Renewing its commitment to serve the City of South Bend and surrounding communities for generations to come, Memorial Hospital of South Bend is launching one of the most transformative construction projects in its 129-year history. The new 10-story patient bed tower project will comprise seven new...
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Hippity hoppity, Easter is here! Our NICU babies at Beacon Children's Hospital received a very special visit from the Easter Bunny. Here are some of the adorable photos our staff captured during the bunny's recent stop to help the families of some of our youngest patients capture...
Beacon Health has received $4.8 million in grants from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to provide education and services that are focused on increasing COVID-19 vaccinations rates among Hispanic, Black and Amish residents of Elkhart, St. Joseph, LaPorte and Marshall counties. Collaborating with Saint...
Cheryl Scheidt wasn't feeling herself last year, unable to walk even 10 steps without losing her breath. She did the right thing by calling her doctor. He led her to cardiac and thoracic surgeon Amjad Syed, MD, at Elkhart General Hospital, who diagnosed a significant leak...
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We asked six doctors to reflect on the personal toll that COVID-19 has taken on them, and to describe the strength they have found caring for patients during the past two years. We asked that they put into words what Doctor's Day means to them...
[caption id="attachment_48129" align="alignright" width="380"] Jared Basker, 25, of South Bend, displays a watercolor painting done by his late great uncle, Edward Basker. Memorial Hospital associates recently found the painting in its archives.[/caption] For Jared Basker, the excitement of finding his great uncle Edward J. Basker’s paintings...
Three stars are a big deal when it comes to this heart procedure. And that’s what Elkhart General Hospital’s transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) program has earned – the highest rating possible – from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology. Walter Halloran, MD, Troy Weirick,...
"Match Day" is one of the most exciting times of the year for the Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency program. Today, the Residency team learned who will become part of our Beacon family. Programs like ours across the country take on the responsibility of guiding...
