Long-Term Acute Care at Lindenvale, 2007

Announced 2007 · In the state's reports 2015–2017 · Closing not in the record reached

The announcement: In 2007 the South Bend Tribune announced a new acute-care hospital for Mishawaka of a kind the city had not held: "A hospital for what is described as 'the most ill, the most injured patients' will occupy the former Lindenvale facility on the St. Joseph River at the end of Byrkit Avenue. 'The majority of patients will come from intensive care in other hospitals…'" The Physician's Hospital Group project, welcomed by Mayor Jeff Rea at one hundred to one hundred thirty-five new jobs, was a long-term acute care hospital — the LTACH, the form of hospital that takes the patient who has survived the intensive care unit but not recovered: weeks of ventilator weaning, wound care and medically complex recovery, at lengths of stay no general hospital ward is built around. Its arrival is a practice fact before it is an institutional one, and the institutional course does not stand in the hospitals file at all — the gap is flagged at the end of this entry.

The hospital in the state's own figures:In 2015 it reported thirty-two medical and surgical beds, 362 discharges and 8,325 patient days. In 2016: thirty-two beds, 310 discharges, 8,108 patient days, charges of $50,317,952 and eighty-four full-time-equivalent staff. In 2017: thirty-two beds, 290 discharges, 8,490 patient days. The arithmetic of those figures is the practice stated in numbers: a hospital discharging some three hundred patients a year on eight thousand-plus patient days keeps each patient on average between three and four weeks — the long-term acute signature, printed from the state's figures rather than from any brochure. Kindred was not the only house of the form on Mishawaka ground in those years: the system's own joint-venture record of 2010 names a second, the thirty-two-bed long-term acute hospital on a campus of Saint Joseph's — Our Lady of Peace, carried in the South Bend record and at boundary size in the hospitals file.

The closing, and the flag: When Kindred Hospital Northern Indiana closed is not in the record reached: it stands in the state reports through 2017 and does not stand in the state's 2025 list of the county's facilities as the hospitals file prints that list, and no closing date, announcement or successor use was reached. The settling sources stand named: the state hospital service report run 2008–2024 read whole, and the Kindred and ScionHealth divestiture record. ASSEMBLY FLAG: the hospitals file of this build, which carries the county's hospital ground whole, omits this hospital entire — a licensed thirty-two-bed hospital that operated in Mishawaka for at least the decade the state reports document. The omission is flagged here for the hospitals file's next update; this section carries the practice entry and the flag, and does not edit the hospitals file.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune, 2007, as catalogued in the ProQuest and Mishawaka-Penn-Harris library newspaper record ("Mishawaka gaining new acute-care hospital; Physician's Hospital Group taps former Lindenvale facility"; the quotations as catalogued).
2. Indiana State Department of Health, Hospital Service Reports 2015, 2016 and 2017 (Kindred Hospital Northern Indiana, provider 15-2018: beds, discharges, patient days, charges and staffing as reported).
3. RehabCare Group and Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, joint-venture release, third quarter 2010 (the Rehabilitation Institute's December 2009 opening; "Triumph Hospital Our Lady of Peace, a 32-bed LTACH located on an additional campus of Saint Joseph's").
4. The hospitals file of this build (the state's 2025 county facilities list as printed there; Our Lady of Peace at boundary size).