Jon Gilmore, president and CEO of Tonn and Blank Construction, said steel began going up for the project last week, and motorists will be able to see the landmark hospital
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Hospitals in Northwest Indiana have been at the center of the Regionâs response to COVID-19 throughout the yearlong global pandemic.
They put off elective surgeries and other non-urgent treatments last year to repurpose space for extra intensive care beds during several peak periods of coronavirus infection. Currently they are injecting hundreds of people each day with the COVID-19 vaccine that everyone hopes will bring an end to the health care emergency.
A rendering of the new Franciscan Health hospital in Crown Point shows the main entrance of the hospital. Provided
Through it all though, some Region hospital leaders have had to keep one eye on the present and another looking toward the future, as several major hospital and health care construction projects currently underway promise to make available more dynamic and innovative treatment options for Northwest Indiana residents in a post-pandemic world.