Beacon Health System

“In our local hospitals, we’re seeing quite an increase over this last week in the number of folks who are testing positive for influenza, though I will say it’s nice that the number of folks hospitalized with influenza is a little bit lower this week than it was in the last couple of weeks,” Dr. Jason Marker said in a Beacon Health System YouTube video Wednesday.

A Nurse Practitioner with Beacon Medical Group discusses lung cancer awareness month and the importance of screening

Beacon Health System launches a food relief collaborative to address rising food insecurity across northern Indiana communities.

“So in the past, when we worked together, whether it was in trauma or our NICU or maternal care, we would do these on a one-off basis, whereas this creates a system and a structure that allows research opportunities, when they present, to kind of be accelerated through the process,” said Beacon Health System Chief Operating Officer Mark Brett.

Notre Dame associate professor Joyce Adams says new mothers need to be seen by a doctor sooner than six weeks after delivery. Her pilot project with 104 new mothers in the area will give them monthly visits with a nurse and community health worker over the baby's first year.

St. Joseph County’s new “Babies Need to Breathe” campaign aims to eliminate sleep-related infant deaths by 2027 through education and safe sleep practices.

Beacon Health System is branching out in Southwest Michigan

Katie Budzius is a Fitness Coordinator for Beacon Health and Fitness in Granger who discusses staying active while working

Holiday stress and how to manage it with Family Nurse Practitioner Rachel Knafel from Beacon Medical Group in Goshen