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The leaving, dated across its years: Saint Joseph's Hospital was the first institution in South Bend to care for the sick, established in 1882 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross — the religious order's founding Health & Care's frame already names as the county's first hospital tradition — and for a century and a quarter its campus stood in South Bend, latterly as Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center. The departure was announced years before it happened: by 2005 the Tribune's reporting had the medical center's South Bend hospital slated to close in a few years and its replacement rising in Mishawaka, with the corporation's existing clinics in both cities to remain open and some three hundred jobs to remain downtown — and with the indigent-care question asked in print at the time, the hospital answering that the uninsured would be steered to existing clinics nearby, the Chapin Street clinic of the previous article among them. Our Lady of Peace, the long-term acute-care hospital leasing space in the South Bend building, moved ahead of the flag, transferring to the Mishawaka building in late 2008. The replacement itself is dated by its builders: a new 254-bed Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center — 663,000 square feet of hospital and 155,000 square feet of medical office building, a $224 million project to HOK's design — opened on the ninety-acre Edison Lakes Medical Campus at 5215 Holy Cross Parkway, Mishawaka, in January 2010 (the design record dates the opening January 6, 2010), and the South Bend campus closed into it; the register's 2008–2009 span is the transition's working span — announcement-era moves and the patient transfer's year — and the January 2010 opening is the event that completed it, both printed as their records give them. The institution carried its memory with it: the historical marker honoring the Holy Cross sisters' Civil War nursing, dedicated in 1965 near the old Madison Street hospital, was moved to the Mishawaka campus and rededicated there on September 9, 2013, before the new hospital's main entrance cross. The after-course is short: in May 2015 the region's Trinity Health ministries united as Saint Joseph Health System, a ministry of Trinity Health, with the Mishawaka Medical Center — 254 beds, as it stands today — as its acute-care flagship and a 58-bed hospital at Plymouth beside it. South Bend, which had held two hospital traditions since 1894, has held one since the winter of 2009–2010; the hospital Osceola's Catholic cases had used for a century now stands in Mishawaka, nearer the township than the seat it left — the one departure in this section that moved care closer to this ground.
Sources: Saint Joseph Health System (sjmed.com) — Saint Joseph's Hospital established 1882 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, the first institution in South Bend to care for the sick; the present 254-bed Mishawaka campus and 58-bed Plymouth campus. South Bend Tribune (2005; 2010), via the Michiana newspaper catalogue — the announced South Bend closing, clinics remaining open, three hundred downtown jobs, the indigent-care exchange, Our Lady of Peace's 2008 move to the Mishawaka building. e-architect / HOK project record (January 2010) — the replacement facility opened in Mishawaka: 254 beds, 663,000 square feet, $224 million, Edison Lakes campus. Today's Catholic (October 1, 2013) — the Civil War sister-nurses marker moved from Madison Street and rededicated at the Mishawaka campus, September 9, 2013. Saint Joseph Health System formation release (May 15, 2015) — the Trinity Health ministries united; Mishawaka Medical Center at 254 beds.