It has 625 staffed beds and is one of the largest teaching hospitals in the area.

Methodist physicians and staff performed the first open-heart surgery in Indiana in 1965.

The hospital system is also considered a neurosurgery center of excellence, as well as an expert in organ transplantation, urology, neurology, orthopedics and pediatrics.

In 2004, Clarian Health became Indiana's first magnet hospital system.

[1] The former Vice President of the United States James Danforth Quayle was born at Methodist Hospital in 1947.