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FOCUS ON
South Bend's Medical Mile: Hub of world-class care
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| Memorial Hospital, South Bend, Ind. |
Recent expansions, new research funding and enhanced partnerships highlight the growth of South Bend’s medical sector, which has great potential to stimulate the local economy and attract related services. Within one mile of one another near downtown, five health-care institutions provide the most extensive and comprehensive medical services in the region.
The South Bend Medical Mile partnership is Michiana’s largest regional health care concentration, offering an array of treatment facilities – each with its own unique specializations – as well as cutting-edge medical technologies and research for the entire region.
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FEATURES
Medical Mile produces breakthroughs, innovations
You might think that the Medical Mile in South Bend is only focused on providing world-class patient care.
Think again.
The institutions comprising the Medical Mile conduct cutting-edge medical research and procedures that make a world of difference in the lives of patients in the region and beyond.
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The ‘Press Ganey standard’ is set in South Bend
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| Rick Siegrist, CEO of Press Ganey Associates |
Press Ganey Associates has grown to become the largest health care measurement and improvement firm in the United States. Headquartered in South Bend, Press Ganey currently works with more than 10,000 health care facilities.
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IN CONVERSATION
An interview with Michael Pound, CEO of Koontz-Wagner Holdings LLC
By Phil D’Amico, director of business growth, the Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County
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| Mike Pound, CEO of Koontz-Wagner Holdings, LLC |
Mike Pound is CEO of Koontz-Wagner Holdings LLC, a large employer in South Bend with 365 employees that is actively participating in a number of key market sectors that drive our economy. South Bend Controls is a subsidiary of Koontz-Wagner, and it produces solenoid valves for the aerospace and medical industries. Specifically, South Bend Controls designs and manufactures valves for ventilators and other medical devices that help keep patients alive. Read more...
INNOVATION IN GOVERNMENT
Saving $120 million with local ingenuity
Kitty Hawk, N.C. Menlo Park, N.J. Silicon Valley, Calif. These places are associated with life-changing innovations – manned flight, electric lights and the microcomputer. Now, people can add South Bend to the list of game-changing places.
The City of South Bend has found a high-tech solution to a national environmental challenge – overflows of combined storm and sanitary sewers. This challenge is projected to cost $50.6 billion for nearly 800 U.S. cities to meet federal environmental mandates. Read more...
MULTIMEDIA
Pure Research at Notre Dame
The seeds of South Bend's economic development start with the pure research at the University of Notre Dame. This will change our lives and community in the future. Click here to find out more.
EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
College Football Hall of Fame
to host 16th enshrinement here
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| College Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival, South Bend, Ind. |
Thousands of college football fans from across the country will gather July 16-17 at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, for the annual Enshrinement Festival, which will pay tribute to the storied careers of 23 of the game’s greatest players including Tim Brown, Gino Torretta and Chris Spielman among others.
In addition to the multitude of football-related events throughout the weekend, the schedule boasts a variety of family-friendly activities. The weekend’s festivities will include a Celebrity Golf Tournament, Ladies Fashion Show and Brunch, Ribs Cook-Off, Cornhole Tournament, live concerts, Fireworks Spectacular, Grand Parade and Youth Football Clinic. The celebration culminates with the Enshrinement Dinner and Show on Saturday evening.
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Summer art series celebrates
new Chris Wilson Pavilion
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| Chris Wilson Pavilion at Potawatomi Park |
The South Bend Civic Theatre, the University of Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival’s Young Company and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra will headline an ArtsEverywhere performing-arts series in the new Chris Wilson Pavilion at Potawatomi Park.
The outdoor performing-arts center – built in a partnership involving South Bend Parks and Recreation, the Rotary Club of South Bend and the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County – replaces the former park band shell. The new facility features a larger stage, optimized acoustics and northern exposure, an enlarged backstage and an improved, fully accessible seating area.
The first performance in the series, July 17, will feature members of the South Bend Civic Theatre and the Elkhart Civic Theatre, performing numbers from their past and future musicals. Follow the link for the full schedule.
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Urban Adventure returns to South Bend on July 31
One of the most-talked-about events of 2009, the Urban Adventure Games, will return to South Bend from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 31, at Coveleski Stadium in downtown South Bend and surrounding areas.
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| Urban Adventure Games, South Bend, Ind. |
During the Urban Adventure Games, teams of two will traverse the South Bend area by street, waterway and bike path, completing physical and mental challenges. Area businesses, educational institutions and hidden gems will be showcased in this fun, wacky event. Organizers have added three divisions, allowing the more-intense athletes to be challenged and also to give teenagers the chance to participate. Other additions include a cornhole tournament, an after-party featuring Stillshot and fireworks at Coveleski Stadium. Both participants and volunteers are needed for this unique event!
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East Race, aquatics centers open for summer season
The East Race is open for rafting Saturdays and Sundays, while Kennedy Water Park and Potawatomi Pool are open daily. More info on rafting is here…The East Race Waterway, North America’s first urban man-made whitewater course, and other South Bend aquatics facilities have opened for the 2010 season, offering a great way to beat the heat.
