The hospital map as it stands

November 2026

Two foundings, two roads: The map this record closes on is the one the two founding lines drew. In the city: Beacon Health System, headquartered in South Bend, holds the Methodist line whole — Memorial Hospital on the Michigan Street campus, in phased occupation of its new tower; Beacon Children's Hospital beside it; and the Memorial Epworth Center on Niles Avenue, the county's inpatient psychiatry, with Oaklawn — the county's designated community mental health center since 2010 — running its crisis center in the same Epworth building. Across the city line in Mishawaka stands the Catholic line's successor, Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, under Trinity Health — present in South Bend only through the Brannick health center and its Carmichael Drive imaging and rehabilitation service, the hospital itself departed since December 2009. South Bend has no veterans' hospital; the area's VA clinic, the Jackie Walorski VA Clinic, stands in Mishawaka, and its record belongs to the Veterans history of this history. The arc is the one the entries tell: a sisters' hospital of 1882 and a women's-societies hospital of 1894 divided the city's care for over a century; the one consolidated into a system the city itself owns and houses, and grew a tower; the other moved away, and left a clinic named for a nurse. The open points stand where the entries left them — the tower's remaining floors in the spring of 2027, the behavioral health consolidation announced for 1 December 2026 — and they belong, when they close, to this record's next update.

Sources:

1. The entries of this section and their sources, gathered: the Indiana Department of Health consumer reports of 2025 for both licenses; Beacon Health System's current locations record; and the Saint Joseph Health System / Trinity Health accounts of the Mishawaka successor's South Bend services.
2. Veterans record of this history — the Jackie Walorski VA Clinic in Mishawaka, cross-referenced here in one line as briefed.