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Community Message Healthcare: Your Way Bringing you the latest in medical advances W hat's new, you ask? We are pleased John Gorski to share with you in this issue information on new technology and new outpatient centers that will make it easier to access our services closer to your home and work. As not-for-profit hospitals, Community Hospital, St. Catherine Hospital and St. Mary Medical Center continue to reinvest revenues into their facilities and their surrounding communities to enhance the services available to everyone. Our hospitals have opened Immediate Care Centers with St. Catherine Hospital's Family Care Center in the Hessville neighborhood of Hammond, St. Mary Medical Center's Valparaiso Health Center in Valparaiso and, in addition to St. John, a new Community Hospital Outpatient Center in Schererville. These are just some of the ways we are bringing quality, convenient healthcare to you when you need it. When it comes to improving patient care behind the scenes, our hospitals' laboratory services have changed processes (page 4) in order to ensure diagnoses are more accurate and efficient and provide information to our physicians and healthcare team more quickly than ever before. The right combination of technology, resources and an extraordinary team of healthcare professionals is also changing the breast cancer treatment experience at the Women's Diagnostic Center in Munster (page 50). Read how Maria Lopez benefited from new technology, called PEM, that answered questions and got her on the right track to treatment and recovery. New MRI technology at St. Catherine Hospital (page 52) is making the entire patient experience easier, less stressful from start to finish. Open MRI machines, such as the wide-bore style at St. Catherine's, are far less constricting-open on the sides with the patient's entire body not enclosed by the machine. With every advance, we have an opportunity to make your care a safer and more comfortable experience. Designed with maximum comfort and healing in mind, St. Mary Medical Center's new $40 million, two-story surgical pavilion (page 54) features state-of-the-art technology that provides the most innovative procedures for the best outcomes. We'll continue to add programs and services so you won't have to look any further than your own neighborhood for the highest-quality healthcare. John Gorski Chief Operating Officer Community Healthcare System 2 WINTE R 2 013 CommunitY HealtHCare SYStem President and Ceo, Vice Chairman of the Board Donald S. Powers Board of Directors Frankie L. Fesko, chairman of the board; James J. Richards, secretary; David E. Wickland, treasurer; Steven Beering, MD; David Bochnowski; Joseph E. Costanza; Daniel Dumezich; William Hasse; Richard S. McClaughry; Michael Mellon; Joseph T. Morrow; Sister Kathleen Quinn; Monsignor Joseph Semancik; M. 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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Vim & Vigor - Winter 2013 - Community Healthcare

Vim & Vigor - Winter 2013 - Community Healthcare
Contents
Community Message
Community Briefs
Timely Answers, Quality Treatment
Breathing for Bonnie
Powered by Patients
Got Excuses?
Managing Your Health with a DIY Tool Kit
Is It the Stress Talking?
The Wonderful World of Greens
Knee-to-Know Basics
On the Cover
Run for Your Life
14 Good-for-You Gifts
Special Delivery
Virtual Health
SPOTLIGHT ON: Community Hospital
SPOTLIGHT ON: St. Catherine Hospital
SPOTLIGHT ON: St. Mary Medical Center
Getting Babies ‘Back’ to Sleep

Vim & Vigor - Winter 2013 - Community Healthcare