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Coming up in this week's issue of The Focus you'll find:

'Rolling Through the Decades' for Pediatric Therapy

Join the FHN Foundation for a fun-filled evening of bowling with friends at this year's Striking Success for Children. This year we're Rolling Through the Decades, so dress in your team’s chosen era: Roaring 20s; Rockin’ 50s; 60’s Counter Culture, etc. Have fun with it!

Teams of 6 bowlers are needed in order to participate.

Each person on a team will need to raise or donate at least $50 as an entry fee. Individuals who raise $100 or more will receive a Striking Success for Children t-shirt, and those who raise $250 or more will receive a Striking Success for Children t-shirt and hooded sweatshirt!

All proceeds raised will support the pediatric therapy room renovations, new storage area, and equipment at FHN Memorial Hospital.

To register, download a pledge form, make a donation, or for more information, visit www.fhn.org/strikingsuccess or contact the FHN Foundation at 815-599-6900 or [email protected].

Sign up by March 15 to earn extra Spirit Award points! Event registration ends April 10.

Gateway From Student to Professional Nursing Program

The Gateway From Student to Professional Nursing Program will be returning in the summer of 2024. This program is for nursing students entering their final year of an associate or baccalaureate program.

This program will provide students with a 10-week internship to develop and expand their clinical knowledge, critical thinking abilities, and task performance through exposure to various patient-care experiences in the hospital setting. Interns will work full-time hours with an experienced nurse mentor and assume shared responsibility for a patient assignment.

If you know someone who may be interested in this program or would like additional information, please visit the careers section of the FHN website at www.fhn.org and look for “Nurse Internship (Summer).” Please contact Carol Boeke, Talent Acquisition Specialist at x6706 with any questions.

FHN Offering Free Movement & Balance Workshop in March

The inner ear plays an important part in balance. Learn more about this complex relationship and how to improve one’s overall quality of movement in a free FHN workshop.

FHN Audiologist Anneliese Hartman, AuD, and Physical Therapist Baylee Alderman, PT, DPT will present FHN’s Movement and Balance Workshop from 9 – 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 22 in the multi-purpose room at the Family YMCA of Northwest Illinois, 2998 W. Pearl City Road in Freeport.

Hartman and Alderman will address the fundamentals of balance and mobility for those who live with dizziness; fall prevention and rising from the floor safely; and incorporating balance into daily life in this active workshop. Participants are asked to wear comfortable clothing in which they can move.

Registration for this free event is required, as space is limited. Learn more about the event and register at www.fhn.org/balance or by calling 1-877-600-0346, ext. 901.

FHN Staff Referral Program

Attention, FHN family! We’re looking for someone like you to join the FHN team!

Now through March 31, 2024, FHN is offering a staff referral bonus for staff who refer candidates who are hired into a benefit-eligible status in one of the following positions:

• Certified Nursing Assistant - $3,000
• CT Technologist (benefit-eligible and ad lib) - $5,000
• Diagnostic Ultrasound Technologist - $7,500
• Echo Tech - $5,000
• Licensed Clinical Therapist - $5,000
• Licensed Practical Nurse - $5,000
• Mammography Technologist - $5,000
• Medical Assistant - $3,000
• Nuclear Medicine Technologist - $5,000
• Occupational Therapist - $7,500
• Physical Therapist - $7,500
• Registered Nurse - $7,500
• Respiratory Therapist - $5,000
• Speech Language Pathologist - $7,500
• Surgical Technologist - $7,500

If you know someone who would be an asset to our FHN team, please complete the online referral form.

Questions regarding the general Staff Referral Program? Call Carol Boeke, Talent Acquisition Specialist, at ext. 6706.

Share Your FHN Pride! Shop Online for Gear and Gifts

Working at FHN means you help people for a living! Show your pride by wearing a logoed shirt, carrying an FHN water bottle, or using logoed golf balls, and share your pride by gifting a special FHN coffee mug, shirt and more.

