LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Home Hospital Emergency Department will be closing and moving to St. Elizabeth East, located at 1701 S. Creasy Lane, Lafayette. The Home Hospital Emergency Department will permanently close its doors at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. The new Emergency Care Center at St. Elizabeth East will begin seeing patients at 7 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010.
During the 32-hour period between the closing of the Home Hospital Emergency Department and the opening of the Emergency Care Center at St. Elizabeth East, patients seeking emergency care from St. Elizabeth Regional Health should utilize the St. Elizabeth Central Emergency Care Center at 1501 Hartford Street, Lafayette.
The new St. Elizabeth East hospital will also open 7 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25. St. Elizabeth East features: 150 private inpatient rooms, a state-of the-art Heart Center, 14 Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit suites, the regions only dedicated Pediatric Center and a Women’s Center with single room maternity care suites. For more information, visit their Web site at http://www.ste.org

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — On Jan. 1, 2010, Home Hospital Home Health Care was renamed St. Elizabeth Home Health Care.
Thomas L. Summer, M.D., Lafayette Surgical Clinic and the St. Elizabeth Breast Center, will address the new guidelines that were issued on Nov. 16 by the United State Preventive Services Task Force. Madelyn G. Lefranc, M.D., of the St. Elizabeth Breast Center, will discuss the American College of Radiology’s guidelines. Stacy Rogers, associate director of the Wabash Valley Chapter of the American Cancer Society, will also talk about the importance of mammograms. A question and answer session will follow the presentations.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Home Hospital Home Health and St. Clare Home Health Care – both divisions of St. Elizabeth Regional Health – have been named to 2009 HomeCare Elite’s Top 500 Agency listing, a compilation of the most successful Medicare-certified home health care providers in the United States. This annual review identifies the top 500 agencies, ranked by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance.

