November 17, 2022 astatine 1:54 pm Kevin Haas
Diane Potts of the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford presents Dr. Kristen Green with a Rural Health Hero Award connected Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, astatine the assemblage connected Parkview Avenue. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)By Kevin Haas
Rock River Current
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ROCKFORD — The National Center for Rural Health Professionals astatine the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford celebrated National Rural Health Day connected Thursday by honoring 2 physicians and a infirmary for their committedness to serving agrarian communities.
Crawford Memorial Hospital successful Robinson, which is astir 245 miles southbound of Chicago and adjacent the Indiana border, received the Rural Health Hero Training Site Award.
Dr. Kristen Green and Dr. Melissa Cox, who some signifier astatine Springfield Clinic and Lincoln Memorial Hospital successful Lincoln, shared the Rural Health Hero Award.
“Both Dr. Green and Dr. Cox are astir deserving of the Rural Health Hero Award for endlessly giving of their clip and for serving arsenic humble, caring and compassionate relation models for the (Rural Medical Education Program) students, who are the adjacent procreation of agrarian providers,” said Diane Potts, adjunct manager of program outreach and improvement astatine the college.
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Green, who is simply a objective adjunct prof astatine the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is 1 of the lone OB/GYN providers successful Logan County. She volunteers to thatch third- and fourth-year aesculapian students successful what is 1 of the astir fashionable agrarian elective courses.
“I’m blessed that surviving successful a tiny assemblage … my patients are ever precise benignant to my students,” Green said successful accepting her award. “So they get plentifulness of acquisition and it’s a rarity that idiosyncratic doesn’t privation to person a student.”
Dr. Kristen Green accepts the 2022 Rural Health Hero Award connected Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, astatine the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)Cox, a objective adjunct prof successful the college’s Department of Pediatrics, volunteers to thatch aesculapian students successful her progressive medicine-pediatrics practice.
Crawford Memorial Hospital, nether CEO Doug Florkowski, started hosting third-year aesculapian students successful the Rural Medical Education Program successful October 2019 truthful they could person surgical grooming successful a agrarian setting. Surgeons Dr. Joseph Kunzelman, Dr. Preston Reilly and Dr. Fred Scott, who are objective adjunct professors successful the college’s Department of Surgery and Surgical Specialties, volunteered to thatch students astir agrarian surgical practice.
“When reflecting upon however these teaching opportunities person grown, on with the gracious lodging that is consistently offered to the students, CMH serves arsenic a existent agrarian wellness advocator for the RMED program,” said Potts, who presented the awards Thursday astatine the college. “Add to that their dedication to prime agrarian wellness attraction and wide imaginativeness for the aboriginal needs of Robinson, Crawford County and agrarian communities passim Illinois, and they are intelligibly Rural Health Heroes.”
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The National Center for Rural Health Professions astatine the UIC Health Sciences Campus-Rockford works to conscionable the wellness attraction needs of agrarian residents successful Illinois and astir the country. It has go a exemplary for different communities successful the nation, said Dr. Adrian Billings, main aesculapian serviceman of preventative attraction wellness services and subordinate prof astatine Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-Permian Basin.
Dr. Adrian Billings delivers a presumption connected agrarian wellness disparities connected Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, astatine the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)Billings delivered a presumption highlighting disparities successful agrarian wellness attraction arsenic portion of Thursday’s event. But helium besides praised Rockford for the exemplary it’s created.
“Each clip that I testified earlier the Texas legislature this year, some successful my oral and written testimony, I person invoked the sanction of University of Illinois Rockford, the National Center for Rural Health Professions,” helium said, “and that we request to replicate this programme successful Texas.”
This nonfiction is by Kevin Haas. Email him at khaas@rockrivercurrent.com or travel him connected Twitter at @KevinMHaas or Instagram @thekevinhaas.
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