Vincent Indianapolis, cardiovascular care through the St. Vincent, a 135 year-old nonprofit health system whose parent company is Ascension, will also open new ambulatory care centers in Brownsburg, Crawfordsville and Plainfield, increasing access to non-emergency care including primary care, urgent care, imaging, physical therapy services and access to key specialties – including Level I Trauma at St. The microhospitals are usually in communities that are further away from major medical facilities, helping to bridge a gap in care, and they are an attractive model to large health systems because they do not carry the same costs of a full-scale hospital. Larger health systems nationwide are also expanding their footprints through these small but fully equipped facilities where wait times are likely shorter than in major hospital emergency departments. Patients requiring more advanced care can also be transferred to other facilities. Set to be located throughout central Indiana, each facility will house emergency beds, as well as inpatient beds when patients require additional testing and overnight stays. The first of the facilities opens Summer 2017. Vincent health system will expand access to both emergency and primary care with plans to build eight new emergency microhospitals and three ambulatory care centers, the system announced Monday.
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