The Outpatient Center (OPC) Pavilion Team is proud of our registration/Revenue Cycle training, team-building, and growth over the past few months! We have a lot of new faces and also some familiar faces that many fellow Riverside employees may recognize! Whether you need to stop by for a test your physician or provider has ordered, you want to just stop in to take a tour, or if you want to just say hello to your Riverside team members at the OPC– we want to let you know we are here for you with Kindness in our Veins! We are OneRiverside

During the month of November, the home care and hospice community honors the millions of nurses, home care aides, therapists, and social workers who make a remarkable difference for the patients and families they serve. These heroic caregivers play a central role in our health care system and in homes across the nation. To recognize their efforts, we call upon all Americans to commemorate the power of caring, both at the home and in their local communities, and ask them to join with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) by celebrating November as Home Care and Hospice Month.

In addition, Home Care Aide Week takes place the second full week of the month, November 7-13, 2021. Join us in honoring these compassionate, tireless workers who play an invaluable role for their clients as caregivers, companions, and friends.

Fast Facts

-Home care providers will travel about 8 billion miles to deliver the best health care in the world;

-Ninety percent of Americans want to age in place, and home care is the preferred method of health care delivery among the disabled, elderly, and chronically ill;

-and Home care provides high-quality, compassionate care to more than 5 million Americans annually.

National Association for Home Care & Hospice

The GME students celebrated Diwali.

In honor of the white oak trees that previously grew on the land beneath Riverside Medical Center, we have
created an employee/RMG provider contest called TREE-Mendous (replaces previous Brightest Star
contest).

TREE-Mendous is the highest recognition we can grant any Riverside employees/providers with recognition
and prizes focused on our consistently best of the best providers and staff from all departments/areas of
our entire health system.

Eligible providers and employees are those who rise high each day, consistently living in words and actions
the behaviors that create remarkable journeys for coworkers and patients/residents and in good standing
according to Human Resources records.

Tree-mendous staff branch out as role models to us all—living our key words and Professional Standards of
Behavior with every patient and coworker, striving for caring, positive connections with every person
ALWAYS.

The photo shows Nick Hunt, RN, Tom Barkowski, AT, Dr. Jason Shin, Mary Brandenburg, FNP-BC on the sidelines with the Kankakee High School Football team celebrating an undefeated season and conference championship.
Tom is the athletic trainer and takes care of all the athletes at Kankakee High School keeping them healthy
Record-breaking season – only the 3rd undefeated football team in school history, boys soccer wins first-ever regional championship, girls volleyball and tennis win conference championships, golf wins conference championship