Loyola Preemies, Families Join Fun of Halloween
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October 28, 2010
Loyola Preemies, Families Join Fun of Halloween
Nurses make costumes for hospital's smallest patients
WHAT: Pint-sized ghosts and goblins will descend on Loyola University Health Systems neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) this Halloween when the hospitals smallest patients dress up in costumes created by the nurses.
Our nurses have been making costumes for our patients for more than 30 years, said Elaine Trulis, RN, nurse manager, NICU. We look forward to this tradition every year because it helps to bring joy to these parents who are coping with a great deal.
In the past, costumes have ranged from little hula girls to butterflies to vampires. Other favorites have included a preemie-size Harry Potter and Howard Stern.
WHEN: 2 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 31
WHERE: Loyola University Health System
2160 S. First Avenue
Maywood, IL 60153
MEDIA: Interested media can call Nora Plunkett in Media Relations at (708) 417-5014.
Loyola University Health System (LUHS) is a member of Trinity Health. Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, LUHS is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and more than 30 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald® Children's Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park includes the 255-licensed-bed community hospital, the Professional Office Building housing 150 private practice clinics, the Adult Day Care, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center at Melrose Park.
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(708) 216-6268
nplunkett@lumc.edu
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