Updated 11/22/2022 3:44 PM
Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital successful Lake Forest, Ill., and Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital successful Winfield, Ill., person earned a prestigious designation from the Parkinson's Foundation. The 2 suburban hospitals are present recognized arsenic Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence Satellite Centers of the Movement Disorders Center astatine Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Northwestern Memorial Hospital has been a Center of Excellence since 2002. Currently, lone 51 Centers of Excellence person been named worldwide; 37 are successful the United States.
A Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence is simply a aesculapian halfway with a specialized squad of neurologists, question upset specialists, carnal and occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, intelligence wellness specialists, and others who are up to day connected the latest Parkinson's illness medications, therapies and probe to supply the champion care. Each halfway is required to conscionable rigorous care, objective research, nonrecreational training, assemblage acquisition and outreach criteria.
"We are excited and honored to beryllium named a Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence Satellite Center," said Martha McGraw, MD, the Douglas L. Johnson Chair successful Neuroscience and co-director of the Movement Disorders Center astatine Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. "We stress a multidisciplinary, holistic attack to caring for patients, and the Center of Excellence designation reflects the outstanding personalized attraction our teams connection crossed the Northwestern Medicine system."
Lake Forest Hospital provides a unsocial programme that cares for patients and their families affected by Parkinson's illness and different question disorders by promoting health, acquisition and support. The programme is wholly donor-funded, with the ngo to supply wellness programming to each individuals affected by Parkinson's illness astatine nary cost.
"We are honored to beryllium recognized arsenic a Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence," said Avram Fraint, MD, a neurologist astatine Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital. "Our broad squad of experts delivers a patient-centered attack to the absorption of Parkinson's disease. We connection 8 unsocial workout classes, including aerobic, spot training, balance, agility and stretching that supply carnal and affectional enactment for those surviving with Parkinson's disease."
The Parkinson's Foundation leads the improvement of caller treatments and attraction models done its Centers of Excellence network. Each Center of Excellence is staffed by immoderate of the world's foremost specialists successful each facet of the complex, multidisciplinary attraction that delivers the champion results for radical with Parkinson's.
Lake Forest Hospital and Central DuPage Hospital enactment intimately with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine by recruiting survey participants and participating successful probe designed to to amended quality health.
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