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<br /> <br /> City of South Bend <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />For Immediate Release <br />October 20, 2008 <br />4:00 PM <br /> <br />Contact: Mike Stack, Public Relations Coordinator, Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center <br />574-472-6904, 472-2426(Pager), 472-6900 (Fax) <br /> Ruth Linster, Memorial Health System 574-647-3234, (Pager)280-3320 <br /> Mikki Dobski, City of South Bend, 574-235-5855, 876-1564c. <br /> <br /> <br />Renovation to Begin at Future Home of “Bendix Family Physicians;” <br />Oct. 23 Press Conference, Ceremony Scheduled for <br />Collaboration Between Hospitals, City at LaSalle Square <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />The City of South Bend, Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, and Memorial Health <br />System will hold a press conference and ceremony to signal the beginning of renovations of a <br />vacant medical office building that will soon become “Bendix Family Physicians,” located at <br />1010 North Bendix Drive in South Bend across from LaSalle Square. The press conference and <br />ceremony will be held on Thursday, October 23 at 12:00 Noon at the Westside facility. <br /> <br /> Bendix Family Physicians, the result of an unprecedented and ambitious partnership <br />between Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Memorial Health System, and the City of South <br />Bend, will be a full-service medical practice and venue for community health information <br />programming. It is expected that renovations will be complete and the practice will open to <br />patients in Spring 2009. <br /> <br /> “The City of South Bend is pleased to join as a partner with Memorial Health System and <br />Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center in meeting a documented community need for better, <br />more affordable healthcare on the Westside,” said South Bend Mayor Stephen J. Luecke. “This <br />initiative also represents our continued journey toward the economic revitalization of LaSalle <br />Square. I am confident this public-private partnership will bring new investment that will <br />augment the community’s planning efforts and the city’s strategic use of resources to spur <br />economic development.” <br />-more- <br /> <br /> <br />