The Practice as It Stands, November 2026

November 2026 · From the hospital's own record and the state's

The hospital: Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center stands on Holy Cross Parkway under Indiana license 25-005012-1, expiring 31 December 2026, its set-up beds counted at 294 in the state's 2025 consumer report against the 254 of its opening program and the 253 of the federal cost-report directory — the bed figures' conflict stands in the hospitals file and is not re-litigated here. The state report's service answers give the practice skeleton: anesthesia, yes; chemotherapy, yes; an extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripter, yes; a non-surgical cardiac intensive care unit, no; a certified trauma center, no. The recruiting paper's scale figures print at their strength: twelve operating rooms, two of them obstetric; between five and ten thousand surgical cases a year; more than a thousand obstetric cases; some two hundred cardiac cases a year, covered by cardiovascular specialists.

The certified and the claimed: What verifies stands first. The perinatal service holds the state's Level III certification with Perinatal Center standing, expiring October 2028 — this section's one first, the 2012 laborist program, and its one state-validated level of care. Robotic surgery stands in the service lines, undated. The Wound Healing Center stands under the license on Douglas Road, award in hand, its hyperbaric service at the two strengths printed above. The stroke unit stands as the system's undated claim; the trauma levels stand disproven on the official record; and alongside the general hospital the ground holds the practice's other forms at their files' sizes: the twenty-nine-bed physician-owned surgical hospital and the forty-bed rehabilitation hospital at Edison Lakes, the behavioral hospital on Jefferson Boulevard, Oaklawn's Children's Campus on the 1882 ground, and the hospice campus in the hospitals file — the fullest hospital ground in the county, on the record the build has banked.

The close: Mishawaka began institutional medicine with three sisters nursing from a convent in 1878. Its advancements, assembled, are these: it taught its own nurses from 1919; it built a paramedic program other cities copied; it took long-term acute care in 2007 and a paperless hospital in 2009; it adopted the laborist model first in its region, on its system's account, in 2012, and had its perinatal care certified at the state's highest regional level in 2019, a certification the state's list still carries. It has, on the record reached, no invention and no discoverer to its name — and the file prints that absence as plainly as the arrivals, because the arrivals are the record.

Sources:

1. Indiana Department of Health, Hospital Consumer Report for Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, 2025 (license number and expiration; set-up beds; the service questionnaire; the Wound Healing Center under the license).
2. Indiana Department of Health, Perinatal Levels of Care list, February 2026 (the Level III standing, expiring October 2028).
3. Saint Joseph Health System, services and recruiting records, current November 2026 (robotic services; operating rooms and case volumes at recruiting strength).
4. The hospitals file of this build (the bed-figure conflict; the Edison Lakes, Jefferson Boulevard and hospice houses at their sizes).