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Balm in Hazel Crest
Ministers and seminarians learn how to provide spiritual care in a clinical seeting through a special internship at South Suburban Hospital.
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Charitable gifts are vital to the hospital
Philanthropy plays an important rol at Advocate South Suburban Hospital. Your gift will help us advance our capabilities, attract and retain outstanding health professionals and reach out with the extra measure of care that will never be optional. Past community support has helped elevate services such as the Sexual Assault Treatment Program — the only one of its kind in Illinois — and community health outreach. Charitable donations from people like you have also helped build a state-of-the-art Intensive Care Unit and continue to support the development of a Heart and Vascular Center.
 
Philanthrophy news and events at South Suburban Hospital
Funding opportunities
Below is a list of programs at South Suburban Hospital that currently need your support
Heart and Vascular Center
South Suburban Hospital's cardiac services are among the best in the area-and they are about to get even better. To meet the growing needs of the community, the hospital is adding an interventional radiology suite and a new Heart and Vascular Center. Charitable gifts are being sought to support the new outpatient facility, which will provide a full continuum of services that combines education, prevention and screening with superior diagnostics and medical/surgical treatments in a patient-friendly environment.
Sexual Assault Treatment Program
Gifts to this fund help provide immediate, compassionate care to patients who have been sexually assaulted, decreasing the trauma they experience.
Women's Breast Health Resource Center
South Suburban Hospital's new Breast Health Resource Center is designed to help women become more proactive about breast cancer prevention, early detection and treatment. Your support will centralize the diagnostic services and treatment for breast cancer patients as well as provide access to educational opportunities such as self-examination brochures, materials for spouses and family members and patient support groups. The center offers access to new demonstration models, home practice kits and special materials for Latinas and women with literacy problems.
Area of Greatest Need
Giving to South Suburban Hospital's area of greatest need provides additional resources and flexibility to respond quickly to new ideas and programs that support the hospital's strategic directions.
Asthma Education
A chronic disease that causes pain, loss of productivity and even death, asthma is a problem that can be self-managed. Gifts to this program help the hospital's respiratory therapists hold extensive education programs in more than 13 schools serving 415 students in grades 3-5. Each six-session program teaches children how to control their asthma. Through take-home questionnaires and presentations to parent/teacher organizations, educational opportunities are extended to parents and other family members.
Funds contributed to this priority will allow South Suburban Hospital to continue to provide extensive asthma community education programs supporting professional staff and supplies. Through the program, which is targeted to young asthmatics and adult caregivers such as their parents, teachers and coaches, patients learn about asthma triggers and management tools.
Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program
Patients with coronary heart and lung disease often need comprehensive rehabilitation services. At South Suburban, program participants receive personal attention from a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals working together to provide complete care. Your philanthropy supports an intensive, 12-week pulmonary rehab program designed to help people with emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma and other pulmonary problems.
Charity Care
Gifts to this fund enable South Suburban to give access to health care to patients who do not have the ability to pay for the services they need. With difficult economic issues such as unemployment, shrinking insurance coverage and lower reimbursement rates, the health system absorbs more and more of the cost for those who can least afford to pay for their care.
Community Health and Wellness Programs
Better community outreach doesn't just mean healthier neighborhoods. It also reduces the strain on our emergency facilities and helps lower health care costs for all of us. Your contribution to South Suburban's Community Health and Wellness Programs helps support preventive outreach to our underserved populations. Education, health screenings and many routine treatments are provided in partnership with faith communities, schools and other local organizations.
Congestive Heart Failure
Your contribution will enhance the care of the more than 700 patients a year diagnosed with weakened heart tissue. Patient education tools are vital: blood pressure equipment, scales to monitor rapid weight gain and educational resource materials including books, pamphlets and videos for patients.
Emergency Department Services
Help South Suburban Hospital's emergency department provide highly skilled care in a respectful, comfortable environment with a gift to this fund. Your support for innovative features — including private treatment rooms (much like a doctor's office) and a comfortable, family friendly waiting area with a special place for children to play — allows our patients some respite in times of crisis. Funds contributed to this priority allowed South Suburban Hospital to finish the first phase of the renovation and expansion of its emergency room. Yet, the community's needs are greater still causing an ER built for 28,000 patients annually to now be serving almost 46,000 people per year. Future plans include adding additional exam rooms and purchasing new equipment.
Senior Patient Transportation Program
South Suburban Hospital's free van service provides transportation for seniors from the communities we serve to the hospital campus. Your gift to maintain this service makes health care accessible to seniors whose limited mobility could keep them from the care they need. The hospital is called on to provide a safe ride to the hospital nearly three times a day.
Skilled Nursing Facility
South Suburban Hospital's Skilled Nursing Facility is one of the last remaining hospital-based facilities in Illinois. It serves as a bridge of care for patients who no longer need acute hospital care, but still require specialized nursing services before going home. The goal is to help patients achieve their maximum potential for health and independence — while also improving morale. In addition to physical, occupational and speech therapy, our nurses treat the human spirit through programs like pet therapy and spa days.
Contact us
Would you like to speak with someone about making your gift? We would be happy to speak with you further about how your charitable giving can make an impact at South Suburban Hospital.
Eric Schmidt
Director of Development
708.213.3487
eric.schmidt@advocatehealth.com
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