When Franciscan Alliance closed its Hammond campus completely at the end of 2022, it left the city’s downtown without significant, easy access to a center handling acute health care needs.

The future of a Hammond, Indiana emergency room is in question. Franciscan Health wants to close its doors, but the city of Hammond is holding out hope a court order could keep services open to ...

Philip Hayes, B-shift night supervisor for Johnson County 911, works in July 2022 at his station at the Johnson County Emergency Communications Center in Franklin. A Dec. 12 service outage on ...