In this issue:1 Greetings from Wendell Oman1 Grace Notes2 Breaking ground for ACMC

expansion

2 Parking during construction 3 Chaplain’s Choice - Gifts for the

faithful

4 Outstanding teamwork4 Spirituality and End-of-Life

Care Seminar

4 Hospice Corner

Office for Mission &Spiritual Care

The Office for Mission & Spiritual Care provides spiritual care for patients, their families and associates 24 hours a day every day of the year. The office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. To contact us, call 708.684.5175. Evenings and weekends, ask for the paging operator and request #2296 for the house chaplain or #2299 for the emergency department chaplain.

Advocate Christ Medical CenterHope Children’s Hospital

Office for Mission and Spiritual Care

November/December 2011Volume 2, Issue 6

Bridges to Our Faith Communities

So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Helen Keller

With sincere gratitude Starting with Thanksgiving and continuing into the next few months, we enter the season of blessings and gifts – our focus on each page of this issue.

✦ We at Advocate Christ Medical Center are grateful for and excited about beginning the construction of our Outpatient Pavilion. The photos and story of our ground-breaking ceremony on page 2 only partly convey the joy we felt starting this major expansion – one which many believe is the most significant in the fifty-year history of the hospital.

✦ Once again, our chaplains offer book gift suggestions. You might add a title or two to your own Wish List or choose one of the books to give as a gift. My suggestion, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential, I have found most helpful in working with my staff here at the hospital. Its concepts, while intended for the business world, can also be readily applied to congregations and families.

✦ And please don’t miss the story about four of our ACMC therapists who banded together in an extraordinary way to improve the future of a patient with a

spinal cord injury. This quartet received our MVP (mission, value, philosophy) Leader Award. What a gift people like this are to our

patients and our community!

May the God who blesses each of us provide your every need during this holiday season and throughout the coming year.

Rev. Wendell Oman, Vice PresidentOffice for Mission & Spiritual Care

ConnectionsThe two stained glass panels above and those pictured on page 3 are on the eastern façade of Advocate Christ Medical Center on the walls of the bridge that links the south to the east/west patient towers. Viewed from inside the hospital, each panel is appreciated for its individual beauty. Seen from outside the hospital, the individual pieces merge into one expansive, thematic burst of color and design.

Grace Notes are readings, poems or quotes from a variety of faith traditions and writers. Each reflection tries to touch on the heart of being human in this world. To

receive Grace Notes five or seven days a week, please click here or contact cmc-gracenotes@advocatehealth.com.

Grace Notes

In this issue:

Blessings

and gifts

Connections - Advocate Christ Medical Center Office for Mission and Spiritual Care November/December 2011 - Page 2

William Hyslop, President and CEO of M.D. Anderson, Dominica

Tallarico, COO of ACMC and Hope Children’s Hospital; Dan Heilmann, Mayor of Oak Lawn.

Hundreds gathered inside a tent at the corner of 95th Street and Kilbourn Avenue, the site of the new

Outpatient Pavilion.

Rev. Earl Peters, Pastor Emeritus of Our

Savior’s Lutheran (ELCA) of Burbank, IL; Rev. Corky DeBoer, Manager, Spiritual Services,

ACMC Office for Mission & Spiritual Care.

Community leaders break ground for Advocate Christ Medical Center expansion

Let construction begin! What a celebration! The ground-breaking ceremony for the Outpatient Pavilion for ACMC, held Wednesday, Oct. 19, was exciting and upbeat.

The $200+million expansion -- over 300,000 additional square feet -- will include outpatient clinics, endoscopy laboratories, advanced imaging technology and three of our campus institutes – heart and vascular, cancer and neurosciences -- as well as space for the Women’s Center.

The new nine-story facility will help streamline outpatient services across the hospital. Centralizing outpatient services frees up space for emergency room and inpatient services within the main hospital.

Kenneth Lukhard, President of Advocate Christ Medical Center, expressed optimism about the impact the addition will have on the community. “We hope to be one of this community’s greatest points of pride,” he commented.

