Spring 2015Volume 6, Issue 1

In this issue:1 Greetings from Wendell Oman

1 Grace Notes

2 ACMC awarded Green Building Certification

2 Making a building green

3 Obesogenic workplace adding pounds?

3 Hospice Corner

4 Dear giver of care

4 A prayer for gratitude

4 ProActive Kids (PAK) program announcement

4 What’s the eNews in Pediatrics?

5 Advocate introduces the Advocate Children’s Heart Institute brand

5 Cardiac neurodevelopmental care

Office for Mission &Spiritual Care

The Office for Mission & Spiritual Care provides spiritual care for patients, their families and associates 24 hours a day every day of the year. The office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. To contact us, call 708.684.5175. Evenings and weekends, ask for the paging operator and request #7729 for the house chaplain or #2299 for the emergency department chaplain.

Bridges to Our Faith CommunitiesConnections

Also in this issue:News from

AdvocateChildren’s Hospital

The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

Joseph B. Wirthlin 

Grace Notes are readings, poems or quotes from a variety of faith traditions and writers. Each reflection tries to touch on the heart of being human in this world. To receive Grace Notes five or

seven days a week, please click here or contact AHC-gracenotes@advocatehealth.com .

Grace Notes

Environment mattersHere at Advocate Christ Medical Center, we understand the deep connection between environment and health. Healthy environments encourage physical, emotional and spiritual health in those who occupy them.

Recently, Advocate Christ Medical Center's Outpatient Pavilion was honored with LEED® Gold Certification. This prestigious certification is issued by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for buildings constructed with “best-in-class building strategies and practices.”

LEED® Certified buildings are energy-efficient, which has a huge impact on both Christ Advocate Medical Center and the surrounding community. Energy cost savings are passed on to our patients, and the lessened environmental impact benefits our employees and our neighbors. ACMC’s doctors are keenly aware of how our immediate environments can affect health in many ways.

In this issue of Connections, we also consider how the work environments of clergy can contribute to weight gain and unhealthy dietary and exercise habits.

(By the way, did you know that you can access wellness-tracking tools, such as a calorie burner and body mass index calculators, at advocatehealth.com/wellnesstools? Take a few minutes to check out your numbers and start on a healthier path!)

As we journey into the season of spring, I wish God’s blessings on you and your communities. May your journey into this warmer season find an environment filled with love and hope.

Rev. Wendell OmanVice President, Office for Mission & Spiritual Care

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Advocate Christ Medical Center announced it has been awarded the coveted LEED® Gold Certification, established by the U.S. Green Building Council, for its Outpatient Pavilion, which opened in March 2014. The nine-story, 326,000-square-foot outpatient facility embodies high performance and provides a state-of-the-art facility for advanced medical care.

LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy &

Environmental Design, is the nation’s preeminent program for

the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. By using less energy, LEED-certified buildings save money for families, businesses and taxpayers; reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and contribute to a healthier environment for residents, workers and the larger community.

Advocate Health Care is nationally recognized for its environmental leadership and is a founding member of the Healthier Hospitals Initiative. “Advocate’s focus has been on guiding the Initiative’s work in energy efficiency, and we are proud to continue that tradition with all our new construction at Advocate Christ Medical Center,” stated Kenneth W. Lukhard, president, Christ Medical Center.

The Outpatient Pavilion at Christ Medical Center brings outpatient services, previously scattered in various locations, into one ultra-modern facility and supports the multi-disciplinary practice of medicine. Just as state-of-the-art health care requires a multi-disciplinary medical team, high performance buildings rely on a collaborative design team in all phases of project development.

ACMC awarded Green Building Certification

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What you might expect

Highlights of the collaboration to design a green building to use less energy include:

Careful consideration of the building’s integrated heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) components as HVAC systems account for such a large share of building energy use.

Energy systems that work together with high-performance windows and insulation, contributing to energy savings of 28 percent over standard design and construction.

