Neighborhood hospitals bridge a persistent gap, offering quick service and serving as a middle ground between larger hospitals and urgent care centers. “We are responding to the community’s need for new ways to access high-quality care in a way that fits into everyday life.” “Our expansion in West Lafayette comes at a time when access to convenient health care options is more important than ever,” said Jonathan Nalli, chief executive officer of Ascension St. This neighborhood hospital is the first development of what will become a larger medical complex at the Purdue University campus that will focus mainly on outpatient care. State-of-the-art consumer-focused technology, including telemedicine.Eight Emergency Department treatment rooms.The facility will bring inpatient and emergency care within the city of West Lafayette for the first time. Vincent has purchased seven acres of land from the university located at the northeast corner of Airport Road and Highway 231. Vincent and Purdue University are pleased to announce plans to build a neighborhood hospital in the Discovery Park District at Purdue, adjacent to Purdue University’s campus. It’s just kind of sad that, like, that stops with, you know, the last baby in the family born there will be it, I guess.”Ĭopyright 2023 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. So, you know, so I don’t know where they’ll go. “I have adult children who could be having babies anytime now. “I don’t even know what I would have done if we didn’t have that hospital,” she said. Thoren lives on the Westside, and she said there aren’t really closer options for expectant parents. “It just seemed odd that a hospital wouldn’t have a maternity ward.” “I was really shocked,” said the former Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside announced Thursday that it will be suspending maternity care. She said she was surprised when Ascension St. “Tons of nieces, nephews, all my siblings,” Thoren said. Thoren said that she and so many of her family members were born there, including her five children, and that they joke the health system should put them on a billboard. “Both my parents were born there in the ‘40s,” Tricia Thoren said. Vincent’s Riverside has been welcoming babies to the world. Vincent’s Riverside or they were born there.įor generations, Ascension St. News4JAX has heard from so many people who’ve said their children were born at Ascension St. Vincent’s and the other specialized care the health system provides, visit RN Mgr-Nursing – 1įormer patient shocked by end of maternity care at Ascension St. The hospital said plans are also in place to work with impacted associates to determine potential opportunities for transitioning to open positions within Ascension St.
Vincent’s Clay County will continue to provide maternity care, and Riverside patients impacted by the closure will be contacted individually “to ensure personalized, seamless continuity of care at other area facilities, in consultation with their doctors.” “We expect births to go up slightly over the next couple of years, but that is quite uncertain,” Rayer said.Īscension St. Stefan Rayer, Ph.D., population program director for the University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, said disruptions like the Great Recession and COVID-19 usually mean fewer people having babies. According to data from the state, there’s been a downward trend in births in Duval County overall since the 2007 recession.
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