Where we are now

Ball Memorial Hospital is a destination health facility for some of the most advanced healthcare available to the citizens of Central Indiana, and the only facility between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne that offers a full range of services including cardiology, open heart, OB/GYN, cancer, neonatal and prenatal services. In 1929, Ball Memorial Hospital was founded with a gift from Edmund F. Ball to address a community need for quality healthcare, and today the hospital continues to respond to the community’s growing healthcare needs.

Because of the region’s growing need for healthcare services and the maturation of the existing Ball Memorial Hospital facilities, hospital officials maintain that facility renovation and expansion is crucial to fulfilling Cardinal Health System, Inc.’s commitment to the communities it serves. Approximately two-thirds of the hospital’s campus was built between 1929 and 1979, with the Outpatient Medical Pavilion, Dialysis Building, Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Cancer Center and Emergency Department being added between 1990 and 2003.

Supporting this need for updated facilities are a number of changes in technology, medical advancements and increased expectations from the public for personalized, family-centered care. Because of the intensity of new services and the technological advancements required to treat today’s patient, the hospital must now bring to both the bedside and the space required for family support, larger rooms and areas for patient care that offer increased flexibility and uncompromised patient safety. If Ball Memorial Hospital is to keep pace with these healthcare trends and facility requirements, it will need to prepare itself for change as well.

Today’s patients and their families expect and deserve their local hospital to provide the very best and most up-to-date healthcare services. Cardinal Health System, Inc. is dedicated to providing for this expectation in the best interest of its patients, community and for the betterment of the regional economy. Patients electing to go outside the region for care can have a significant economic impact on Muncie and surrounding communities throughout East Central Indiana. Research shows that approximately $67 million in additional output and 808 jobs would have been generated in 2005 from local patients electing to stay in the region for healthcare. Providing a facility and services that attracts the preference of more patients within the region will have a positive impact on the regional economy.