Reflective building surfaces and white thermoplastic polyolefin TPO roofing that meet ENERGY STAR® standards to help reduce urban heating.

Important but not so obvious

The project’s open patient and family-friendly spaces provide the look and feel of a high performance building. However, many important green design features are not noticeable to the public. These include:

High efficiency condensing boilers for heating and hot water, as well as high efficiency chillers for cooling.

Advanced technologies that reduce the energy needed to move conditioned air and water throughout the building, such as high efficiency pumps and fans, variable-frequency drives and the innovative use of perimeter fin tube heating during non-occupied hours.

Sustainable

Other features supporting LEED certification are the site’s sustainable qualities, materials, and systems for green building operations:

The building was designed also to maximize storm water management and minimize water use through design and native plantings.

Project materials that, when possible, came from local sources, contain recycled content, and are nonpolluting (low VOC).

Indoor air quality control is enhanced with exhaust ventilation at localized sources of potential pollution.

Installation of CO2 (carbon dioxide) sensors ensures maintenance of desired outdoor air quantities.

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Advocate Christ Medical Center4440 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, IL 60453 708.684.8000

Staff Chaplains:Refat Abukhdeir, Moslem MinistriesCarla Banks, United Church of ChristMary Anne Cannon, Roman CatholicP.V. Chandy, QuakerDenise Duncan, United Church of ChristFr. Casimir Eke, Roman CatholicStaycie Flint, EpiscopalChristy Howard-Steele, Christian Richard James, Southern BaptistDavid Safeblade, United Church of ChristTyron Smith, Baptist

Clinical Pastoral Education SupervisorsAngie Keith, Pentecostal ACPE Supervisory CandidateJanet MacLean, United Church of Christ

ACPE SupervisorPhyllis Toback, Jewish ACPE Supervisor

Clinical Pastoral Education Chaplain ResidentsAmram Ben Abraham, JewishRebecca McDonald, Roman CatholicLoretta Ransberg, ApostolicKellie Tracz, Presbyterian

Secretarial StaffDenetrice Theard-Sanders, 708.684.4189

Administrative Assistant IIJacquelyn Perkins, Coordinator, Faith Health Partnerships

Administrative StaffCorky DeBoer, Christian Reformed

Manager of Spiritual Services, ACPE SupervisorWendell Oman, Evangelical Free Church of America

Vice-President, Mission & Spiritual Care

To subscribe to Connections, call 708.684.5175 or email Christ-Mission-SpiritualCare@advocatehealth.com with your name and email address. You’ll receive an electronic edition of Connections every three months.

To continue receiving Connections, your email address must be current. Please inform us of any changes of email address or other contact information. Email Christ-Mission-SpiritualCare@advocatehealth.com or call 708.684.5175.

Service of RemembranceJanet Ozinga Chapel

Advocate Children's Hospital-Oak Lawn

Sun., May 17, 4 p.m.

A special memorial service will be held for the hospice and patient families of Christ Medical Center who have recently lost a loved one. Christ Mission & Spiritual Care and Advocate Hospice join together in leading this service of prayers and readings as a comfort for the families they serve. For more information, contact Penelope Gabriele at 630.829.1753. 

The next service will be Aug 9.

Hospice CornerObesogenic workplace adding pounds?For many faith leaders, congregational life can actually hamper health and fitness goals. From a parish kitchen filled with leftover snacks to comfortable chairs in parish offices and meeting rooms, a house of worship can easily become "obesogenic," a new medical term that describes factors that can make individuals overweight. An obesogenic environment is one that discourages exercise and healthy eating.

If your workday consists mainly of sitting and snacking, then your environment is likely contributing to your weight gain, according to experts at Advocate Christ Medical Center.

“Your habits are tied to your environment, and many of those decisions are tied to where you spend the majority of your day,” says Dr. Diana Teresa Zamojski, a family practice physician on staff at Christ Medical Center.

