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HOUSE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care 
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Centers will celebrate its 75th anniversary on January 19, 
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2005; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Three Sisters of the Little Company of Mary came 
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to the United States in 1893 at the request of a Chicago civic 
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leader whose wife had been cared for by the Sisters in Rome; 
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the Sisters continued caring for the sick and dying in the 
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Chicagoland area for 37 years before building the original 
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Little Company of Mary Hospital in 1930; in 1950, Little 
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Company had the distinction of creating worldwide medical 
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history, when three of its physicians performed the very first 
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kidney transplant; and

 
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    WHEREAS, The hospital's compassion for the sick is 
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deep-rooted; Little Company's Foundress, Venerable Mary 
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Potter, fought a personal battle with cancer; Little Company 
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was one of the first hospitals to offer hospice care to the 
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metropolitan Chicago community in the 1970s; in 2004, Little 
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Company reached the milestone birth of its 200,000th baby 
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alumni - more than any other hospital in the Southwest Suburbs -
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 to continue its heritage as "The Baby Hospital"; today the 
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commitment of the hospital and health care centers to caring 
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for the sick is as strong as ever, especially with its new 
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Cancer Center affiliated with the University of Chicago 
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Hospitals; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care 
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Centers offer a heritage of faith-based care that focuses as 
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much on technology as the spiritual connection of prayer; the 
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organization looks toward a future that draws on the experience 
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and spiritual strength of the past, combined with the knowledge 
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and scientific advances that will aid in its continuing mission 
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of providing compassionate care; therefore, be it

 
 


 






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    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 
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NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that 
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we congratulate Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care 
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Centers on the occasion of the organization's 75th anniversary 
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on January 19, 2005, and we thank the organization for the 
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tireless devotion to the needs of the sick in the Chicagoland 
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area exhibited throughout the past 75 years; and be it further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care 
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Centers as an expression of our esteem.