By Sarah Paddack, grateful mother I am grateful to be the mom of two healthy children. But that wasn’t always the case. Both of my kids were born premature. My son Liam spent 40 nights in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where time stood still and I barely stepped…...
Making the Rounds
Welcome to Making the Rounds, Advocate Charitable Foundation’s blog focused on how philanthropy makes a difference across Advocate for our patients and their grateful families, our physicians and caregivers, hospitals and communities - and the donors themselves. Here you will also find news and stories of gifts at work made possible by the generous support of our donors and partners.
If you are a patient, donor or partner who would like to share your story to be possibly featured on our blog, please email us at advocategiving@advocatehealth.com.
Beyond the hospital walls
Over the last decade, the Advocate Bethany Fund has awarded $8 million in grants to benefit job training programs, a medical shelter for homeless adults and violence prevention programs for youth. More than 60,000 lives have been positively impacted through the services of community organizations like Lawndale Christian Legal Center…...
The traveling survivor
By Stuart M. Sankovitch On December 22, 1994, after a routine check-up at the pediatrician, my parents received news that their three-year-old son could have a brain tumor. Thanks to Dr. Hansen, I was rushed to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, where a thorough examination could be done. Dr. John Ruge…...
Shaping the health care of tomorrow
The Leona Loeber Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory was dedicated in 2006, thanks to a generous gift by the Loeber Family, made in memory of their late mother, Leona Loeber, a patient with melanoma who was cared for at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. This week the Loeber family visited the lab…...
