November 2011 - Members in the Spotlight

The First Illinois Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association has awarded the Founders Medal of Honor to Vince Pryor, Edward Hospital Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The Founders Medal of Honor is the HFMA’s highest honor of distinction and has been awarded to only 17 people in the 64-year history of the First Illinois Chapter.

 

Joliet Area Community Hospice is extremely proud to hold their annual “Lights of Love” ceremony this year as part of the Rialto Square Theatre’s ComEd Festival of Trees celebration. An uplifting setting provides the perfect background for remembering loved ones no longer with us on November 23^rd.

 

Sara Johnston with Innerpeace Natural Healthcare in now offering Craniosacral Training. This workshop will center on portions of William Sutherlands’ (founder of Craniosacral work) Familiarization protocol. Special focus will be to bring the craniosacral system back to balance at the midline of the body.

 

A report released by HealthGrades, the nation’s most trusted, independent source of physician information and hospital quality ratings, has named Edward Hospital #1 in Illinois for Coronary Interventional Procedures for 2012. Coronary interventional procedures, such as balloon angioplasty and the insertion of stents, are performed in a cardiac catheterization lab to diagnose and treat heart attacks and coronary artery disease.

 

Innerpeace Natural Healthcare welcomes their newest Massage Therapist, Peg Johnson. Peg offers an hour and a half Hot River Rock massage session at Innerpeace Natural Healthcare. Peg graduated Rush School of Nursing and Wellness and Massage Training Institute. Peg is also a certified Instructor of Prenatal Massage, LaStone Therapy and Infant Massage Instructor. She has also done a Shaman apprenticeship with Sandra Ingerman and is currently a student Miline Institute in Big Sur, California. Peg is a RN that has worked in ICU, Recovery and ED since 1966.

 

Linden Oaks at Edward is offering Camp Success Winter Break 2011 for teens ages 12-17 to learn skills to cope with bullying, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. The camp, which will be led by mental health professionals and licensed therapists, will be held December 26 -30, 9am to 3pm and take place primarily at Linden Oaks, located on the campus of Edward Hospital, 801 S. Washington Street in Naperville.

 

The Uptown Eatery and Tap held a Hops for Hospice benefit for Joliet Area Community Hospice on October 25^th. A good time was had by all!

 

Edward Hospital has introduced an iPhone app which allows users to quickly find wait times at its Emergency Rooms in Naperville and Plainfield and view information about Edward’s Immediate Care locations in Bolingbrook and Oswego. To download the app, which is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, visit www.edward.org/erwaittimes and click on the Edward ER app icon or search “Edward ER” in the App Store.

 

If you didn’t see section 6 of the Chicago Tribune on Sunday, October23, you missed out on being introduced to a “remarkable person”. Karen Wells, co-owner of Goddard School on Theodore, was honored by a full page article in the newspaper. PACC is proud to have Karen, her husband, Rundy and Goddard School as members of the Plainfield Area Chamber of Commerce.

 

If you would like to read the complete article, please visit http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-21/features/ct-tribu-remarkable-wells-201111021_1_nutrition-single-parent-aha-moment

 

A record $521,000.00 was raised at the Edward Foundation’s recent 21^st annual Gala, The Big Gig: Untamed Adventure. Nearly 700 people attended the event at Bobak’s Signature Events in Woodridge on Saturday, October 15th. Proceeds from the Gala will, in part, go to Edward’s KidsCare Campaign which is supporting the complete renovation of Edward’s newborn and pediatric critical care areas, special procedure rooms and construction and operation of the Ronald McDonald Family Room, scheduled to open in 2012.