September is PAD Awareness Month, and in recognition Porter Regional Hospital and Interventional Cardiologist Sandeep Sehgal, M.D., bring awareness to the 5 Ws of PAD - the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and WHY – and how it can put you at risk for heart...

Porter Regional Hospital is proud to announce it recently opened an Interventional Pain Clinic at Valparaiso Medical Center staffed by two board-certified pain management specialists – Benjamin H. Soeter, M.D., and Yuli Soeter, M.D. At Porter’s...

Every 11 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency room for a fall, and every 19 minutes, an older adult dies from a fall, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Falls can happen to anyone at any time. However, as we...

Porter Regional Hospital has become the first health care facility in Indiana to receive full Atrial Fibrillation with Electrophysiology Services Accreditation status from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC), an Institute of the...

Knowing when to take young children to the doctor for well-baby and well-child checkups is easy, because the schedule for immunizations and development checks is fairly standard. However, beyond age 5, things are less clear because children do not...

For many parents, back-to-school time means school physicals and immunizations, but it’s a great time for adults to schedule an annual well check, too. Shots aren’t just for kids. Adults need four key immunizations as they grow older to help...

If you are experiencing postpartum feelings, Porter Regional Hospital wants you to know you’re not alone and help is here for you. To bring awareness to postpartum mood disorders and offer support to new moms throughout our community, Porter is...

Did you know that if every child was breastfed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for the first six months of life and continued to breastfeed until age 2, about 800,000 children’s lives would be saved every year? This information from...

Porter Physician Group welcomes Family Medicine Physician Kajal Patel, M.D., to its medical staff. Dr. Patel is seeing new patients and joins Drs. Shane Bush, Vijaya Chapala and Candice Yu-Fleming in practice at Portage Medical Group, located at 3630...

To help empower and build the confidence of young girls, Porter Health Care System will present the Dove Real Beauty Workshop from 9 a.m. to Noon Saturday, August 13 in the Community Room at Porter Regional Hospital, 85 East US Highway 6 in...