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“I want everybody who’s sick and needs this to come here,” Jackie McBee says passionately. It is Jackie’s last day of rehab, and she’s going home after just 18 days. This recovery is ahead of schedule, thanks to a combination of her hard work and the rehab experts at Park Place Health & Wellness Center of St. John.…

"Fantabulous, wonderful care.” says Dori Bissonnette about her mom Natalie’s experience at Park Place. “Everybody is so caring. Everybody is so compassionate. Everybody is so kind and so willing to work. The progress that my mother made was just amazing.”…

At 68, Mary is a caregiver for two different generations, a labor of love that can take a toll. “You do what you need to do at the time you need to do it,” Mary explains. “You don’t have a choice, except to keep going.” That’s why she’s so grateful that, when she can’t help her mom by herself, she can partner with Park Place.…

On October 16, 2014, Providence Life Services broke ground on its first Indiana community: Park Place of St. John. Park Place would bring Providence-quality retirement living, skilled nursing, rehab therapy, and other care services to Northwest Indiana. …

After a fall broke her pelvic bone, Diana Nicholson was in so much pain that she barely remembers her week-long hospital stay, nor does she remember much about coming to Park Place Health & Wellness Center for rehab. “The pain was so bad that I can’t even describe it” Diana says. But she kept fighting. “I just knew that I needed to stay alive for my family.” …

When the time came for Mary Jarema to move from her neighborhood of 55 years, Kathleen says, “She was 90 and living on her own. Though we would visit 3 or 4 times a week it was time for a move. After looking at a few places, she made the decision to make the move to Park Place by herself.…