(Crown Point, IN) - Franciscan Health is opening another hospital beside a major thoroughfare in Northwest Indiana.

The current hospital in Crown Point is closing and being replaced by a $200 million facility a few miles away along Interstate 65. Patients will be taken to the new hospital beginning Sunday morning.

Five years ago, Franciscan Health relocated from its old hospital on the north side of Michigan City to a new facility along Interstate 94 beside U.S. 421.

Recently, Franciscan Alliance announced it was fully acquiring the Franciscan Beacon Health hospital on La Porte's west side. Both organizations were in a 50/50 partnership in 2018 to create that hospital along Indiana 2.