By Heidi Prescott, Media Relations Specialist Beacon Health SystemA young man from Plymouth, who was internally decapitated in a January car accident, has survived the traumatic injury that separated his skull from his spine, defied the odds, and is living a fairly normal life.This is a...
Elkhart General has achieved Comprehensive Center accreditation on behalf of the American College of Surgeons for the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accredited Quality Improvement Program....
Elkhart General Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Heart-Check mark for Advanced Certification for Primary Stroke Centers. The Gold Seal of Approval® and the Heart-Check mark represent symbols of quality from their respective organizations.“Elkhart...
Pediatric sepsis is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide as well as in the United States. It is one of principal reasons for admissions to the pediatric floors...
Memorial Hospital was one of two health care organizations from more than 800 nationally to receive the 2018 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Foundation (ACGME) and Gold Foundation DeWitt (Bud) C. Baldwin, Jr. Award for graduate medical education. ...
Early in his tenure at Elkhart General Hospital as vice president of Medical Staff Affairs, Don Jansen, MD, sat down with the Beacon Journal of Clinical Excellence to share more about his path in medicine, challenges facing physicians today and his vision of success in...
Beacon Health System announced plans on May 8, 2018, to break ground on a hospital with an emergency department on Beacon Parkway in Granger, across from Beacon Health & Fitness. At the same time, Beacon will welcome Community Hospital of Bremen to the health system....
Traveling from South Bend, Ind., to Papua New Guinea (PNG), Isaac Hatton, MD, took 40 hours and four flights, and covered 8,500 miles to reach the tropical island just north of Australia....
Although the roots of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) took hold initially in the health care industry several years ago as Medicare payment models, today ACOs are quickly spreading in commercial and private payer settings around the country....
Carlton Lyons, MD, FACOG, FPMRS, has practiced gynecology and urogynecology in South Bend, Ind., for more than 25 years. He is board-certified in both specialties...
Once in a generation, a groundbreaking technology comes along that dramatically changes the landscape of cardiovascular care. Forty years ago, it was angioplasty....
Soon after the initiation of virtual urgent care video visits through Beacon Connected Care in January 2017, Beacon Health System began a pilot program to bring its own physicians and providers onto the secure, web-based telehealth platform....