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Parish nurse retreat a time of networking, renewal
10/22/2010
SPRINGFIELD --Parish nurses working in churches throughout the Illinois Great Rivers Conference met together Aug. 6-7 for a weekend of renewal, networking, worship and celebrating a shared heritage of healing established by Florence Nightingale.
Retreat leader for the second annual parish nurse retreat was Helen Chigaros, co-founder of the Parish Nurse Network of the Kankakee River Valley and Executive Director of the Azzarelli Outreach Clinic in Kankakee, a faith-based free health care...Compassionate care: diverse group of parish nurses graduate
9/2/2010
By D.W. Norris
The Southern
CARTERVILLE — It took about a dozen years for it to happen, but everything finally came together for nurse and respiratory therapist Steve Rhodes to become a parish nurse with Southern Illinois Healthcare.
Rhodes said he helped start a home visitation program with SIH 12 years ago. This summer was his first chance to take the next step and become a parish nurse. Rhodes was one of a dozen nurses who took part in a...
