AWARDS

Normal native

SEATTLE — Normal native Margery Moogk has received the American Association of Tissue Bank’s Jeanne Mowe Distinguished Service Award.

Moogk has been director of the Seattle-based Puget Sound Blood Center’s Northwest Tissue Services for 15 years. She has championed respect for tissue donors and their families and the equitable access to tissue for transplant, has pushed for strong quality assurance requirements, worked with the FDA to develop stringent tissue banking safety regulations, and has chaired an association task force to bolster professional standards.

Moogk is a daughter of Kenneth and Cleo Schroeder of Normal and is a graduate of Metcalf School, University High School and Vanderbilt University. She has a master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Illinois.

Stroke care

BLOOMINGTON — OSF St. Joseph Medical Center has earned the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Center, meaning that the hospital is a certified stroke center.

St. Joseph earned this distinction after the Joint Commission conducted an on-site review and concluded that St. Joseph’s stroke care program follows national standards and guidelines.

Last year, St. Joseph introduced minimally invasive coil embolization for patients with brain aneurysms. Earlier this year, the hospital opened a state-of-the-art neuro-vascular angiographic suite, the Oscar Cohn Neuro Vascular Suite, for physicians to conduct minimally invasive procedures to treat stroke, carotid artery disease, abdominal aortic aneurysms and other peripheral vascular disorders. Dr. Curtis Hayden is medical director of St. Joseph’s Primary Stroke Center.

APPOINTMENTS

Doctor services

BLOOMINGTON — Tami Kennett has been named specialty physician services manager for OSF St. Joseph Medical Center.

Kennett has been coordinator for the OSF Medical Group office in Clinton. She continues in that position, while overseeing daily operations of OSF Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine, OSF Podiatry, OSF Rheumatology and OSF Community Prenatal Clinic.

Kennett joined OSF as a nurse case manager for OSF Home Care in 2005. A Lincoln native, she earned her licensed practical nurse diploma in 1981 and her nursing diploma in 1989. She received a bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1996 and, earlier this year, received her master’s degree in nursing systems administration from Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University.

Health information

BLOOMINGTON — Debra Whitley has been named director of health information services for OSF St. Joseph Medical Center.

She is responsible for overseeing the daily operations and staff of the medical center’s health information records. She replaces Gwen Yurieci, who retired after more than 30 years of service.

Whitley joined the OSF Healthcare System in 1996 as an information systems consultant in Peoria. She has been manager of clinical decision support at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, director of medical records at OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center in Pontiac, and project manager at OSF HealthCare in Peoria. She is a graduate of Illinois State University and a registered health information administrator.

Pain relief

BLOOMINGTON — Dr. Naveen Tipirneni has joined Millennium Pain Center, 1015 S. Mercer Ave., Bloomington.

Tipirneni is partnering with Drs. Ramsin Benyamin, Ricardo Vallejo and Atiq Rehman.

Tipirneni is board-certified in anesthesiology and recently completed a fellowship in pain management at Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of Harvard.

Clinton doctor

CLINTON — Dr. Daren J. Rauch has joined Clinton Medical Group as a primary care physician.

A native of Mason City, Rauch graduated from Augustana College in Rock Island and earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. He served his residency at Methodist Medical Center, Peoria.

Rauch is certified in advanced cardiac life support, pediatric advanced life support, advanced life support on obstetrics and neonatal resuscitation.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mammography

NORMAL — The Gale Keeran Center for Women has added digital mammography with computer-aided detection to its diagnostic services at Fort Jesse Imaging Center.

The GE Senographe 2000D full-field digital mammography is helping physicians to detect and diagnose breast cancer earlier and more accurately. The Keeran center said it is the first health care provider in Bloomington-Normal area with this technology.

Digital mammography uses computers and specially designed digital detectors to produce high quality digital images that are displayed on a high resolution computer monitor. The images are available immediately for a radiologist to review and focus on specific areas or to aid in the detection of small calcifications and masses that may be signs of early cancer.

Alzheimer’s roof sit

MEADOWS — Connie Cook, activity director at Meadows Mennonite Retirement Community, will have her second annual Campout for a Cure beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday.

Cook plans to stay on the roof above the east entrance to the Meadows facility until she raises $10,000 for the Alzheimer’s Association, which supports research, programs and services for the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Cook will donate the money to the association’s Memory Walk, which will be Oct. 6 in Bloomington-Normal.

Last year, Cook raised $5,625 in her first campout. Anyone interested may make a check out to the Alzheimer’s Association and mail it to Cook at P.O. Box 201, Fairbury IL 61739.

Cook, of Fairbury, is raising the money in memory of her father, the late Michael Hines, who had Alzheimer’s disease, and to benefit families that deal with Alzheimer’s. The Meadows facility has two Alzheimer’s-dementia units.

Lupus Walk

EUREKA — The 3rd Annual Pat Nohl Life Without Lupus Memorial Walk will be 9:15 a.m. Aug. 11 at Eureka Lake.

The walk is conducted to raise awareness about lupus and to raise money for the Lupus Foundation of Central Illinois, which supports research, and books and materials for newly diagnosed patients. The event is conducted in memory of Pat Nohl, formerly of Goodfield, who died of lupus in 2004 at age 44.

Registration for the two-mile walk begins at 7:30 a.m. Aug. 11. To register earlier, call Phyllis Troyer at (309) 965-2342 or Barb Metroff at (309) 454-6045.

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