When Franciscan Alliance closed its Hammond campus completely at the end of 2022, it left the city’s downtown without significant, easy access to a center handling acute health care needs.
Formerly known as St. Margaret’s, the hospital has been part of Hammond since 1898, only 14 years after the city itself became incorporated.There are still acute care hospitals in the communities surrounding Hammond, such as St. Catherine’s Hospital in East Chicago and Community Hospital in Munster.
“2022 ended up being the worst year for hospital finances since the beginning of the pandemic,” Erik Swanson, senior vice president of data and analytics at Kaufman Hall, a healthcare management and consulting firm, said in a video conference Wednesday. “It has a damaging effect on the residents of Hammond, but it also has a damaging effect on the residents of Munster and Highland and Dyer because it’s going to affect all the hospital care throughout the North Township,” Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott said.
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