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Year-long Franciscan Health program promotes healthy lifestyle to prevent diabetes

Franciscan Health is offering pre-diabetic patients the opportunity to help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes with its year-long Diabetes Prevention Program. Franciscan Health’s 12-month online Diabetes Prevention Program follows guidelines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that have proven to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.[Read More…]

Franciscan Health resident Dr. Nishant Kumar, left, receives the Lowell Goldberg Memorial Scholarship from Dr. Goldberg’s widow Beverly Goldberg and Dr. Tilemahos Spyratos. (Provided photo)

Franciscan Health resident receives Goldberg Memorial Scholarship

The Franciscan Health Foundation announced that first-year medical resident Dr. Nishant Kumar is this year’s recipient of its prestigious Dr. Lowell Goldberg Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually to the graduating osteopathic medicine student who has earned the highest clinical rotation scores.  “I feel very honored to have received[Read More…]

Franciscan Health joins BroadStreet for creation of new violence prevention effort

Franciscan Health and BroadStreet recently launched a new collaboration with the hope of leveraging data into action using nationally available dashboards for promoting violence prevention across communities. The dashboards present evidence-based interventions specific to a community’s demographics and socioeconomic factors. To create the dashboards, Stacey Quick, Franciscan Health community health[Read More…]

Franciscan Health 20th Classic Golf Outing is Aug. 15

The 20th Franciscan Health Classic will be held on Monday, Aug. 15, at Olympia Fields Country Club.  Proceeds from this year’s event will help fund a new Medical Simulation Lab at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields. Laurie Crosby, Franciscan Health Foundation executive director, said the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for[Read More…]

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