Radiology Groups Merge to Improve Services

Effective Aug. 1, Imaging Associates of Indiana (IAI) will provide radiology services for Franciscan Alliance Northern Indiana Region hospitals.

IAI represents a merger of three radiology groups currently serving Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City, Franciscan St. Margaret Health-Dyer and Hammond and Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point.

The merger forms a larger radiology group of greater capability that will serve those hospitals and associated services, as well as Franciscan Physicians Hospital in Munster.

"The agreement came about due to the need to grow our radiology groups in order to offer greater radiology specialty services and to provide an improved platform upon which to recruit new radiologists as the need arises," said James Callaghan, M.D., president of Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City, who was instrumental in forging the agreement, along with staff physician Richard Dobben, MD.

"They also benefit from the Picture Archiving and Communications System in which radiologists from one of our hospitals are able to read images from our other hospitals."

IAI will provide 24-hour, seven-day-per-week coverage. Its Picture Archiving and Communications System is expected to allow reading of imaging studies across hospital lines effective in mid to late September.