Friday night event in Frankfort combines entertainment and information to help raise money for Franciscan St. James Community Foundation.
OLYMPIA FIELDS, IL – June 15, 2011 – Franciscan St. James Health and Alsip Home & Nursery will host a Ladies Night Out event in Frankfort on Friday, June 24.
Ladies Night Out, which will feature live home and garden demonstrations, raffles and free refreshments, will be held at the Alsip Home & Nursery location at 20601 LaGrange Road in Frankfort from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Franciscan St. James Health physicians and staff will also offer free health screenings and mini-seminars. St. James Health physicians will also be available for Ask-The-Physician sessions, in which attendees are invited to ask healthcare questions in personal one-on-one sessions.
Ladies Night Out will also feature exhibits by other local businesses and organizations, including Bella Fiori Flower Shop, Cancer Support Center, D’Marie Salon & Day Spa, Energy Nutrition, Hairspray, Melanie Johnson Independent Beachbody Coach, Mindful Movements Health and Fitness Studio, My Sister’s and Me Boutique and Parmesans Wood Stone Pizza & Catering.
“Alsip Home & Nursery is delighted to help the Franciscan St. James Community Foundation to raise funds to promote wellness in our area,” said Alsip Home & Nursery president, Kris Shepard. “As a locally-owned business, we feel that it is our duty to support organizations like the Franciscan St. James Community Foundation to improve the quality of life in the community.”
Admission to the Ladies Night Out event is free.
Proceeds for select sale items will be donated to the Franciscan St. James Community Foundation by Alsip Home & Nursery.
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Media contact:
Michael Shepherd
708-756-1000, ext. 3455
Michael.Shepherd@franciscanalliance.com
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
St. James Health Classic set for June 22
Annual Golf outing and dinner in memory of Lynn Panici and others touched by cancer to be held at Odyssey and Ravisloe Country Clubs
OLYMPIA FIELDS, IL – June 8, 2011 –Franciscan St. James Community Foundation will hold its annual St. James Health Classic golf outing on Wednesday, June 22.
Golfers will have the option to play at Odyssey Country Club in Tinley Park or Ravisloe Country Club in Homewood. Golf will be followed by dinner at Odyssey Country Club.
This event is held in memory of Lynn (Baumgartner) Panici, a Chicago Heights native and Mokena resident who lost her life to breast cancer in 2000. It funds support services for children who lose parents to cancer and equipment for the early detection of breast cancer.
The Lynn Panici Courage Award, which is presented to an individual or family who embodies the courage and spirit demonstrated by Lynn Panici, is awarded at the St. James Health Classic. This year’s Courage Award will be presented, posthumously, to Natalie Bauer and to the Bauer and Barnes families.
“As a wife and devoted mother, Natalie fought courageous battles against four life-threatening illnesses, which ultimately took her life,” said St. James director of development, Michelle Jimenez. “Although her medical complications were demanding, her love and passion for the world remained, and was mirrored by the love of her family.”
As part of the hospitals Centennial Celebration, Anthony Panici, of Mokena, will also be recognized for his vision in initiating this important fundraising event.
“To date, the St. James Health Classic has netted almost $500 thousand for the Comprehensive Cancer Institute at St. James Health,” Jimenez added. “More than 12,000 digital mammograms are performed each year using equipment obtained with these funds.”
sponsors of the St. James Classic include JDM Steel Service, Inc.; Vitas Innovative Hospice; the Bauer family; and Chicago Office Technology Group.
This event is open to the public. Call 708-747-4000, ext. 5470, to obtain tickets or additional information.
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Media contact:
Michelle Jimenez, 708-747-4000, ext. 7424
Monday, June 6, 2011
Franciscan St. James Health to again serve as UIC Wound Conference satellite site
OLYMPIA FIELDS, IL – June 6, 2011 St. James Health again to serve as satellite site for the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) Wound Conference
The Inaugural Meeting of the American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair (ACWHTR) will take place in Chicago on August 4 and 5, 2011 and will be co-hosted by the UIC Department of Surgery and the Angiogenesis Foundation. This two-day, scientific and educational program will gather leading researchers, clinicians, and government officials in a unique, interactive setting. The first meeting will be unlike traditional wound meetings in both content and venue. The UIC conference venue provides an academic setting, and includes live cases from both the operating room and wound clinics as part of its agenda. Friday afternoon tours of the UIC Robotic Surgery Laboratory and the Center for Comprehensive Wound and Disease Management at St. James Health are also part of the program.
Dr. William Ennis, Director of The Center for Comprehensive Wound and Disease Management at St. James Health, will be the conference co-chair.
Franciscan St. James Health served as the satellite site for the Wound Symposium in 2009, with more than 100 attendees being transported from the conference to view its Wound Care practice and facility.
In addition to his position at Franciscan St. James, Dr. Ennis is the Chief of the Section of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a founder of the American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair and past president of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC). Dr. Ennis has been in the field for over 20 years and has published over 75 articles, abstracts, and chapters on wound healing and tissue repair.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Consult a travel clinic before your next trip abroad
If you’re planning to travel abroad, the first item on your itinerary should be a stop at a travel medicine clinic. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends such a visit four to six weeks prior to your expected date of departure.
