Inpatient Unit at Rush University Medical Center

 

Horizon was selected by Rush University Medical Center to create and operate the first inpatient hospice unit in a major teaching hospital in Chicago. The Ada F. Addington Inpatient Hospice Unit, named after Horizon’s founder, will accommodate up to 13 patients from all over the city and suburbs. Housed on the fifth floor of the Johnston R. Bowman Center on the Rush campus, it will have all the touches of home. 

The Horizon staff will make sure that all patients and visitors receive the comforting care that is the hallmark of hospice. Pediatric and adult patients from any hospital, residential facility or private home will be welcomed on the unit. We expect the unit to open in early 2012.

 The agreement between Horizon Hospice and Rush University Medical Center was signed
on September 23, 2011. Those attending included:

First row: Horizon Treasurer John Brodson, Founder and Campaign Chair Ada Addington, President Mary Runge; Rush University Medical Center Senior Vice President Hospital Affairs J. Robert Clapp, Jr., Johnston R. Bowman Center Administrator Teri Sommerfeld, and Johnston R. Bowman Health Center Director Anthony Perry, MD. 
 
Second row: Horizon Board member and Campaign Co-Chair Eleanor Clarke, Horizon former Chairperson of the Board David Hanold and current Chairperson William Wachs; Rush’s Barb Martin, Director of Nursing/Rehabilitation & Mental Health, and Clayton Thomason, Professor of Religion and Ethics in Medicine; Chairman, Department of Religion, Health & Human Values; and Director, Program in Healthcare Ethics.

Other Campaign Committee Members include Whitney W. Addington, MD, Campaign Chair; Sally L. Downey and Martha Mabie Campaign Co-Chairs; Horizon Board members Carol Asher, Laurie Rosenow, and Reverend Monsignor Kenneth Velo; and Joan Flanagan, James Patrick Foley, Sharon B. King, Rebecca Knight, Ellen O’Connor, Irving Stenn and James Webster, MD.　

 Please Help Us Complete Our Circle of Care

Horizon’s Board of Directors and the campaign committee members are working to raise $2.7 million.
The Coleman Foundation has awarded Horizon a matching grant of $100,000. Please help us meet this challenge grant by making a generous contribution to the campaign. 

 

 Your participation in our campaign will ensure that we provide each patient with a sense of life affirmation and medical competence that addresses physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs.

The unit will accommodate thirteen private patient rooms, two of which can be converted to pediatric rooms.  Each room will have a fold-out bed so family members can spend the night, art work and a television.  Another room designated for spiritual care can be altered to a patient room should the need arise.  A central gathering area includes a fireplace, aquarium and children’s play space. The unit also features a family room and kitchenette with table and chairs, sink, microwave and refrigerator.   An office for the nurse manager and medical director and space for staff/team meetings is also planned. The inpatient unit will also serve as an educational and training site for future clinicians.  

For more information or to make a contribution to the campaign, please contact Licia Chiazim at lchiazim@horizonhospice.org or (312) 733-2233.

Watch us as we complete Our Circle of Care