Rev. Wendell Oman, Vice-President, Office for Mission & Spiritual Care, Advocate Christ Medical Center, offered the invocation for this long-awaited special event.

Parking during construction

Clergy may continue to park in either parking garage free of charge.

East tower (no agent on duty): Show clergy badge at the public safety office (inside North Office Building) to obtain a ticket which when deposited with original ticket enables exit without paying.   

West tower (adjoining the medical center): Show clergy badge to agent on duty.  

Obtain clergy badge at Office of Mission and Spiritual Care (708.684.5175).

Parking once construction is complete

There will be a six-level parking tower on the site of the former Paragon Restaurant. It will lead directly to the new addition and include up to 2,000 parking spaces.

Dave Heilmann, Mayor of Oak Lawn; Dean Govostis, M.D.; Dominica Tallarico, COO of ACMC and Hope Children’s Hospital; Kelly Guglielmi,  M.D.; George Harris, M.D., President of Medical Staff; Kenneth Lukhard, President, ACMC.

Connections - Advocate Christ Medical Center Office for Mission and Spiritual Care November/December 2011 - Page 3

Chaplain’s ChoiceRecommended Reading for the Faithful

Edited by Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas Not only is this book a great resource for women and men, it is also truly inspiring to read the voices of the past that have shaped who we are today.

Christy Howard-Steele

Phyllis Brooks Toback

Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of

African American Sermons, 1750 to the

Present

Here Super Bowl winning coach, Tony Dungy makes a case for the importance and effectiveness of mentor leadership and reveals the single most important thing that sets a mentor leader apart.

The Wisdom of Heschel Published by Noonday Press, 1975This is a wonderful anthology of short readings, selected from Heschel’s works, arranged by subject, and mostly half a page in length. Heschel (1907-1972) was a prominent rabbi, seminary professor, activist (marched with King!), theologian and philosopher. He was appreciated by Christian as well as Jewish readers. A great introduction to Heschel’s other works.

The Mentor Leader By Tony Dungy

This translates well for pastors who are seeking to develop the leadership in their churches. Maxwell shows you how to grow your organization by growing your leaders – since the one asset that truly appreciates within any group is its people

Corky DeBoer

Miriam's Kitchen: A

Memoir

By Elizabeth Ehrlich I was captivated by this book which took me on one woman's journey of navigating the realities of modern life and faith. Not only did it lend me delicious recipes to attempt in my own kitchen, it provoked in me a review of my own life and how I choose to live. A great read with humor and depth. I would recommend it for readers of all persuasions.

Mary Anne Cannon

Eliza Stoddard Leatherberry

Grassi is one of my favorite storytellers, and this is my favorite of his books. He is a Catholic priest who taught at Quigley Seminary and went on to become a pastor and mentor for many. Here Grassi shares thirty-five stories of his encounters with God in ordinary experiences. It is a joyful journey that is most uplifting and appropriate as a gift.

Windows above are on the eastern facade of Advocate Christ Medical Center.

Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others

Reach Their Full Potential

By John C. Maxwell Wendell Oman

Bumping into GodBy Dominic Grassi

Connections - Advocate Christ Medical Center Office for Mission and Spiritual Care November/December 2011 - Page 4

Advocate Christ Medical CenterAdvocate Hope Children’s Hospital

Staff Chaplains:Refat Abukhdeir, Moslem MinistriesCathy Arsenault, MennoniteFr. Bill Browne, Roman CatholicMary Anne Cannon, Roman CatholicP.V. Chandy, QuakerFr. Casimir Eke, Roman CatholicChristy Howard-Steele, Christian Richard James, Southern BaptistStacey Jutila, Evangelical Lutheran ChurchMarjorie Kooy, Christian ReformedEliza Leatherberry, United Church of ChristSr. Peggy Nau, Roman CatholicDavid Safeblade, United Church of ChristTyron Smith, Baptist