Log in to the FHN Online Store to find a variety of clothing for men and women, ranging from business attire to workout gear to scrubs, all bearing the FHN logo. You’ll also find sports goods like workout towels and golf balls, fun drinkware and lots of other options for gifts – or for yourself!

“Hard goods” like drinkware and gift items will be delivered FREE via interoffice mail within 3 business days. Apparel and headwear items will be delivered within 10 – 15 business days and shipping charges do apply.

Bookmark the FHN Online Store and keep checking back – we add new items often!

Help Spread the News: We’re Here, For You!

We have a lot to be proud of at FHN, from our talented, dedicated staff to the many advanced capabilities we offer our patients. We’re working hard every day to be sure we provide excellent care to our patients.

Each week, look to the Focus for good news to share about FHN in the form of downloadable flyers you can print and post or hand out to patients who may be interested. Also look for links to our most recent radio interviews and past interviews to listen to and recommend to others. Don’t forget to Like us on Facebook! Please encourage patients, friends, and family to also take advantage of these FHN information resources. Thanks for your help in promoting FHN!

Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion and Worldwide Health

March is …
Autoimmune Awareness Month

Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month
Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month
Myeloma Action Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
National Endometriosis Awareness Month
National Kidney Month
National Nutrition Month
National Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month
Save Your Vision Month
Trisomy Awareness Month
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
National Athletic Training Month

Weeks to Note:
March 10 – 16 is National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week
March 10 – 16 is Patient Safety Awareness Week             
March 10 – 16 is National Sleep Awareness Week            
March 11 – 17 is Brain Awareness Week
               

Days to Note:   
March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 12 is Healthgrades Announces Top Hospitals for Patient Experience           
March 12 is Healthgrades Announces Top Hospitals for Patient Safety                     
March 30 is National Doctors’ Day           

March is Women’s History Month in the United States and the United Kingdom. It began as a single week and a local event. In 1978 Sonoma County, California sponsored a women’s history week to promote the teaching of women’s history. The week of March 8 was selected to include International Women’s Day. The day is rooted in such ideas and events as a woman’s right to vote and a woman’s right to work, women’s strikes for bread, women’s strikes for peace at the end of World War I, and the U.N. Charter declaration of gender equity at the end of World War II. This day is an occasion to review haw far women have come in their struggle for equality, peace, and development. In 1981, Congress passed a resolution making the week a national celebration, and in 1987 expanded it to the full month of March.

The people of Bulgaria celebrate spring with Baba Marta on March 1. Red and white yarn designs, martenitza, are shared to symbolize health. Bulgarians wear the yarn designs on their clothing until they see a stork or a blossoming tree. They then either put the martenitza on a tree branch to bring on spring or hide it under a rock to represent the wish that the evil spirits in nature will go to sleep.

March 2 – 19 is Ala for people of the Baha’i’ faith. It is the 19th and final month in the Baha’i’ calendar and the time of the 19-day fast in preparation of their new year, Now Ruz. The English translation of Ala (Arabic) is Loftiness.

People of the Hindu faith celebrate Shivratri on March 8. On Shiva’s night, the Hindu deity Lord Shiva performed the Tandav, the cosmic dance of creation and destruction. A 24-hour fast is kept and devotees make pilgrimages to major shrines for worship.

March 10 is Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is the celebration of motherhood, and takes place each year on the fourth Sunday of Lent. Traditionally, children bring gifts of flowers and chocolates to their mothers. Breakfast in bed is also an expectation, as is a relaxing, carefree day. It originated with the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.

Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, begins at the sighting of the new moon on March 11. It commemorates the period during which Prophet Mohammad received divine revelations. Observing Muslims fast between the hours of sunrise and sunset during the entire month, read the Qu’ran and worship in the mosque or at home.

March 12 is Girl Scout Day in the United States and Canada. Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low assembled 18 girls from Savannah, Georgia, on March 12, 1912, for a local Girl Scout meeting. She believed that all girls should be given the opportunity to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually. The goal was to bring girls out of isolated home environments and into community service and the open air. Girl Scouts hiked, went on camping trips, learned how to tell time by the stars, and studied first aid.

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