Jamie Munks, Stacy St. Clair, Dan Petrella, Lisa Schencker and Gregory Pratt
Chicago Tribune
As the first COVID-19 vaccine administered in Illinois was plunged into Dr. Marina Del Riosâ left arm Tuesday, she thought about all the people who didnât live to see the historic day.
Her former patients. The health care workers who treated the virus and lost their lives because of it. The friend who died in the early days of the pandemic.
âI canât give you a total number of the people I know who have died or lost loved ones. Iâve stopped counting,â said Del Rios, the social emergency medicine director at the University of Illinois Hospital. âYou never want any lives to be lost, but so many at the same time weighs even heavier on you.â
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Effingham, IL / Effingham Radio
Dec 15, 2020 4:44 PM
Springfield, IL -(Effingham Radio)- Mary Starmann-Harrison, president and CEO of HSHS, has shared her plans to retire in the second half of 2021. Starmann-Harrison has led the system for almost 10 years and will assist in transitioning her successor prior to her retirement in 2021. Korn Ferry has been retained to begin a national search for her replacement.
“Mary’s contributions to the HSHS ministry over the past decade have far exceeded the usual measures for success,” said Sister Jomary Trstensky, OSF, chair of Hospital Sisters Ministries. “In everything she undertook, she acted with passion and with a personal investment in the underlying HSHS mission. She maintained an absolute vigilance for the religious values of the organization even while she searched for new and contemporary ways of serving those entrusted to our care.”
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