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10 | May 4, 2017 | The orland park prairie News
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Palos Health, Loyola
Medicine announce radiation
oncology joint venture
Palos Health and Loyola
Medicine recently announced
plans to establish
a joint venture to offer radiation
oncology services at
Palos Health South Campus
in Orland Park.
The joint venture, named
South Campus Partners, is to
strengthen the exclusive academic
partner affiliation between
Loyola and Palos, and
enhance delivery of worldclass
ambulatory care in the
southwest suburbs.
Palos Health is a fully integrated,
community-based
health care system featuring
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Palos Hospital, Palos Medical
Group, Palos South Campus
in Orland Park and Palos
Home Care and Hospice.
Trinity Health Illinois is
a regional system of Trinity
Health — one of the nation’s
largest healthcare systems,
with 93 hospitals in 22 states
— that includes Loyola University
Health System.
South Campus Partners
LLC will be governed by a
board with equal representation
from Loyola and Palos.
Radiation oncology services
at the Loyola Center
for Cancer Care & Research
at Palos Health South Campus,
15300 West Ave. in Orland
Park, is to open in the
summer of 2018 and be located
in 13,000-square-feet
of newly constructed space,
offering improved patient
access and additional physician
office space.
Raymond B. Wynn, MD,
FACR, an internationally
known radiation oncologist
at Loyola, has been selected
as the medical director of
radiation oncology for this
new facility.
The unit will feature the
first radiation therapy system
in Illinois that’s guided in real
time by MRI imaging. During
radiation therapy, tissues
move when a patient breathes.
The MRI-guided system,
called MRIdian, can image
and treat cancer patients simultaneously,
with the ability
to precisely target moving tumors
during treatment, while
avoiding surrounding tissue.
Nearly two years ago,
Loyola and Palos entered
into a clinical affiliation
agreement. Since then, affiliation
developments have
included the following.
• A 24/7 telestroke program
allows Loyola stroke
specialists to assess Palos
patients remotely via a telemedicine
robot.
• The Loyola Center for
Cancer Care & Research at
Palos Health South Campus,
which provides access
to Loyola oncology experts,
experimental new drugs and
clinical trials, as well as an
on-site chemotherapy infusion
center.
• Streamlined trauma
transfers and subspecialty referrals
from Palos to Loyola.
• Educational programming
for Palos physicians
by teleconferenced grand
rounds and continuing medical
education courses.
• Palos and Loyola now
have compatible electronic
medical records systems,
making it easier for clinicians
to access medical records
across both systems.
As with previous steps in
this partnership, Palos will
remain independent. Each
organization will maintain
its own culture, mission and
commitment to the community,
and financial and organizational
structures will
remain separate.
To learn more about Palos
Health or to find a physician
visit paloshealth.com.
Marquette Bank announces
free home buyer seminar for
May 20 in Orland
Marquette Bank recently
announced a slate of upcoming
events. Among them is a
free home buyer seminar to
take place from 10:30 a.m.-
noon Saturday, May 20, at its
location at 15959 108th Ave.
in Orland Park. This seminar
will cover information about
the mortgage loan process,
various financing options
and requirements, as well as
first-time home buyer grant
opportunities. The seminar is
open to the public. To register,
call (630) 222-0491.
Silver Cross Hospital
volunteers from Orland
honored for service
Silver Cross Hospital in
New Lenox honored its volunteers
at a recent annual
recognition luncheon held
at the Bolingbrook Golf
Club.
With four volunteer organizations:
Advisory Board
(Encore Resale Shop), Childerguild
(Gift Shop) and
The Will County Union of
King’s Daughters and Sons
(founders of Silver Cross),
and Inservice volunteers,
more than 780 area residents
donate their time and
talents to raise funds for
the hospital and assist in
daily operations. Over the
past year, they have given
55,000 hours of service and
raised more than $396,000
for the Silver Cross Foundation.
Silver Cross volunteers
honored for milestone years
of service. Among them
were Orland Park residents
James Aggen, Inservice,
1,000 hours; Caryl Tietz,
Inservice, 1,000 hours; and
William Bennett, Inservice,
2,500 hours.
For more information,
about volunteer opportunities,
visit www.silvercross.
org or call (815) 300-7117.
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Compiled by Editor Bill Jones,
bill@opprairie.com.