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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care
3 Centers will celebrate its 75th anniversary on January 19,
4 2005; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Three Sisters of the Little Company of Mary came
6 to the United States in 1893 at the request of a Chicago civic
7 leader whose wife had been cared for by the Sisters in Rome;
8 the Sisters continued caring for the sick and dying in the
9 Chicagoland area for 37 years before building the original
10 Little Company of Mary Hospital in 1930; in 1950, Little
11 Company had the distinction of creating worldwide medical
12 history, when three of its physicians performed the very first
13 kidney transplant; and
 
14     WHEREAS, The hospital's compassion for the sick is
15 deep-rooted; Little Company's Foundress, Venerable Mary
16 Potter, fought a personal battle with cancer; Little Company
17 was one of the first hospitals to offer hospice care to the
18 metropolitan Chicago community in the 1970s; in 2004, Little
19 Company reached the milestone birth of its 200,000th baby
20 alumni - more than any other hospital in the Southwest Suburbs -
21 to continue its heritage as "The Baby Hospital"; today the
22 commitment of the hospital and health care centers to caring
23 for the sick is as strong as ever, especially with its new
24 Cancer Center affiliated with the University of Chicago
25 Hospitals; and
 
26     WHEREAS, Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care
27 Centers offer a heritage of faith-based care that focuses as
28 much on technology as the spiritual connection of prayer; the
29 organization looks toward a future that draws on the experience
30 and spiritual strength of the past, combined with the knowledge
31 and scientific advances that will aid in its continuing mission
32 of providing compassionate care; therefore, be it
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
2 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
3 we congratulate Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care
4 Centers on the occasion of the organization's 75th anniversary
5 on January 19, 2005, and we thank the organization for the
6 tireless devotion to the needs of the sick in the Chicagoland
7 area exhibited throughout the past 75 years; and be it further
 
8     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
9 presented to Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care
10 Centers as an expression of our esteem.