The Indiana Medical Licensing Board on Thursday lifted the emergency suspension of a Fort Wayne oncologist who in January was charged with leading police on a high-speed chase while having illegal drugs in his system. Dr.FORT WAYNE – A Catholic-supported program that has served about 800 pregnant women so far this year has named its newest site after the recently retired bishop of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Roman Catholic Diocese.
The Women’s Care Center at 921 Coliseum Blvd. W. in Fort Wayne was dedicated Monday as the Most Rev. John M. D’Arcy Women’s Care Center. The diocese’s current leader, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, led the ceremony.
Before his retirement in January, D’Arcy received two monetary gifts from Our Sunday Visitor in Huntington. The board of the weekly national Catholic newspaper earmarked the money to be donated to his favorite charities.
The center, the third in the area, received $100,000, plus $50,000 from the diocese, according to Anne Koehl, executive director.
The Coliseum Boulevard site has been open since December. The agency’s other Fort Wayne locations are at 823 Webster St. and 2112 Inwood Drive. All three sites are near current or former facilities that provide abortions.
Free pregnancy tests, counseling and referrals, parenting and childbirth classes and opportunities for women to earn coupons toward baby necessities such as cribs, diapers and clothing will be offered at the new facility.
“We want to give encouragement and hope to women facing pregnancies that may be under difficult circumstances,” Koehl says.
The other gift from Our Sunday Visitor provides $1 million for scholarships to each of the diocese’s four high schools during the next three years from the newly established John M. D’Arcy High School Financial Assistance Fund.
