Committed to Serve You Better
Porter Health System is all about commitment. Our commitment to medical excellence. Our commitment to personalized, patient-centered care. And our healthy commitment to making your life better.
At Porter, this commitment drives all we do to ensure our patients receive the highest standards of care in every service we provide.
Here are a few facts about Porter’s services, technology and recent awards:
- Porter patients are receiving nationally ranked, top quality care according to leading independent healthcare reporting agencies such as healthgrades and www.hospitalcompare.gov.
- Accolades have been given to Porter in coronary interventions, orthopedics, pneumonia care and gastrointestinal procedures; and Porter was awarded the Blue Distinction for Cardiac Care by Blue Cross and Blue Shield – a distinction shared by just 400 facilities nationwide.
- Porter is accredited by the Joint Commission and has even earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval. (Visit www.jointcommission.org and click on Quality Search.)
- Evidence-based practices have led Porter’s Intensive Care Unit to be compared to such prestigious hospitals as Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and have led Porter to be ranked in the top 10 nationally for congestive heart failure.
- Patients from across the country are coming to Porter to take advantage of our minimally invasive hip replacement surgery which gets patients up and moving faster with minimal pain.
- Porter’s daVinci Robotic Surgery utilizes advanced technology offering patients a less invasive surgery.
- Porter is the only hospital in Northwest Indiana to offer a new treatment option for patients with inoperable liver cancer, the Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) procedure.
- Porter recently introduced its new Center for Heart Valve Disease, a multi-specialty valve center that provides patients with comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, and where advanced imaging is needed, utilizes the 3-D TEE (Transesophageal echocardiography), and an improved image quality only available at Porter.
To read more about Porter’s services, browse our website. Porter is committed to serve you better today, tomorrow and always.