Travel is not without risk, especially to developing countries whether for business, pleasure or visiting family and relatives.
According to World Tourism Organization in 2007, there were 903 million international tourist arrivals and over 400 million travelers to developing countries. There is no doubt that global travel by U.S. citizens has increased, especially among recent immigrants going back to their home countries with their children to visit family and friends.
In 2004, 46% of U.S. international air travelers comprised those visiting friends and relatives. Of 100 thousand travelers visiting developing countries for a month or more, 50 thousand will develop some health problem.
Common health problems associated with travel include: travel diarrhea, respiratory problems, skin disorders, fever and trauma. Many of these health problems are preventable and the risk of exposure to some of these can be reduced for a well-informed traveler.
As a physician, I will advise all travelers to consult with a Travel Medicine Specialist. The Travel Medicine Specialist helps the traveler with understanding travel related health risk to help them prepare for their trip.
The initial goal of the pre-travel consultation recommended by the CDC is to determine potential health risks facing the traveler based on his/her medical history, travel destination, mode of travel, itinerary of destination, purpose of travel and season of travel.
A travel clinic has access to the most accurate, up-to-date information on what diseases exist in every country, including the latest outbreaks. A Travel Medicine Specialist will communicate these risks to the traveler in ways that empowers and informs. A plan for mitigating and reducing the identified risks is then made, which may include vaccine administration, prescription of medications to prevent diseases, such as malaria, or treat conditions that arise during travel, such as diarrhea. Finally, an informed traveler is a safe traveler.
A Travel Medicine Specialist can offer safeguards on how to reduce your chances of developing diseases that are present at your destination. No vaccine or preventative medicine is going to be 100 percent effective, so you still need to exercise caution in exposing yourself to various things.
Your visit with a Travel Medicine Specialist will also include instruction about how to eat foods and drink water safely to decrease your risk for typhoid, traveler’s diarrhea and other maladies in addition to how to deal with jet lag and motion sickness. Upon your return home, if you feel as if you may have contracted something on your trip, you can return to the Travel Medicine Specialist for post-travel evaluation and if need be, treatment.
Whether you are traveling for work, pleasure, missionary projects, or other reasons, being protected against disease can help you make the most of the experience. For your own information, check out the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/. Call a full service travel clinic, such as Franciscan St. James Health’s International Travel Clinic at 708-503-3222, in order to be fully prepared for your trip.
Kanayo K. Odeluga, MD, is an internal medicine and occupational medicine physician at the St. James Occupational and Environmental Health Centers. Franciscan St. James Health is a member of the Southland Health Alliance.
Travel is not without risk, especially to developing countries whether for business, pleasure or visiting family and relatives.
According to World Tourism Organization in 2007, there were 903 million international tourist arrivals and over 400 million travelers to developing countries. There is no doubt that global travel by U.S. citizens has increased, especially among recent immigrants going back to their home countries with their children to visit family and friends.
In 2004, 46% of U.S. international air travelers comprised those visiting friends and relatives. Of 100 thousand travelers visiting developing countries for a month or more, 50 thousand will develop some health problem.
Common health problems associated with travel include: travel diarrhea, respiratory problems, skin disorders, fever and trauma. Many of these health problems are preventable and the risk of exposure to some of these can be reduced for a well-informed traveler.
As a physician, I will advise all travelers to consult with a Travel Medicine Specialist. The Travel Medicine Specialist helps the traveler with understanding travel related health risk to help them prepare for their trip.
The initial goal of the pre-travel consultation recommended by the CDC is to determine potential health risks facing the traveler based on his/her medical history, travel destination, mode of travel, itinerary of destination, purpose of travel and season of travel.
A travel clinic has access to the most accurate, up-to-date information on what diseases exist in every country, including the latest outbreaks. A Travel Medicine Specialist will communicate these risks to the traveler in ways that empowers and informs. A plan for mitigating and reducing the identified risks is then made, which may include vaccine administration, prescription of medications to prevent diseases, such as malaria, or treat conditions that arise during travel, such as diarrhea. Finally, an informed traveler is a safe traveler.
A Travel Medicine Specialist can offer safeguards on how to reduce your chances of developing diseases that are present at your destination. No vaccine or preventative medicine is going to be 100 percent effective, so you still need to exercise caution in exposing yourself to various things.
Your visit with a Travel Medicine Specialist will also include instruction about how to eat foods and drink water safely to decrease your risk for typhoid, traveler’s diarrhea and other maladies in addition to how to deal with jet lag and motion sickness. Upon your return home, if you feel as if you may have contracted something on your trip, you can return to the Travel Medicine Specialist for post-travel evaluation and if need be, treatment.
Whether you are traveling for work, pleasure, missionary projects, or other reasons, being protected against disease can help you make the most of the experience. For your own information, check out the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/. Call a full service travel clinic, such as Franciscan St. James Health’s International Travel Clinic at 708-503-3222, in order to be fully prepared for your trip.
Kanayo K. Odeluga, MD, is an internal medicine and occupational medicine physician at the St. James Occupational and Environmental Health Centers. Franciscan St. James Health is a member of the Southland Health Alliance.
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