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Columbus Regional Health appears in Indiana’s statewide hospital listing

A state-based hospital directory reproduced on Wikipedia lists Columbus Regional Health among Indiana’s hospitals, identifying it with Columbus. The entry provides a local point of reference but does not describe services, programs or LGBTQ-specific care.

By KLGBT News Desk ·

Contextual Wikimedia Commons photograph: Casa Museu Cristovão Columbo (museum Christopher Columbus) in Porto Santo in Madeira, Portugal. Community center
Contextual Wikimedia Commons photograph: Casa Museu Cristovão Columbo (museum Christopher Columbus) in Porto Santo in Madeira, Portugal. Community center Asurnipal — CC BY-SA 4.0

For readers looking for a basic hospital reference in Columbus, Indiana, the statewide hospital list reproduced on Wikipedia includes Columbus Regional Health. The entry identifies the organization with the city of Columbus and places it among hospitals across Indiana.

The list is described as being based on information provided by the Indiana State Department of Health. It is arranged alphabetically by hospital name and includes facilities in communities throughout the state, from Decatur and Kokomo to Indianapolis, Evansville and Newburgh. Within that broader directory, Columbus Regional Health is the listing connected to Columbus.

That limited entry can be useful as a starting point, but it should not be read as a complete guide to local medical care. The supplied material does not provide an address, phone number, emergency-room information, visiting rules, specialties, insurance details or an assessment of the facility. It also does not identify services specifically intended for LGBTQ+ patients, such as gender-affirming care, HIV services, reproductive health care, behavioral health support or nondiscrimination policies.

For LGBTQ+ residents and visitors, those details can matter when choosing where to seek care. This source alone cannot answer questions about whether a hospital has affirming intake procedures, offers particular kinds of treatment, trains staff in LGBTQ+ health needs or maintains protections for patients and families. Those questions require current information from the hospital, a public health agency or another reliable provider directory.

The entry is therefore best understood as a simple identification record: Columbus Regional Health is included in Indiana’s hospital inventory and associated with Columbus. It offers a stable point of orientation for future reporting, service research or community resource work, while leaving the more important practical and patient-experience questions open for verification.

Because hospital information can change, readers should confirm operational details directly before relying on them for care. The underlying Wikipedia page is titled “List of hospitals in Indiana” and links to the statewide list used for this background information.

Source and reuse information This automatically generated backgrounder adapts text from “List of hospitals in Indiana” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Indiana The adapted text is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. The source article’s linked references are provided below where available. This story has not been independently reviewed or fact-checked.

Further links listed by the Wikipedia page (not independently checked): - https://www.franciscanhealth.org/news-and-events/news/franciscan-health-new-name-leading-hospital-system - https://www.in.gov/health/reports/QAMIS/hosdir/ctyfac09.htm - https://www.riverview.org/location/riverview-health-noblesville-hospital - https://www.riverview.org/location/riverview-health-westfield-hospital - https://www.in.gov/isdh/reports/QAMIS/hosdir/ Image rights Photograph description: Casa Museu Cristovão Columbo (museum Christopher Columbus) in Porto Santo in Madeira, Portugal. Community center Creator: Asurnipal. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). Original image page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMadeira-Porto_Santo-Christopher_Columbus_Museum-Centro_Cukltural-99ASD.jpg. The image was resized for display; no other changes were made.