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NIPSCO encourages customers to be energy savvy
Northwest Indiana’s utility company, NIPSCO, has created several programs to help customer’s be energy efficient. To practice what they preach, NIPSCO has also recently purchased four electric cars that employees use to travel to various community and company events.
IUN professor gets her students environmentally conscious
Ellen Szarleta sees the environmental challenges facing Northwest Indiana as representing opportunity. She teaches this philosophy to her students at Indiana University Northwest and practices it in her role as interim director of the university’s Center for Regional and Urban Excellence.
Clinic founder inspires nursing students to be compassionate
Margaret Stoffregen-DeYoung has been instrumental in bringing health care to the uninsured in Northwest Indiana. The veteran nurse was the first director of St. Clare Health Clinic in Crown Point, which takes care of those without insurance, and now inspires students at the University of St. Francis in Crown Point to realize the vital role nurses play in being caring, compassionate advocates for patients.
Students get schooled in dealing with diversity
Young people today live in much more diverse neighborhoods and schools than their parents. That is why learning how to deal with diversity is so important. Danny Lackey, as head of the diversity program for schools in Merrillville, Ind., creates various programs to teach students of various backgrounds how to live in a multicultural setting.
Quick job return after spinal procedure for back problem
In this scary job market, nobody is looking to be out of work long due to an injury. Robert Kuehl, of Hammond, Ind., worried what a back injury would mean for him being able to do what is required in his work repairing truck tires. Spine Care Specialists in Munster used a minimally invasive surgery that significantly cut the time he would need to be off work.
School nurse goes on to start clinic for uninsured
While a school nurse in a school district in Portage, Ind., Jan Wilson discovered that, for children, being uninsured doesn’t affect just their health, it affects their education. That was the motivation behind her helping to found what would become NorthShore Health Centers, which serves the uninsured, underinsured, people on Medicaid or holders of private insurance.
Grocery story chain immerses itself in the community
While Strack & Van Til Food Market, with more than a dozen stores in Northwest Ind., does not have a specific policy on corporate giving, it encourages its staff to look for ways to become involved in the communities where they work. The company also encourages its officers and supervisors to become involved in a cause in which they care about.
New IUN program addresses growing job demand in health information
Not everybody getting into health care is looking to be hands-on with patients. The job market is growing for careers in the management of health information and informatics in the health care setting. That has inspired Indiana University Northwest to introduce in spring 2012 semester a bachelor’s degree program in health information administration.
New approach to angiograms give more comfort to patients
A new approach to checking for blocked arteries to the heart, known as Transradial Angiography, allows for a more comfortable and safer experience for the patient. Methodist Hospitals in Northwest Indiana now offers this procedure which inserts a catheter through the wrist rather than the groin.
Health care center in Northwest Indiana offers services to insured and uninsured
Affording health care is challenging for most and impossible for many. Trying to help the situation in Northwest Indiana is NorthShore Health Centers, a federally funded community health care center offering quality services to the insured, uninsured and under-insured.
Top-notch rehab institute partners with Northwest Indiana hospitals
Patients at the four Franciscan Alliance hospitals in Northwest Indiana now have access to quality care offered by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago after a partnership was recently expanded.
Northwest Indiana experts in glaucoma, cataract surgery
Deschamps Eye Care, in Merrillville, Ind., specializes in the treatment of glaucoma, refractive surgery and no-stitch cataract surgery with lens implantation.
Special needs services for those of all ages
Children, youths and adults seeking special needs care can find programs set up by TradeWinds Services Inc.
Going the extra mile to get customers the right vacuum
The Henry Company has both sold and serviced vacuum cleaners in the Northwest Indiana region since 1939. The successful repair portion of the business (over 8,000 vacuums and carpet cleaners repaired per year) has allowed the third generation family-owned company to sell better quality merchandise. …
Ivy Tech offers a diversity of health care training
Jobs in the health care industry don’t just mean becoming a doctor or nurse. Ivy Tech Community College Northwest, in Northwest Indiana, offers career training in such health care environment skils as business operations, information technology and hospitality.