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CICBC blood drives
help ALMH patients
[NOV.
13, 2002]
Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital, after a long-standing agreement to purchase blood and
blood products from the American Red Cross, made a decision to
purchase blood and blood products from Central Illinois Community
Blood Center of Springfield. CICBC is the sole supplier for
ALMH, Hopedale Medical Complex, St. John’s, Springfield Memorial,
Doctor’s Hospital of Springfield and seven other central Illinois
health care providers.
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ALMH, in contracting with CICBC,
realized a $30,000 annual savings without sacrificing the quality of
blood and blood products. This arrangement makes it possible to pass
along savings to the patient.
The blood and blood products supplied
by CICBC are collected from the areas in which the hospitals
operate. This arrangement affords area residents an opportunity to
support ALMH directly when donating blood rather than have their
blood and blood products disseminated nationwide.
We in central Illinois are fortunate to
have extensive medical facilities available locally. However, with
these facilities comes the responsibility of providing the needed
blood supply to support the patients in the hospitals.
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Each community in the coalition is
encouraged to have community members donate blood to the CICBC. The
only way the plan will work is for our community to do our share of
giving blood in our area.
The CICBC is in need of more donors,
volunteers and good ambassadors to spread the word in our community.
If interested as a volunteer or a blood
donor, or if you desire more information, you may call Central
Illinois Community Blood Center at 753-1530 or fax (217) 753-8116.
The local representative for CICBC is Terry Bell.
The next
blood drive will be at Immanuel Lutheran Church on Tuesday, Nov. 19,
from 3 to 6:30 p.m. It’s about life.
[Shirley M. Helton, CICBC
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Gov. Ryan announces breast
and cervical program grants
[OCT. 29, 2002]
SPRINGFIELD — On Friday Gov.
George Ryan announced grants totaling $6.3 million for a statewide
program offering free or reduced-cost mammograms and other women’s
health care services.
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"This funding provides health care
resources for women who need help the most," Gov. Ryan said.
"Through these grants, we expect to serve 17,000 women this year who
otherwise might not be able to afford breast and cervical cancer
screening. These routine procedures can substantially improve a
woman’s chances of surviving life-threatening diseases."
The Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer
Program — the IBCCP — began in 1995 in DuPage, Lake and Peoria
counties and was expanded statewide by Gov. Ryan in 1999. This
year’s funding allows IBCCP to fund two additional agencies — ACCESS
Community Health Network in Chicago and Cook County and the Madison
County Health Department — to better serve women in those areas.
There are now 25 local health departments and health care agencies
across the state that work with 900 local health care providers to
deliver the program’s services.
Administered by the Illinois Department
of Public Health, the IBCCP is funded through a combination of state
and federal funds — $2 million from the state and $4.3 million from
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The screening program targets women 35
to 64 years of age and older who have limited incomes and are either
uninsured or underinsured. To be eligible, individuals must have an
income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level: $17,720
a year for a single-person household. Screenings include clinical
breast exams and mammograms (40 to 64 years) and pelvic exams and
Pap smears (35 to 64 years of age).
Women who are diagnosed with breast or
cervical cancer through IBCCP and who meet eligibility requirements
can receive treatment benefits through the Medical Assistance
Program administered by the Illinois Department of Public Aid. Since
the treatment benefits first became available on July 1, 2001, about
250 women have received breast cancer treatment at little or no
cost.
"This program has made it possible for
women who may not have been able to afford care for breast or
cervical cancer to receive not only diagnosis information but also
treatment," said Dr. John R. Lumpkin, state public health director.
One in eight women will be diagnosed
with breast cancer during her lifetime, and more than 2,000 women in
Illinois are expected to die this year from breast cancer. In
addition, an average of 700 women a year in Illinois learn they have
invasive cervical cancer, and 230 die annually from the disease.
It is recommended that all women
perform a monthly breast self-examination and receive an annual
clinical breast examination; women 40 years of age and older also
should have a yearly mammogram.
