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VFW and Murphy Family Contribute to IVCH MRI Fund. Checks totaling $1,000 from the family of the late Marge Murphy and the LaSalle Veterans of Foreign Wars post are going into an Illinois Valley Community Hospital Foundation fund to help IVCH purchase a new MRI unit. Murphy was a radiologic technologist who had worked in the hospital’s diagnostic imaging department for 36 years. Department director Cindy Herrmann accepts the checks from Kevin Swierkosz (left), representing the VFW, and Elton Murphy, Marge Murphy’s husband. Also pictured are Barbara Sweger, the Murphys’ daughter, and IVCH MRI technologist Stacey Wertz.

Dr. Lyman Tieman Joins IVCH Adult Medicine Clinic. Dr. Lyman Tieman is the new internal medicine physician staffing the Illinois Valley Community Hospital Adult Medicine Clinic in Peru. He joined the clinic following the recent retirement of Dr. Won Kim, an internist and member of the IVCH medical staff who had been practicing medicine locally since 1978. Before coming to IVCH, Dr. Tieman worked at KSB Hospital in Dixon for more than 30 years. He also worked for a time at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights. Dr. Tieman earned his medical degree from the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University in Chicago after receiving his undergraduate degree from MacMurray College in Jacksonville. Appointments with Dr. Tieman can be made by calling 815-223-6443. The IVCH Adult Medicine Clinic is located on the second floor of the medical office building across West Street from the hospital.

IVCH Recognized as a Top 5 Clinical Site by Rosalind Franklin University Students in the nurse anesthesia program at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science selected Illinois Valley Community Hospital as one of the Top Five Clinical Sites at which they did their clinical residency between 2016- 2017. IVCH—which also won the award in 2016—is one of 34 hospitals and medical centers in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana at which Rosalind Franklin students in the certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) program earn clinical hours. Jay Tumulak, DNP, CRNA, APN, Director of Clinical Education at Rosalind Franklin’s nurse anesthesia program, came to Peru to present the award to Tommy Hobbs, IVCH chief executive officer, and Kim Duttlinger, CRNA, clinical coordinator of IVCH’s partnership with the university. Tumulak also presented IVCH CRNA Becky Meier with the 2017 Outstanding Clinical Educator Award, an honor voted on by this year’s nurse anesthesia students. Rosalind Franklin University is located in North Chicago. (photo) Rosalind Franklin University’s Jay Tumulak (left) with IVCH certified registered nurse anesthetists Becky Meier and Kim Duttlinger and Tommy Hobbs, IVCH chief executive officer.

The IVCH FastCare walk-in clinic at the Peru Walmart is closed today.

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IVCH Still a Blue Cross/Blue Shield Hospital. Medical services provided by Illinois Valley Community Hospital are not affected by the recent announcement from the Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance network that it is removing area OSF hospitals from its provider list beginning in January 2018. “IVCH is still part of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield network,” said Tommy Hobbs, IVCH chief executive officer. “The announcement does not in any way alter our relationship with Blue Cross,” Hobbs noted that IVCH is not an OSF hospital even though some OSF specialists receive patients at IVCH.

IVCH FastCare inside the Peru Walmart will be closed Friday, October 6th and Monday, October 9th but will be open Saturday, October 7th and Sunday, October 8th. Thank you.

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Courtney McCoy is October’s IVCH Employee of the Month. Filling in for a sick colleague so a patient could have a needed test done on time earned Diagnostic Imaging’s Courtney McCoy the October Employee of the Month Award at IVCH. Here’s what DI Director Cindy Herrmann said in her nomination: “A patient had started a 2-day test on 8/21 and needed to return on 8/22 to complete the exam. The technologist needing to complete the exam called in sick. Courtney was the only person who could perform the scheduled study. Despite working all night and having to bring her child in with her, she was kind enough to return to work at 9 a.m. to perform the needed exam.” Dr. Steve Lukancic, IVCH radiologist, also nominated Courtney for the award.

Brooke Shirley, Jacey Mertel and Kaitlyn Gibson were among the LaSalle-Peru High School volleyball players who threw IVCH miniature pink volleyballs into the stands at LP’s October 3rd home game. The Paint the Gym Pink promotion was part of a Breast Cancer Awareness Month event at LP at which IVCH Community Outreach nurses distributed information about the disease.

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