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Save the Date for the third annual Golden Toothbrush Awards! This year’s event will be held Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at the Four Seasons Chicago, located at 120 East Delaware!
Details to follow! We look forward to seeing you there!
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We have friends on Facebook. Videos on Vimeo. Pictures on Flickr. We can upload, download and reload documents. We can share stories and thoughts on our blog. The point is times they-are-a-changin’, and Erie Family Health Center is right there with them. Not only have we change the look of Spotlight, we have changed the way you can read it. If you love Spotlight or any of our other publications, you can now view them online on your blackberry, iPad, iPhone and Kindle.
Why read digitally? We’ve developed some very cool new features for the online versions of our publications, including click-through capability on most of our stories and articles. So if you see a write up on one of our sites and want to learn more about it, you just hit a button to e-mail the contact or to follow the link to the source. If you’re reading about an upcoming Erie event, like Salud and the City, and want to know more, you’re just a click away from visiting our Web site for more information.
It is a great step forward for Erie. Enjoy this issue- both the hard copy you receive in the mail and the equally excellent edition waiting for you in cyberspace.
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Erie Family Health Center was named one of the Top 100 Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune! Erie staff members and board chair Brian Marsella attended an event hosted by the Tribune on Tuesday, November 9 at the Chase Auditorium to be recognized for this honor. The group also have the opportunity to meet and speak with Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz.
Watch a special video message from Erie’s President and CEO Dr. Lee Francis or read our company profile online! Be sure to pick up your copy of the Chicago Tribune today for a special feature magazine!
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Check out the Salud and the City exclusive event preview video! We hope to see you on Thursday, February 24 at LaSalle Power Company!
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Erie celebrated Halloween on Friday, October 29th with lots of candy, fun and of course costumes! In the spirit of the holiday, employees dressed up as their favorite characters for our annual contest! Check out our spooky winners below
BEST GROUP COSTUME: Erie Helping Hands as Toy Story
BEST INDIVIDUAL COSTUME: Araceli Garcia (Erie West Town) as a Gypsy
BEST DUET: Princess Yolanda Hendrix (Erie Helping Hands Dental) & Frog
BEST HAIR: Margarite Varela (Erie West Town) Rock 'n' Roll
BEST HALLOWEEN SPIRIT: Devilish David Velez
HONORABLE MENTION: Lee Francis, Starbucks Server Extraordinaire
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Join Erie at LaSalle Power Company and help make Chicago healthier by attending Salud and the City, an event to directly help your Chicago community! Tickets on sale now for $65 and include ALL drinks, appetizers, live music by South of 80, silent auction, raffle and MORE! See you there on Thursday, February 24th from 6PM to 9PM!
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It is pretty much an October ritual with Chicagoans: with the first gust of cold air, which inevitably comes two days after a 90 degree-day, we all start dreaming of when winter will end. But don’t feel too down, because there is a lot to keep your mind off of the weather here at Erie Family Health Center!
Erie held its first ever health fair at Erie Helping Hands this month. Check out the details and pictures below, and we hope you will join us next year! Be sure to take a look at Who’s Who @ Erie to read about Lynnette Suarez’s trip to Washington D.C. and the award that came back with her! And don’t forget to Think Pink this October during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Read more below about prevention in and out of the exam room in Erie Health Tips.
Want an excuse to get out and about the city? Be sure to save the date for Erie’s upcoming event, Salud and the City, being held Thursday, February 24, 2011 at LaSalle Power Company! Join Erie to help make Chicago healthier. Check out the exclusive video here! Tickets go on sale next month!
Still can’t get enough of Erie? Be sure to follow our blog, Beats Per Minute, for the latest happenings, events and news at Erie and in our community. All this and more can be found in October 2010 E-Spotlight!
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This month Erie was presented with a check for a grant we received from the Aetna Foundation for the Henson Wellness Program at Erie Henson School-Based Health Center. The support from Aetna will allow Erie to provide the Henson Wellness Program to directly help reduce childhood obesity through three types of innovative programs: 1. BodyWorks afterschool program, 2. Building Active Lives Around Nutrition Centered Education (BALANCE) classroom-based curriculum and 3. Henson Garden Initiative.
The BodyWorks program will provide obese or overweight girls with the tools/strategies to improve eating and exercise habits. The BALANCE program will help children incorporate good nutrition and physical activity into their daily lives. The launch the Henson Garden Initiative will increase knowledge of nutrition while engaging children in physical activity by planting and maintaining a garden at Henson Elementary. All three of the programs are important to help children live healthier, happier lives. Thank you Aetna!
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Join Erie Family Health Center on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at LaSalle Power Company (500 N. LaSalle) from 6-9PM for Salud and the City, an evening to directly help Erie patients! Tickets go on sale November 10, 2010. For more details visit our Facebook page! Cocktails, appetizers, live music performed by South of 80, silent auction and more! Cheers to a healthier Chicago!
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Check out Erie’s September E-Spotlight, our official electronic newsletter! In this issue you can catch up on Erie News, including learning more about Erie becoming Joint Commission Accredited! You can also read about Dr. Gus Souri, VP of Oral Health, and his achievement of winning the 2010 Health and Medicine Policy Research Group’s Medicine Award. Don’t forget to read Health Tips and learn more about the Everyone Matters Art Exhibit on October 8. All this and more can be found in September 2010 E-Spotlight!
