APPOINTMENTS

Pediatrician

NORMAL -- Dr. Adam Ebreo of Charleston has joined the medical staff of Sugar Creek Medical Associates in Normal.

Ebreo comes to Sugar Creek from a pediatrics practice in Mattoon, where he also served as chief of pediatrics at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center.

Ebreo is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received his doctor of osteopathy from Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in Downers Grove.

He completed his pediatrics residency at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria.

He is board certified in pediatrics from the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Osteopathic Association, the Illinois State Medical Society and the Illinois Osteopathic Medical Society.

Administrator

GIBSON CITY -- Karen Christensen of Gibson City has been named administrator of Heritage Manor-Gibson City.

She has responsibility for daily operations and regulatory compliance of the facility, which is licensed for 75 beds.

Christensen, who has been with Heritage Enterprises for 10 years, had been associate director of census development with Heritage Enterprises in Bloomington. Heritage Enterprises owns or manages nursing homes throughout Illinois, including Heritage Manor-Gibson City.

Christensen received her bachelor's degree from Illinois State University and became a marketing assistant at Heritage Enterprises in 1997.

Dietitian

HOPEDALE -- Crystal Cresto, a registered dietitian and licensed dietary nutritionist, is the new dietitian at Hopedale Medical Complex.

Cresto will be working with the food services department, patients, day care children and staff, and with members of the complex's Wellness Center.

She has a bachelor's degree in family and consumer sciences from Illinois State University and performed her clinical dietetic internship at Saint Louis University.

She worked for six years at Fresenius Medical Center as a renal dietitian, working with patients with end-stage renal disease.

She also worked on childhood nutrition at a weight-loss camp as well as a treatment center for anorexia and bulimia in Arizona.

AWARDS

Diabetes services

NORMAL -- Diabetes Services offered at BroMenn Regional Medical Center, Normal, and Eureka Community Hospital, Eureka, have been awarded the American Diabetes Association Education Recognition Certificate. The certification indicates that BroMenn's and Eureka's programs offer quality diabetes self-management education, which is essential to effective diabetes treatment.

BroMenn was first awarded the certification in 2001. Eureka was first honored in 2005.

Recertification recognizes that the two hospitals' programs continue to meet national standards for diabetes self-management education programs.

Audiologist

BLOOMINGTON -- Kelly Pyle, a clinical audiologist at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center since last year, has earned her doctorate of audiology from A.T. Still University in Mesa, Ariz.

A.T. Still is among only four universities in the country that offers a doctoral program for practicing audiologists.

Pyle earned her bachelor's degree in communicative disorders and her master's degree in audiology from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

She gained practicum experience at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, and at Carle Clinic, Bloomington.

Before joining St. Joseph, Pyle spent several years as a clinical audiologist/clinical fellow audiologist at Saint Francis and as a clinical fellow audiologist for the Vermilion Association for Special Education in Oakwood.

She is a member of the American Academy of Audiology, American Speech Language Hearing Association and the Illinois Academy of Audiology.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Diabetes Walk

PEORIA -- The Third Annual Walk to Cure Diabetes, sponsored by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, will be Sept. 16 at Glen Oak Park, Peoria.

Registration begins at 11:30 a.m., with the walk at 1 p.m. Money raised goes to the foundation for research to find a cure for type 1 (juvenile) diabetes.

Organizers hope to raise $330,000.

About 3,000 people are expected to participate, including some from the Bloomington-Normal area.

Bloomington-Normal area children receive pediatric endocrinology care from the Pediatric Diabetes Resource Center at Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria.

For more information, call (309) 243-2131 or e-mail jennifervandewiele@insightbb.com or visit www.jdrf.org.

Logan County

LINCOLN -- Logan County Health Department is among seven health departments in Illinois chosen as a pilot site for the Local Health Department Accreditation program being developed and tested in Illinois.

Logan County will test and report on the best ways to evaluate essential public health services, such as health assessments, disease investigation, and community engagement in health education and prevention.

In the coming months, the health department will undertake a self-evaluation of its services and programs against 50 nationally defined measures of fundamental health department functions.

A panel of outside experts will review the evaluation and assist the department with quality improvement.

Other health departments chosen are Adams County, Kendall County, Lake County, Clay County, Peoria City/County and Winnebago County.

Submit Health Digest items to Health Editor Paul Swiech at pswiech@pantagraph.com.

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