Gary hospital celebrates trauma status

[In Gary] hospital officials and community leaders on Monday celebrated Methodist Hospitals Northlake campus’ designation as an in-process Level III trauma center, with some calling for the hospital to pursue an even higher level of care.

The Indiana EMS Commission last month approved the state health commissioner’s recommendation to grant the hospital the in-process designation.

It means the hospital can treat the Region’s sickest patients while it pursues a full Level III designation, a label the American College of Surgeons bestows, within two years…Please click here to read Vanessa Renderman’s story in the Times.