perspective about caring for COVID patients who are about to die. "I honestly didn’t think this was going to be any worse than the flu. I just figured it was going to be something we...
Erin Fini, a certified respiratory therapist at Elkhart General Hospital, describes caring for COVID patients. "We have patients coming into the Elkhart General Emergency Department who are having trouble breathing by the carloads every day. We see patients who are young and old, patients who have...
We start this week with another record of 148 COVID-positive patients across our health system. Our staff continues to be stretched as we all step up to care for an ever-increasing number of people needing care. We continue to see an increase in the community spread of this virus and...
The team at Beacon Health would like to express our deepest condolences to the family, friends and the people in our communities who were touched by the life of Arthur J. Decio, as we have been. Arthur “Art” was a legend in this community. His impact...
We continue to see increasing numbers of COVID-positive patients across Beacon Health System. Numbers are increasing not only here in our region, but also across the state of Indiana. Today (Friday), Beacon is caring for 128 COVID-positive patients. Our staff continues to step up and...
[caption id="attachment_43081" align="alignleft" width="419"] Melissa Wolf, in the red mask, helps Luna aboard the Beacon Health Transport ambulance.[/caption] Melissa Wolf knew time was of the essence. The emergency medical technician pressed on the accelerator as she followed the police car in front of her. Keeping a close eye...
Partnership will provide expanded access to care across our region Three Rivers Health, based in southern Michigan, and Beacon Health System, based in northern Indiana, have signed a Letter of Intent to have Three Rivers Health join Beacon Health System in the spring of 2021, pending...