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Women should check with their primary
care provider about how frequently they should receive a Pap smear.
Recommendations are based on clinical findings, history of risk
factors and appropriate standards of care.
For information about obtaining a free
screening through the program, individuals should contact the
Illinois Department of Public Health at (888) 522-1282 for voice
callers or (217) 557-3326 by fax.
Below is a list of agencies receiving
the grants.
IBCCP
screening grant awards
ACCESS Community Health Network,
$148,000
Adams County Health Department,
$148,000
Champaign-Urbana Public Health
District, $277,500
Chicago Department of Public Health,
$740,000
Cook County Department of Public
Health, $296,000
DuPage County Health Department,
$259,000
Fulton County Health Department,
$138,750
Kankakee County Health Department,
$222,000
Knox County Health Department, $101,750
Lake County Health Department, $370,000
LaSalle County Health Department,
$148,000
Livingston County Health Department,
$83,250
Logan County Health Department,
$370,000
Madison County Health Department,
$185,000
Montgomery County Health Department,
$240,500
Peoria City/County Health Department,
$203,500
Rock Island County Health Department,
$305,250
Sarah Bush Lincoln Hospital (Mattoon),
$212,750
Southern Seven Health Department,
$120,250
St. Clair County Health Department,
$222,000
St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Inc.
(Centralia and Mount Vernon), $629,000
Stephenson County Health Department,
$222,000
Tazewell County Health Department,
$111,000
Visiting Nurse Association of Fox
Valley (Aurora), $222,000
Winnebago County Health Department,
$305,250
Total:
$6,280,750
[Illinois
Government News Network
press release]
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Help your community:
Take the survey!
[OCT. 15, 2002]
Headlines
from the past year reflect a growing youth problem in Logan County.
Teenagers injured or killed in alcohol- and drug-related incidents
have reached an all-time high. It has brought sorrow to many,
brought some to their knees, and has the community as a whole
searching for answers.
Concerned parents and community leaders
are looking for the means and methods to eliminate teenage alcohol
and drug consumption, and to curb the consumption of harmful
over-the-counter drugs used for recreational and performance
purposes. While many have expressed this same concern, there are
currently no real "answers" in this quest.
Kristin Lessen and the staff from
Logan-Mason Mental Health, a division of Mental Health Centers of
Central Illinois, think that attitudes about drinking and drug use
lead the way, and want to gather information which might prove this
theory and provide a long-term means of treating this growing
threat.
She wants
you to TAKE THE SURVEY! Just 20
questions about what your attitude is about drugs and alcohol.
Please participate. It could make a real difference.
[Jim
Youngquist] |
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Health
Matters A
monthly feature from Logan County Health Department
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[Click here
for "Let’s talk turkey -- safe
turkey"]
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Health Department offers
flu shots for the public
[OCT.
9, 2002]
Logan County Health
Department has flu and pneumonia immunizations available now. Flu
and pneumonia shots can be obtained at the Health Department, 109
Third St., on a walk-in basis during normal business hours,
Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 pm. Please arrive by 4:15 p.m.
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The Mobile Medical Van will also have
flu and pneumonia immunizations available at all regularly scheduled
times of operation in all 14 communities.
It is recommended that the flu
vaccination be received by the end of November.
The cost for flu and pneumonia vaccine
is $16 per shot. Medicare will pay for both shots. All clients are
asked to have their Medicare cards with them when coming to get flu
or pneumonia shots.
Influenza is caused by a virus that
spreads from people infected to the nose or throat of others.
Influenza can cause fever, cough, chills, sore throat, headache,
muscle aches in people of any age.
However, people at risk for
getting serious cases of influenza are people 65 years of age or
older, residents of long-term care facilities, anyone with serious
long-term health problems, people with weakened immune system, and
health care workers coming in close contact with people at risk of
serious influenza.
