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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the |
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| State of Illinois are pleased to honor organizations in the |
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| State that are known as outstanding institutions; and
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| WHEREAS, It has come to our attention that Silver Cross |
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| Hospital, located in Will County, was named one of the nation's |
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| top performance improvement leader hospitals by Solucient, a |
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| leading provider of strategic business and clinical |
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| information for the health care industry; findings from the |
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| first edition on Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals: Performance |
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| Improvement Leaders study appeared in the March 15, 2004 |
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| edition of Modern Healthcare magazine; Silver Cross is one of |
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| only four such hospitals in Illinois and one of 100 in the |
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| country; and
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| WHEREAS, The hospital was recognized for developing |
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| consistent and effective organization-wide performance |
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| improvements at a faster rate than most hospitals between 1997 |
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| and 2001; the hospital has also been recognized for exceptional |
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| service by Press, Ganey, a national patient satisfaction |
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| research company, and Chicagoland Consumers' Checkbook, an |
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| independent consumer research company; and
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| WHEREAS, Silver Cross Hospital opened in 1895 and has been |
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| caring for patients for more than a century; since its opening |
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| in 1895, Silver Cross has expanded its facilities and services |
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| in many ways to better meet the needs of the communities it |
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| serves; today, the hospital employs a team of 400 physicians, |
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| 1,600 employees, and 550 volunteers; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| congratulate Paul Pawlak, President and CEO of Silver Cross |
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| Hospital, and Greg Repetti, CFO of Silver Cross Hospital, on |