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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago is celebrating a
3 century of continuous service to the Englewood community; and
 
4     WHEREAS, St. Bernard Hotel Dieu Hospital was founded in
5 1903 by seven sisters from the Religious Hospitallers of St.
6 Joseph, a French Canadian order; the hospital treated its first
7 patient in December of 1905 and has operated from the same
8 building on West 64th Street ever since; the hospital's name
9 was changed in 1962 to St. Bernard Hospital; and
 
10     WHEREAS, St. Bernard added a patient care wing in 1976 and
11 is modernizing all inpatient rooms and implementing
12 point-of-care electronic charting; St. Bernard's emergency
13 care facility, which opened in 1983 and was renovated in 2001,
14 treats about 33,000 patients annually; in 2003, the hospital
15 introduced a pediatric mobile health unit to give inoculations
16 and medical services to schoolchildren throughout the
17 community; and
 
18     WHEREAS, St. Bernard has 700 staff members and treats over
19 50,000 patients annually, providing over $5 million in free
20 care to those unable to afford needed services; the Englewood
21 community is reviving, thanks to the leadership of institutions
22 like St. Bernard; and
 
23     WHEREAS, In 1999, St. Bernard formed a housing development
24 corporation and reclaimed seven abandoned acres across from the
25 hospital as Bernard Place, Englewood's first housing
26 development in over three decades; Phase I has been completed
27 with 63 fully-occupied new homes; work on Phase II will begin
28 in 2005; Bernard Place has received the Richard H. Driehaus
29 Foundation Award for Outstanding Non-Profit Neighborhood Real
30 Estate Project; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, In November, 2004, St. Bernard is unveiling the
2 redesigned, 217-foot-long hallway of the original 1904
3 building featuring a mural detailing the hospital's history;
4 therefore, be it
 
5     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
6 NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
7 congratulate St. Bernard Hospital as it celebrates its 100th
8 anniversary and we convey our appreciation for its
9 extraordinary service to the community; and be it further
 
10     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
11 presented to St. Bernard Hospital with our best wishes.