Here are some ideas for making your work environment more fitness-friendly:

✦ Arrange for leftover food from community events to be donated to soup kitchens, shelters, or drop-in centers.

✦ Bring an exercise bicycle into your office.

✦ Set a timer to remind yourself to get up and move around during the day.

✦ Bring a healthy lunch and snacks from home. Plan and pack them the night before.

✦ Be careful about drinking your calories. If you have a habit of drinking soda or coffee/tea with added milk and sugar, pay attention to how much you drink during the day. Consider cutting down or eliminating the dairy and sugar from hot beverages and switching from soda to sparkling water.

Location changed due to construction

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Within our communities of faith and our services of worship, our rhythms, liturgies, sacred texts and rituals point in the direction of gratitude. While this has been a core part of our faith traditions, modern medicine and science are beginning to take note of the impact of gratitude on our health, well-being and relationships. In fact, Dr. Amit Sood, Mayo Clinic physician who specializes in stress management and resiliency, recommends that people begin each day with a practice of gratitude.

Recently, I invited colleagues at Advocate Children’s Hospital to join me in a six-week gratitude challenge. At the start of

each day, we quietly bring to mind five people in our lives to whom we are grateful for their impact on our lives. Even though it’s been a few months since our group work

ended, participants continue to embrace this morning gratitude practice.

This daily practice has helped me and many of my colleagues focus our efforts in our work, how we lead teams and how we love our friends and family. Many have also found that it assists with stress reduction and staying true to their leadership values and mission.

Adults are not the only ones who can benefit from this daily practice. Families can invite younger children to name what they are grateful for at the dinner table, at bedtime or during weekly worship services. In my own family, my three-year-old daughter has expanded my vision and sense of what one can be grateful for.

Please join with me in inviting children and adults to daily practices of gratitude. Along with the members of the Advocate Children’s Hospital Mission and Spiritual Care Department, I give thanks for your partnership in nurturing the faith of those in our community.

Peace and blessings,Rev. Stacey Jutila, Vice President Mission & Spiritual Care

Dear giver of care,

Adults are not the

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from this daily practice.

A prayer for gratitudeGod,

Guide my heart and my mind, that I may begin each day with the light of gratitude,

May gratitude illuminate my path and help me to see those I walk alongside with a grateful heart.

Expand my vision of what and where I can find reasons to be grateful in my life.

To you, o Lord, I offer my deepest gratitude.

Amen

What’s the eNews in Pediatrics?

Check out the latest Health eNews pediatric-focused articles that feature Advocate Children’s Hospital specialists:

Does your child need a detox from the Internet?Dr. Gabrielle Roberts, clinical psychologist

Fast food portion sizes aren’t getting smaller.Dr. Matthew Smiley, pediatrician

Dietitians key to helping kids cope with food allergiesCarrie Ek, clinical nutritionist

Is Your Child Struggling with Unhealthy Weight? ProActive Kids (PAK) Can Help!

See attached bulletin for more information.

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Advocate introduces the Advocate Children’s Heart Institute brand

Advocate Health Care has introduced the adult Advocate Heart Institute and the Advocate Children’s Heart Institute brands in conjunction with the 2015 cardiovascular services marketing campaign. All pediatric heart programs now fall under the Advocate Children’s Heart Institute name.

Advocate’s new, statewide heart campaign uses a mix of television commercials, billboards, print ads, direct mail and digital advertisements.

Faith leaders are encouraged

to visit iheartadvocate.com, complete the heart risk assessment tool and encourage congregants and their families to take the survey as well. The new site informs individuals of their risk level for heart disease in less than five minutes. Those who find they are at a high risk can be seen by an Advocate cardiologist within 24 hours.

Advocate Children’s Heart Institute is one of the largest pediatric cardiology programs in the Midwest, and the team’s cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons offer a complete continuum of heart care --

from the developing fetus to adolescents -- as well as specialized care for adults with congenital heart disease.