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| Kennedy Water Park, South Bend, Ind. |
In addition, five splash pads across the city are open seven days a week. They are located at the Charles Black Sr. Community Recreation Center, Coquillard Park, the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Recreation Center, O’Brien Park and South East Neighborhood Park. More info on splashpads is here…
Beach party, other events planned On the River
On the River, a two-day series of beach parties Aug. 6-7 for teens, families and young adults, will import truckloads of sand to a site along Colfax Avenue, across from the Commerce Center, along the St. Joseph River.
On the River, organized by the Young Professionals Against Poverty, supports the mission of South Bend’s Center for the Homeless. It features live music, volleyball and cornhole tournaments, and other festivities.
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TECH PARK UPDATES
Altapure tests technology
to fight bacteria
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| Altapure’s new HJ600 high-level disinfection system |
Altapure is among a group of ground-breaking companies that moved into Innovation Park at Notre Dame earlier this year. Its innovative antiseptic aerosol technology may one day become a vital weapon in the medical community’s fight against drug-resistant bacteria and other microorganisms threatening human health. Read more…
National media cover
South Bend
Mayor Stephen J. Luecke recently shared his vision for South Bend’s tech-based future in a special essay that was published in the Chicago Tribune’s op-ed section on June 17, 2010. Ignition Park was among the various important developments in South Bend described in the Mayor’s essay. More info here…
South Bend’s emerging technology transformation also has been highlighted in other news media recently:
• “Innovation in the U.S. Heartland,” Science | Business, July 1, 2010
• “South Bend’s High-Tech Research Initiative Brings Economic Growth to City,” Nation’s Cities Weekly, July 5, 2010
• “New Horizons,” Notre Dame Magazine, Summer 2010
NEWS & HEADLINES
South Bend tops Indiana cities
in bicycle commuting
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| Bike the Bend, South Bend, Ind. |
Participants in May’s annual Bike to Work Week had several reasons to celebrate. Mayor Stephen J. Luecke formally opened South Bend’s first downtown bicycle lanes and announced that South Bend has become Indiana’s leading city for commuting by bicycle, according to 2008 U.S. Census statistics.
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| Bike Lane, South Bend, Ind. |
An estimated 2.29 percent of South Bend commuters traveled to work by bicycle in 2008, according to the Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey. That percentage is the highest among Indiana cities (Bloomington was second with 1.84 percent), and the 993 South Bend residents who used a bicycle to get to work surpassed every other Hoosier city except Indianapolis (whose 1,125 cyclists represented only 0.30 percent of the capital city’s workforce). More info here…
Landmark of segregation
becomes symbol of hope
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| Civil Rights Heritage Center, South Bend, Ind. |
Barbara Brandy was the first of more than 400 community residents to enter the former Engman Natatorium on May 23, marking its transformation into Indiana University South Bend’s new Civil Rights Heritage Center at 1040 W. Washington St.
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| Civil Rights Heritage Center, South Bend, Ind. |
Some 70 years before, Brandy had entered the public natatorium to swim but was denied entrance because of her race. Opened in 1922 and established with tax dollars, the Natatorium was used exclusively by whites. In 1937, African-Americans gained access to the pool one day per week, after which it was drained and refilled before whites used it again. It wasn’t until the 1950s that all people gained unfettered access. But the pool closed in 1978, and the facility remained unused.
“There is no more notorious icon of northern racist injustice in our community,” said Mayor Stephen J. Luecke in nominating the civil rights center for a Human Rights Awareness Award. IU South Bend worked in partnership with the South Bend Heritage Foundation with financial support from the City of South Bend to transform the vacant structure into a human-rights hallmark in South Bend’s “Museum Row.” More info here…
Notre Dame research awards
exceed $100 million
The University of Notre Dame’s research awards have exceeded the $100-million mark for the first time in its history, fulfilling a goal set by Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Notre Dame’s president, during his 2005 inaugural address.
“This is an important milestone for Notre Dame because it signals progress toward our goal as a pre-eminent Catholic research university,” Father Jenkins said. “It shows that our faculty are making valuable discoveries in areas as diverse as nanoscience technology and conflict resolution.”
The milestone was reached on April 6 with the arrival of a $93,158 grant from the National Science Foundation to Karsten Grove, professor of mathematics, for a study titled “Geometry and Topology in the Presence of Lower Curvature Bounds.” More info here…
Nanotech program approved, fellowships awarded at Ivy Tech
Ivy Tech Community College-South Bend will be the first college in the state to offer an associate’s degree program in nanotechnology. The Indiana Commission for Higher Education approved the program in June 2010. Nanotechnology courses will begin in August 2011. University of Notre Dame faculty researchers will serve on an advisory board for the program.
In related news, for the second year in a row, three Ivy Tech students were each awarded a Nanotech Undergraduate Research Fellowship and the Ivy Tech Biotechnology Program chair was awarded a Research Education for Teachers fellowship. All three of the students and their instructor are working in nanotechnology research laboratories on the Notre Dame campus this summer.
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