Fort Wayne-based system looks to build $200M hospital in Purdue Research Park, near the $3.87B SK hynix semiconductor site. The hospital plans are the fourth in the works for West Lafayette.
I followed this link. I would recommend that many more person read what the Parkview Health operations have been like in northeastern Indana and northwestern Ohio. There is truly some eye-opening and distressing information in that news story,.
Do we need 4 hospitals in West Lafayette? How about one big one with an emergency department and surgical center with in-patient rooms? The other thing the area needs is a long term acute care that can accommodate people on a ventilator so families don't have to travel to Indianapolis. I can tell you, it's awful.
Thanks to Dave Bangert for bringing us the most updated news for our region so swiftly. I'm sure I would not be so well informed if not for this subscription. How do you find all this out before so many other outlets can publish it? Excellent research and reporting, Dave.
If one or two of the four actually get built, that will be a significant improvement over West Lafayette's zero emergency rooms. I doubt that the first announced project, Ascension St. Vincent's ER with a few inpatient beds at US 231 & Airport Road, will ever get built since the project has been stalled (with zero on-site construction) for three years. I also wonder if Franciscan's ER-only facility (US 231 & Cumberland) will now want to compete with two planned nearby hospitals (IU Health and Parkland) that are both going to be larger facilities with more services (at least according to the announcements). I'm very glad that Mayor Easter and Purdue officials have been courting these investments — but until they actually open, these all feel more like vaporware (announced software that never ships).
And presumably that no-shoulders part of Kalberer will be the main route ambulances roar through from 231. Not a good traffic location, just like I said when we called it Site A.
West Lafayette deserves ready access to hospitals. And choice is good. I don't live on that side of the river, but because Purdue employees will contribute to the patient numbers, let's hope that there are agreements in place to make these preferred facilities under insurance.
Agreed. I have no idea if the land Ascension St. Vincent planned to use for an ER with a few inpatient beds at US 231 & Airport Road would be large enough for a full-featured hospital … but if it is, in my view that location would be fantastic for the IU Health hospital. Ascension St. Vincent was apparently already having difficulty making the economics work — which is presumably why they haven't even started building the ER that they had initially announced would be in business by 2024. It might be better for everyone for Ascension to simply say "Yeah, sorry, this isn't the right time for us to be in West Lafayette." I think it would be great to see IU Health's new hospital either in that spot or somewhere on the US 231 corridor.
I kinda like the microhospital idea at that location. It is like a privatized way to upgrade PUSH into something that can serve both injured (drunk) students and the faculty member who suffers a cardiovascular event upon learning his grant was yanked because DOGE said he used a "woke font" in the application.
Wondering also if proximity to the airport might be a plus or pose a problem for medical transport to a full hospital. If the top of a tall-ish building isn't used, the helipad has a sizable footprint. Not sure how much that is used at McCarty though.
Near the 231/52 junction would be good for a full hospital, especially if that intersection ends up being connected to I-65 (not sure if I recall the 231 extension plan correctly). Meijer would once again have attracted a hospital.
Clearly I played too much Sim City back in the day.
Yes, I would be happy if the full-service IU Health hospital ends up near the 231/Sagamore Parkway junction … or really anywhere along the US 231 corridor. You are correct that the county's 2050 transportation plan suggests a new "northern corridor connection" that extends US 231 north up to I-65. If that ever happens, it would be next to the west-side Meijer and immediately next to the new McDonald's. But like West Lafayette's 231 corridor itself, such a project might take decades to get done — if it ever gets done.
I'm not sure we should be happy about Parkview Health moving in. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/17/indiana-medical-debt-parkview-hospital
I followed this link. I would recommend that many more person read what the Parkview Health operations have been like in northeastern Indana and northwestern Ohio. There is truly some eye-opening and distressing information in that news story,.
Do we need 4 hospitals in West Lafayette? How about one big one with an emergency department and surgical center with in-patient rooms? The other thing the area needs is a long term acute care that can accommodate people on a ventilator so families don't have to travel to Indianapolis. I can tell you, it's awful.
That is rough. It will be even harder to run a long-term care facility after Medicaid cuts kick in.
At this point I won’t believe it until I actually see at least one of these announced facilities open and taking patients.
Thanks to Dave Bangert for bringing us the most updated news for our region so swiftly. I'm sure I would not be so well informed if not for this subscription. How do you find all this out before so many other outlets can publish it? Excellent research and reporting, Dave.
If one or two of the four actually get built, that will be a significant improvement over West Lafayette's zero emergency rooms. I doubt that the first announced project, Ascension St. Vincent's ER with a few inpatient beds at US 231 & Airport Road, will ever get built since the project has been stalled (with zero on-site construction) for three years. I also wonder if Franciscan's ER-only facility (US 231 & Cumberland) will now want to compete with two planned nearby hospitals (IU Health and Parkland) that are both going to be larger facilities with more services (at least according to the announcements). I'm very glad that Mayor Easter and Purdue officials have been courting these investments — but until they actually open, these all feel more like vaporware (announced software that never ships).
Conveniently located next to Tippecanoe Memory Gardens... just in case.
me when i play cities skylines
And presumably that no-shoulders part of Kalberer will be the main route ambulances roar through from 231. Not a good traffic location, just like I said when we called it Site A.
West Lafayette deserves ready access to hospitals. And choice is good. I don't live on that side of the river, but because Purdue employees will contribute to the patient numbers, let's hope that there are agreements in place to make these preferred facilities under insurance.
That is a LOT of imaginary hospitals! Surely one or two now have no shot at economic viability.
Agreed. I have no idea if the land Ascension St. Vincent planned to use for an ER with a few inpatient beds at US 231 & Airport Road would be large enough for a full-featured hospital … but if it is, in my view that location would be fantastic for the IU Health hospital. Ascension St. Vincent was apparently already having difficulty making the economics work — which is presumably why they haven't even started building the ER that they had initially announced would be in business by 2024. It might be better for everyone for Ascension to simply say "Yeah, sorry, this isn't the right time for us to be in West Lafayette." I think it would be great to see IU Health's new hospital either in that spot or somewhere on the US 231 corridor.
I kinda like the microhospital idea at that location. It is like a privatized way to upgrade PUSH into something that can serve both injured (drunk) students and the faculty member who suffers a cardiovascular event upon learning his grant was yanked because DOGE said he used a "woke font" in the application.
Wondering also if proximity to the airport might be a plus or pose a problem for medical transport to a full hospital. If the top of a tall-ish building isn't used, the helipad has a sizable footprint. Not sure how much that is used at McCarty though.
Near the 231/52 junction would be good for a full hospital, especially if that intersection ends up being connected to I-65 (not sure if I recall the 231 extension plan correctly). Meijer would once again have attracted a hospital.
Clearly I played too much Sim City back in the day.
Yes, I would be happy if the full-service IU Health hospital ends up near the 231/Sagamore Parkway junction … or really anywhere along the US 231 corridor. You are correct that the county's 2050 transportation plan suggests a new "northern corridor connection" that extends US 231 north up to I-65. If that ever happens, it would be next to the west-side Meijer and immediately next to the new McDonald's. But like West Lafayette's 231 corridor itself, such a project might take decades to get done — if it ever gets done.
Most definitely there will not be four.