Please find a substitute if you are unable to fulfill your assignment; Just call or e-mail a fellow member and ask him/her to sub. Tom Evans - tom.evans527@gmail.com- who chairs the service committee, will confirm assignments. Sgt. at arms helps set up and store our stuff, please come 15 minutes early and be prepared to stay a few minutes after the meeting; Greeter greets and announces names of visiting Rotarians and guests; Thought of the Day can be spontaneous or read from a script; Dig 'n Grin can make us laugh or think seriously.
32 Rotarians and no guests attended the meeting. The guest speaker was Patti Sheahan, Associate General Counsel of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, who is a young mother of 4 children, has been an attorney for the Rehabilitation Institute for 15 years and is running unopposed in the Democrat March primary for Cook County Circuit Court judge—yet she took time to be our guest speaker!!
Dr. Henry Betts started the RIC to provide rehab treatment to those with injuries/disabilities to help them regain their ability to function in society. The patients are of all ages and over the last ten years the number of military personnel has increased dramatically. The patients must continue to improve in the rehab process in order to stay in the hospital. RIC has 30 outpatient clinics throughout the Chicagoland area for outpatient treatment. It is affiliated with Northwestern Memorial Hospital where its interns and residents are educated. Its revenues come from Medicaid, Medicare, government grants/ projects and fundraising—little comes from private pay insurance.
It is building a new facility at McClug Court and Erie on Chicago’s near Northside to be opened in 2017. The new facility will increase by 30% the current 182 patient beds. It has always been recognized as the top rehab hospital in the Country.
Thank you to everyone who made our 4th Annual Kids Against Hunger project a great success! Check out this great vide by the Sun Times:
We are so grateful to our Event Sponsors who help cover the cost of bulk food, packaging materials and transportation. Let us know if you or your company will become a sponsor.
