The Verified-Programs Close: Trauma, Stroke, and Psychiatry as Dated Standing

Item 11 · Boundary (serving hospitals) · Designations only, each dated or dated as standing

Lead: This section closes the way it was required to: with designations as verified standing, each dated, and no undated superlatives. Trauma. Memorial Hospital of South Bend stands as an ACS-verified Level II Trauma Center — so listed in the American College of Surgeons-derived trauma-center list, and so described by Beacon in its own current pages as “Northern Indiana's only ACS-verified Level II Trauma Center” and “the region's only Level II Trauma Center”; Beacon's dated comparator record is its 28 July 2021 release reverifying Elkhart General at Level III through 2023, which names Memorial, a Level II centre, and Elkhart as the only trauma centres in this part of Indiana. A competing claim is excluded, by name and with its conflict shown: a staffing-company page describes St. Joseph Mishawaka Medical Center as having “a Level II Trauma Center,” but Saint Joseph Mishawaka does not appear in the ACS-derived Indiana list, and the Indiana State Department of Health hospital consumer report for Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Mishawaka, records “Trauma Center (Certified): No” — the Level II claim for Mishawaka is therefore not carried as verified standing here. Stroke. Memorial first earned The Joint Commission's Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center certification in July 2019 — announced 23 August 2019 as the first and only such certification in Indiana at that date — and was recertified, announced 12 January 2024; the Indiana Department of Health stroke-center list confirms Memorial as a Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center, certifying entity The Joint Commission, and confirms Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center—Mishawaka, 5215 Holy Cross Parkway, as a Primary Stroke Center, certifying entity The Joint Commission. Psychiatry. No dated national psychiatry designation was found for either serving hospital, and none is invented here. What stands, dated at its origin, is provision: in March 2011 Memorial purchased the inpatient assets of the Madison Center, adding approximately 90 beds and starting an inpatient psychiatry program for adults and children as the Memorial Epworth Center; Beacon's current location page describes the Epworth Center, 420 N. Niles Avenue, South Bend, as operating a 50-bed psychiatric hospital for adults and adolescents ages 13 and above. That is the verified close: trauma and stroke carried as dated certifications, psychiatry carried as dated provision without a designation claim, and every first in this section left standing on the ground where it was actually earned — none of it in New Carlisle, all of it serving New Carlisle.

Sources:

1. Beacon Health System: Memorial Emergency Care Center and trauma pages (ACS-evaluated Level II standing; “region's only Level II Trauma Center”); Beacon news, 28 July 2021, Elkhart General reverified Level III through 2023 by the ACS Verification Review Committee, naming Memorial (Level II) and Elkhart as the only trauma centres in this part of Indiana; ACS-derived list of trauma centers in the United States (Indiana: Memorial Hospital of South Bend, Level II; no Saint Joseph Mishawaka entry).
2. Excluded claim and its conflicts: Vituity location page for St. Joseph Mishawaka Medical Center (“has a Level II Trauma Center”) vs. Indiana State Department of Health, Hospital Consumer Report for Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Mishawaka (“Trauma Center (Certified): No”) and the ACS-derived list above.
3. Beacon Health System news, 23 Aug. 2019: Memorial earns Advanced Certification as a Thrombectomy Capable Stroke Center, first and only in Indiana; news, 12 Jan. 2024: recertification, “first earned the certification in July 2019.” Indiana Department of Health, Indiana Stroke Centers list: Memorial — Thrombectomy-Capable, The Joint Commission; Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center—Mishawaka — Primary Stroke Center, The Joint Commission.
4. Psychiatry provision: Memorial Hospital history (March 2011 Madison Center inpatient-asset purchase, ~90 beds, inpatient psychiatry program as Memorial Epworth Center); Beacon location page, Memorial Epworth Center, 420 N. Niles Ave.: 50-bed psychiatric hospital, adults and adolescents 13+.