Gary: Health Care

The major health care organization serving Gary is The Methodist Hospitals, Inc., with more than 700 beds total between its Gary facility (Northlake campus) and its Merrillville facility (Southlake campus); the organization also operates Midlake, an outpatient medical center. A full range of services is provided; special facilities include a Rehabilitation Institute, Center for Interventional Cardiology, Child and Adolescent Program, Women's Health Resource Center, Healthy Start prenatal program, and a sleep disorder center. Other specialties are extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (an alternative to surgery which breaks up kidney stone with sound waves), an alcoholism institute, neuroscience institute, gerontology center, and a regional cancer treatment center.