New Loyola Hepatology Clinic Announced at Golf Outing to Support Peoria-Area Liver Patients
May 10, 2018Categories: Hepatology, Philanthropy, Transplant
Tags: Hepatology, Philanthropy, Transplant
MAYWOOD, IL – At the 9th Jack Felts Memorial Golf Classic on Saturday, May 12, the new Loyola Jack Felts Hepatology Clinic in Peoria will be announced.
Loyola Medicine hepatologists treat Peoria-area patients for liver conditions including hepatitis B, hepatitis C, liver cancer, liver disease, primary biliary cholangitis, hemochromatosis, Wilson disease, autoimmune hepatitis, alcohol-induced liver injury and acute liver failure.
Loyola's liver team, headed by Scott Cotler, MD, travels twice each month to the hepatology clinic in Peoria, which conducts about 750 patient visits per year. The clinic enables Peoria-area patients and their families to receive highly specialized care in their local community. The clinic, located at UnityPoint Health Methodist, 221 NE Glen Oak Ave., is now named in honor of Jack Felts, who died in 2009 from liver cancer.
Mr. Felts' family and friends continued his legacy by creating the Jack Felts Hepatology Patient Fund, which helps families from the Peoria area with housing while their loved ones are being treated at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.
The fund is supported through the annual golf outing, which will be held Saturday, May 12 from noon to 8 pm at the Weaver Ridge Golf Club, 5100 N. WeaverRidge Blvd., Peoria.
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
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About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).