Cardiac neurodevelopmental careResearch has shown that children born with complex heart defects are at greater risk for developmental delays. The Advocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn’s program has grown this year to assess pediatric heart patients to identify potential delays and disorders of all eligible patients, not just high-risk cardiac patients.

The clinic’s multidisciplinary team, led by the program’s medical director, Dr. Andrew Van Bergen, is composed of experts from a variety of pediatric areas, such as cardiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and audiology. This team works with parents and their children to identify areas of concern and then develops individualized support plans, such as implementation of early intervention services within the home and transitioning to early childhood development programs within the school system.

The program’s specialists also partner with the teachers and administrative staff at the child’s school to devise special education plans that will help the child reach his or her fullest potential.

Advocate Children’s Hospital – Oak Lawn4440 West 95th St., Oak Lawn, IL 60453

Advocate Children’s Hospital – Park Ridge1675 Dempster St., Park Ridge, IL 60068

1.855.312.KIDSStaff Chaplains:

Carol Stephens BCC, United Church of ChristEliza Stoddard Leatherberry BCC, United Church of ChristTracy Nolan, United Church of Christ

Administrative StaffStacey Jutila, BCC Evangelical Lutheran Church of AmericaMartha Huayamave, Executive Assistant

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Is Your Child Struggling with Unhealthy

Weight? ProActive Kids Can Help!

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FOR PARENTSQ What is ProActive Kids? A An 8 week program for kids ages 8-14 who are struggling with unhealthy weight. The program focuses on fitness, nutrition, and mental well-being. Visit www.proactivekids.org for more information, pictures, and registration.

Q How do I know if my child qualifies for the program?A Children must be in the 85th percentile and above to qualify for the program. Ask your doctor if your child qualifies.

Q How can I enroll my child for the program? A You can register your child online at www.proactivekids.org.

Q How do I know if I am enrolled? A Once you complete the online registration form, you are enrolled in the program. You will receive an email to confirm.

Q Is there a fee to join the program?A The program is FREE and is funded through generous contributions of local residents, hospitals, businesses and other organizations.

Q Do we have to attend every session for the 8 weeks?A We encourage you to attend as many classes as possible. Your success in the program is based on your commitment, both at PAK classes and at home. Make sure you are committed to the program and its schedule before you register.

Q Where is the PAK program located?A ProActive Kids is growing every day. Please visit www.proactivekids.org for our locations.

Q Can my doctor register my family? A No. You must register your child online at www.proactivekids.org or by telephone at 630-681-1558. You must also bring the referral form or a prescription form signed by your doctor.

Q  Is the program right for my child?A PAK was created to help children who are overweight or obese and these issues will be discussed during the program. You need to decide if that environment is right for your child and if you are committed to changing habits at home.Q What is my commitment as a parent?A You are responsible for transportation to and from the program, for helping your kids through the lessons they will be learning and enforcing these lessons in your home, for improvement of their health, proper nutrition and exercise, and support.  Your child’s overall health and nutritional decision-making depends on your lead and example.

Q When does the program take place and how long is the commitmentA The PAK program is held Monday and Wednesday  from 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Kids come alone on these days. On Fridays, also known as Family Day, the program lasts from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. One parent is required to attend and participate. Siblings over the age of 3 are also welcome!

Q Does the program work?A The program will work if you practice what you learn at home, on a daily basis. This must be a family promise to practice the lessons at home during the program and after it ends.

Q  What results will my child see?A While each child’s experience will vary, PAK is designed to improve in the following 5 measures:

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DOCTOR REFERRAL FORMQ How can I enroll a child? A As a physician, you can refer the child to the program by filling out this form.

Q How do I refer a child to the program?A Please complete either a ProActive Kids enrollment form or simply a prescription for the program. They must bring this within the first two weeks of participating.

Q Can I learn about their progress upon program completion?Atheir results back to you at the end of the program.

Patient name: ________________________________________

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star

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cent

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Acc

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caus

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