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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Loyola University Medical Center of Loyola
3 University Chicago opened the doors to its Foster G. McGaw
4 Hospital on May 21, 1969; its purpose was to provide
5 education and training to health professions students and
6 residents and quality health care to established and
7 still-developing communities in western Cook and DuPage
8 Counties of Illinois; and
9 WHEREAS, Loyola University Medical Center has developed
10 into Loyola University Health System and become a leading
11 Midwestern academic health care system, recognized for
12 teaching, research, and health care, as well as a Jesuit
13 tradition of caring for the whole person - body, mind, and
14 spirit; and
15 WHEREAS, More than 500 students attend the Loyola
16 University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, which is
17 considered a national model in medical education, and many of
18 these students remain in the State after graduating as
19 physicians to serve Illinois residents; and
20 WHEREAS, Loyola University Health System has earned
21 national recognition in such areas as cancer research and
22 treatment; care for high-risk mothers and infants;
23 pediatrics; organ transplantation, particularly
24 transplantation of hearts and lungs; cardiac care and
25 cardiovascular surgery; neurosciences and skull-base surgery;
26 and trauma and burn care and research; and
27 WHEREAS, Loyola University Health System is the site of
28 the country's first Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital and
29 operates an innovative mobile clinic that brings medical care
30 and health education to medically underserved children; and
31 WHEREAS, Loyola University Health System maintains a
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1 nationally accredited Level I trauma center, which offers
2 24-hour-a-day care to the most critically injured patients in
3 Illinois, and a Burn and Shock Trauma Institute dedicated to
4 research, medical training, and a reduction in the incidence
5 of injuries in Illinois communities; and
6 WHEREAS, Loyola University Health System has achieved the
7 best survival rate for premature infants in Illinois and one
8 of the highest such survival rates in the nation, has one of
9 the oldest and most active heart transplant programs in the
10 nation, and performs more lung and bone marrow transplant
11 surgeries than any other Illinois institution; and
12 WHEREAS, Loyola University Health System is one of the
13 Chicago region's largest employers, providing job
14 opportunities to approximately 5,000 non-faculty staff
15 members at the main medical center on South First Avenue in
16 Cook County and at 17 ambulatory, primary, and urgent care
17 centers in the western suburbs; therefore, be it
18 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
19 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
20 we hereby officially recognize Loyola University Health
21 System as one of Illinois' most valuable health resources and
22 commemorate May 21, 1999 as the 30th anniversary of the
23 opening of Loyola University Medical Center; and be it
24 further
25 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
26 presented to Loyola University Health System as an expression
27 of our esteem.