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People who have had a serious allergic
reaction to eggs or previous dose of influenza vaccine, and people
with a history of Guillain-Barre Syndrome should consult with a
doctor before getting the influenza vaccination.
Pneumonia vaccine protects against
pneumococcal pneumonia, a serious lung infection. Symptoms of
pneumonia include fever, aches, fatigue, chest pain, cough and
confusion. People 65 years of age and older should receive the
pneumococcal immunization. Re-vaccination of people at highest risk
for serious pneumococcal infection is recommended only once, after
five years have elapsed.
For further
information, please contact the Logan County Health Department at
(217) 735-2317.
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Immanuel
Lutheran Church hosts blood drive
[NOV.
7, 2002]
Immanuel Lutheran Church
will host a blood drive with the Central Illinois Community Blood
Center on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 3 until 6:30 p.m.
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Central Illinois Community Blood Center
provides all of the blood and blood products for 12 area hospitals,
including those in Lincoln, Hopedale and Springfield. CICBC is a
community-based blood center whose mission is to provide a safe and
adequate blood supply for patients in local hospitals in a
cost-effective manner. No other organization provides blood in these
hospitals.
Patients in these hospitals are your
friends, neighbors, and family members, and they depend on healthy
community members for the lifesaving blood they need. Less than 5
percent of the population donates blood for the other 95 percent.
Please help save lives in your community by donating blood to your
community blood center.
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You may donate blood if you are at
least 17 years old (16 years old with a signed permission slip from
parent or guardian), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in good
health. There is no upper age limit. You need only be in good health
and have a picture ID or two other forms of ID. Please remember that
as a blood donor, you are truly saving lives.
Please
donate blood… It’s about life.
[CICBC
press
release]
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Mobile
health unit schedule
The
Rural Health Partnership has announced the schedule for its mobile
health unit for 2002.
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Morning:
9-11 a.m. |
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Afternoon:
1-3:30 p.m. |
Monday |
1st and 3rd |
Hartsburg |
1st and 3rd |
Emden |
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2nd and 4th |
San Jose |
2nd and 4th |
Greenview |
Tuesday |
Weekly |
Chestnut |
Weekly |
Mount Pulaski |
Wednesday |
Weekly |
New Holland |
Weekly |
Middletown |
Thursday |
1st and 3rd |
Elkhart |
Weekly |
Atlanta |
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2nd and 4th |
Friendship
Manor-Lincoln |
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Friday |
1st, 2nd,
4th |
Village Hall-Latham |
1st |
Beason |
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2nd and 4th |
Broadwell |
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3rd |
Maintenance/ special
events |
3rd |
Maintenance/
special events
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The
mobile health unit does not operate on the following dates for
holidays
during 2002: Jan. 21 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), Feb. 18 (Presidents’ Day),
March 29 (Good
Friday), May 27 (Memorial Day), July 4 (Independence Day), Sept. 2 (Labor Day), Oct.
14 (Columbus Day), Nov. 11 (Veterans Day), Nov. 28-29
(Thanksgiving break) and Dec. 24-25 (Christmas break).
For more
information on the mobile health unit schedule and services, contact
Dayle Eldredge at (217) 732-2161, Ext. 409.
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Community
resource list
This
family resource list to save and use is provided by the Healthy
Communities Partnership and the Healthy
Families Task Force, 732-2161, Ext. 409.
