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