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KishHealth to buy DeKalb Clinic By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – KishHealth System will purchase the DeKalb Clinic in Sycamore within the first few months of 2015, officials from both health care facilities announced Tuesday. When the deal closes, the DeKalb Clinic will become one of seven primary care facilities under the KishHealth System Physician Group, KishHealth System President and
CEO Kevin Poorten and DeKalb Clin- strong role in improving the overall health of the popic Chairman Dr. Roger Haab said. ulation we serve,” Poorten said the factors driving Poorten said. “So it the deal included the need to improve was very important quality and efficiency of health care for the health system services while working under the to have a stronger guidelines of the Affordable Care Act. and stronger primary Adding the DeKalb Clinic, a large care base as part of multispecialty facility, will strengthour network.” en local health care and ensure the Kevin Poorten The physician clinic can continue to thrive, they group arm of the said. “Primary care plays a really KishHealth System will triple in size
with the DeKalb Clinic acquisition. The physician group has 13 employed physicians while the DeKalb Clinic has 20 employed physicians and 10 who have contracts with the clinic. The plan, Poorten said, is for most of these physicians to become KishHealth System employees. Although they offer some duplicate services such as urology and mammography, both health care officials said they do not expect any changes in services after the purchase.
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“This is simply an extension of the hospital’s ancillary network or service network,” Haab said. “So it’s one more place to offer the same services we do now. The fact that we have the facilities to do that, it makes it a little easier.” After about three years of discussion, officials from both health care facilities signed a nonbinding letter of intent last week, telling employees
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Teri Wille (right), of Kingston, works on a clay piece during a pottery class Thursday, as part of the continuing education program at Kishwaukee College in Malta. She takes this course with her mother (center), Kathy White, and her daughter Catherine Wille (left), 21, who is one of Wille’s two daughters in the noncredit course. BELOW: Catherine Wille works on her clay creation.
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MALTA – Students usually feel like a family by the end of Tonya Hardy’s classes at Kishwaukee College, but this time they started with that feeling. Hardy’s continuing education pottery class has four students: a grandmother, mother and two daughters, all from the same family. “I’ve never had a class that was all family members,” said Hardy, who has taught at the college for seven years. “It’s interesting, but it’s just like having other students. It’s just that they already know each other well.” Although the students’ relationship
For more To view Kishwaukee College’s continuing education classes, visit kishwaukeecollege.edu. Potential students can register for a class online, by mailing a registration form to Admissions, Registration and Records, 21193 Malta Road, Malta, in person at the Admissions, Registration and Records office or by phone 815-825-2086, ext. 2040.
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CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican Bruce Rauner defended their records on minority hiring, public safety and gun control on Tuesday during the second televised debate of the hotly contested Illinois governor’s race, a Chicago event heavily focused on issues impacting African-American voters. Quinn said as governor he’s hired minorities in key administration positions – including in the post of deputy governor and the head of the Department of Public Health – but said Rauner, a venture capitalist, didn’t hire African Americans at the highest levels of his Chicago-based firm, GTCR. “Our cabinet is diverse and many African Americans are heading departments,” Quinn said, labeling his opponent an “outsourcer” of jobs overseas. He also noted his support for the Affordable Care Act and pushing to increase the minimum wage. Rauner shot back saying Quinn’s policies have failed blacks Illinoisans and that companies his firm invested in have African American employees. “Gov. Quinn is taking the African American vote for granted,” Rauner said. “African American families are suffering.” Black voters in Chicago and its suburbs have been credited with helping Quinn, a Democrat, win a narrow victory in 2010. Many expect the voting bloc to play a key role again. Rauner has been trying to aggressively make inroads. He’s opened a campaign office on the city’s South Side, given about $1 million to a credit union for loans to small black businesses and touted endorsements from black ministers. In response, Quinn has questioned Rauner’s hiring and accused him of trying to buy votes. The debate at the DuSable Museum of African American History was hosted by groups including the Chicago Urban League, WBBM-TV and black radio station, WVON. Organizers said the focus on business, education and public safety would also speak to voters statewide ahead of Nov. 4.
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