Clinical Pastoral Education SupervisorsAngie Keith, Pentecostal

ACPE Supervisory Candidate/ChaplainJanet MacLean, United Church of Christ

ACPE Supervisory Candidate/ChaplainPhyllis Toback, Jewish

ACPE Supervisor/ChaplainClinical Pastoral Education Chaplain Residents

Paschalis Agu,  Roman CatholicKathryn Cook, BaptistCarla Powell, Evangelical Lutheran ChurchKifah Shukair,  Muslim

Secretarial StaffKaren Darr, 708.684.4189

CPE, Ethics Committee, Office of Vice PresidentFran Genender, 708.684.5175

Eucharistic Ministers, the Department, Office of Manager of Spiritual Services

Administrative StaffCorky DeBoer, Christian Reformed

Manager of Spiritual Services, ACPE SupervisorWendell Oman, Evangelical Free Church of America

Vice-President, Mission & Spiritual Care

Advocate Christ Medical CenterAdvocate Hope Children’s Hospital

4440 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, IL 60453 708.684.8000

Other Advocate Health Care Facilities:Advocate BroMenn Medical Center, NormalAdvocate Condell Medical Center, LibertyvilleAdvocate Eureka Hospital, EurekaAdvocate Good Samaritan, Downers GroveAdvocate Good Shepherd Hospital, BarringtonAdvocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, ChicagoAdvocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park RidgeAdvocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital, Pk. Ridge Advocate South Suburban Hospital, Hazel CrestAdvocate Trinity Hospital, Chicago

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To subscribe to Connections, call 708-684-5175 or email Christ-Mission-SpiritualCare@advocatehealth.com with your name and email address. You’ll receive an electronic edition of Connections every two months.

To continue receiving Connections, your email address must be current. Please inform us of any changes of email address or other contact information. Email Christ-Mission-SpiritualCare@advocatehealth.com or call 708.684.5175.

Special Memorial Service for Recently BereavedSun., Nov. 13, 4 p.m., Siemers Chapel, ACMCA special memorial service will be held for the hospice and patient families of Christ Medical Center and Hope Children’s Hospital who have recently lost a loved one. Christ Mission & Spiritual Care and Advocate Hospice join together in leading this service as a comfort for the families they serve. For more information, contact Penelope Gabriele at 630.829.1753.

Hospice Corner

Honored as MVP Leaders -- Leigh Mangun, speech pathology; Kate Vogt, physical therapy; Mary Ann Hilsen, coordinator of physical therapy; Stephanie Wright, coordinator of occupational therapy.

Spirituality and End-of-Life Care Seminar Advocate Christ Medical Center is hosting this seminar, developed into DVDs by the Hospice Foundation of America as resources for faith leaders, parish nurses, clergy and others interested in end-of-life issues. A discussion will follow each viewing.

Leaving Legacies: Spiritual Meaning-Making at the End of LifeDignity enhancement, living eulogies and other approaches.Thurs., Nov. 10, 1 - 3 p.m.; repeated Wed., Nov. 16, 9 - 11 a.m.

The Dark Night of the SoulAssisting clients coping with spiritual distress at the end of life.Thurs., Jan. 12, 1 - 3 p.m.; repeated Wed., Jan. 19, 9 - 11 a.m.

Advocate Christ Medical Center. RSVP by calling Rev. Corky DeBoer, Manager of Spiritual Services, at 708-684-3013.

Clergy

& Faith Leaders

Outstanding teamworkOften in complex diagnoses, ACMC therapists from different disciplines partner together to help a patient. One patient with a debilitating spinal-cord injury could barely move his arms and was unable to eat, speak or drink, so our speech, occupational and physical therapists teamed up to form a plan.

“We found the right balance between the medical nature of his diagnosis and the physical,” said Stephanie Wright, a team member. “His progress was gradual, but there was never a bad day. If he didn’t have more strength than the previous day, it was just, ‘Okay, let’s try this.’ There was always opportunity and hope.” Under the guidance of this team, the patient was eventually able to feed himself, wash his face and sit up for hours at a time, giving him a greater sense of independence.

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