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.
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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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
Conveniently located next to Tippecanoe Memory Gardens... just in case.
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.
That is a LOT of imaginary hospitals! Surely one or two now have no shot at economic viability.
Most definitely there will not be four.