Agency |
Phone number |
Address |
Lincoln
agencies |
911 |
911 (emergency)
732-3911 (office -- non-emergency)
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911 Pekin St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
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732-2161
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315 Eighth St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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American Red Cross
www.il-redcross.org |
732-2134 or
1 (800) 412-0100
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125 S. Kickapoo
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Catholic Social
Services
www.cdop.org |
732-3771 |
310 S. Logan
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Lincoln/Logan County Chamber
of Commerce
www.lincolnillinois.com |
735-2385 |
303 S. Kickapoo St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Community Action (CIEDC) |
732-2159
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1800 Fifth St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Crisis Pregnancy Center/
Living Alternatives |
735-4838 |
408 A Pulaski St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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DCFS (Department of
Children
& Family Services) |
735-4402 or
1 (800) 252-2873
(crisis hotline)
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1120 Keokuk St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Heartland Community
College
- GED program |
735-1731 |
620 Broadway St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Housing Authority |
732-7776
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1028 N. College St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Illinois Breast &
Cervical Cancer Program (IBCCP)
www.logancountyhealth.org |
735-2317 or
1 (800) 269-4019
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109 Third St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Illinois Employment and Training Center (replaces JTPA office) |
735-5441 |
120
S. McLean St., Suite B
Farm
Bureau Building
Lincoln,
IL 62656
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Lincoln Area YMCA
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735-3915 |
319 W. Kickapoo St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Lincoln/Logan Food
Pantry |
732-2204
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P.O. Box 773
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Lincoln Parents’
Center |
735-4192 |
100 S. Maple
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Lincoln Park District |
732-8770 |
1400 Primm Rd.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Logan County Department
of Human Services (Public Aid)
www.state.il.us/agency/dhs |
735-2306 |
1500 Fourth St.
P.O.
Box 310
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Logan County Health
Department
www.logancountyhealth.org |
735-2317 |
109 Third St.
P.O. Box
508
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Logan-Mason Mental
Health |
735-2272 or
735-3600
(crisis line)
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304 Eighth St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Logan-Mason
Rehabilitation Center |
735-1413 |
760 S. Postville Drive
Lincoln, IL 62656
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The Oasis
(Senior Citizens
of Logan County) |
732-6132 |
501 Pulaski St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Project READ
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735-1731 |
620 Broadway St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Salvation Army |
732-7890
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1501 N. Kickapoo
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Senior Services of
Central Illinois |
732-6213 or
1 (800) 252-8966
(crisis line)
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109 Third St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
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U. of I. Extension
Service
www.ag.uiuc.edu |
732-8289 |
980 N. Postville Drive
Lincoln, IL 62656
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Springfield
agencies |
Department of Aging
www.state.il.us/aging |
785-3356 |
421 E. Capitol, #100
Springfield, IL 62701-1789
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American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org |
546-7586
(24 hour) |
1305 Wabash, Suite J
Springfield, IL 62704
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Community Child Care
Connection
www.childcaresolutions.org |
(217) 525-2805 or
1 (800) 676-2805
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1004 N. Milton Ave.
Springfield, IL 62702-4430
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Hospice Care of
Illinois |
1 (800) 342-4862
(24 hour) or
732-2161, Ext. 444
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720 N. Bond
Springfield, IL 62702
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Illinois Department of
Public Health
www.idph.state.il.us |
(217) 782-4977
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535 W. Jefferson
Springfield, IL 62761
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Legal Assistance
Foundation |
(217) 753-3300 or
1 (800) 252-8629
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730 E. Vine St., Suite
214
Springfield, IL 62703
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Sojourn Shelter &
Services Inc.
http://www.sojournshelter.org/
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732-8988 or
1 (866) HELP4DV
(24-hour hotline)
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1800 Westchester Blvd.
Springfield, IL 62704
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U. of I. Division of
Specialized Care for Children
www.uic.edu |
524-2000 or
1 (800) 946-8468
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421 South Grand Ave.
West
Second Floor
Springfield, IL 62704
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Logan County
libraries |
Atlanta Library |
(217) 648-2112 |
100 Race St.
Atlanta, IL 61723 |
Elkhart Library |
(217) 947-2313 |
121 E. Bohan
Elkhart, IL 62634 |
Lincoln Public Library
www.lincolnpubliclibrary.org |
732-8878 |
725 Pekin St.
Lincoln, IL 62656 |
Mount Pulaski Library |
792-5919
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320 N. Washington
Mount Pulaski, IL 62548
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