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| Volunteers John Baker, Edward Johnson, Shirley Harris and JoAnn VanLengen were among the volunteers to be honored at the inaugural “Birthday Bunch” which will be hosted monthly by the Volunteer Services department. |
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| Staff members from Volunteer Services, Health Information Systems and Allen Foundation sing Happy Birthday to volunteer Barb Nesbit and other volunteers who were honored on February 15 in the first-ever “Birthday Bunch”. |
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Patient Satisfaction Survey Winners - December 2011
Check out departments who reached their stretch goals for the month of December. Remember, these posters are outside of the Allen Cafe. Click here for poster 1 and click here for poster 2. |
Attention Employees Using IHS Insurace For Your Prescription Medications
If you are an Allen, Sumner or Grundy employee (or covered family member), the Allen retail pharmacies are your network pharmacies for maintenance medication fills. We arrange pick-ups for those working off-site or third shift as well as regular 9am-5:30pm M-F operating hours at the Allen Clinic Pharmacy. United Medical Park Pharmacy is currently open 9am-5pm Tues-Fri (for prescriptions needed on Monday, give Allen Clinic Pharmacy a call).
Call Allen Clinic Pharmacy (319-235-3777) or United Medical Park Clinic Pharmacy (319-833-5725) with questions on how we can help meet your prescription needs. Don't get stranded at an out-of-network pharmacy when you need your medications!
Amy Bucknell, PharmD.
Allen Clinic Pharmacy Manager
319-235-3947 |
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Allen Classified Ads
Did you know that on the classified ads, there are houses for rent for students at the Allen College, or if you need temporary housing. Along with houses and apartments for rent, you can find anything from prom dresses to someone who can catch up on all those household projects you haven't accomplished.
How do you find our Classified Ads? You can link to the Classified Ads in our directory above, or go to AllenNet and click "Classified Ads" in the Quick Links box on the homepage, or click here.
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And The Victor Is....
Although it was a bitter (sweet?) fight to the end, the Admissions team claimed the victory over Ambulatory Services at the end of the Cupcake War. The real winner, though, was the American Heart Association – all proceeds from the fun event will be donated to the AHA’s Heart Walk. Nearly $2,100 was raised to help fund heart disease and stroke research. (Which was doubled from last year's amount!)
Thank you to everyone to who baked and purchased cupcakes!
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My name is Ted Cochran and I am truly blessed.
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I remember like it was yesterday, the day I was told I would need a kidney transplant. It was supposed to be another routine nephrologist checkup over the lunch hour. I was wrong. After greetings and a brief conversation the doctor spoke the words that would change my life forever, “you will need a kidney transplant within two years”.
My story begins when I came down with an unexplained high fever and abdominal pain when I was a toddler. Through tests the doctors found that I had a blockage at the tip of my bladder that was causing urine to back up into my kidneys. The doctors performed surgery to remove the blockage, but my kidneys sustained permanent damage and I was diagnosed with chronic renal disease. It was also at this time the doctors found I had a third pelvic kidney, which would end up being a huge blessing as it sustained me from needing a transplant for many years. Throughout my childhood I endured multiple major surgeries to repair the damage from the blockage and spent many months in the hospital and recovering at home. Throughout the years my chronic renal failure advanced into end stage renal disease.
On August 29, 2006, at the age of 28 years old I received the most loving, compassionate, and selfless gift from my mother, the "Gift of Life" by the way of a kidney transplant. My mother so lovingly donated one of her kidneys to me so I could have a chance at a healthier and extended life.
Her gift has given me the opportunity to share precious time and create memories with my family and the people I love. My wife and I are expecting our first child in March, and this experience makes me feel even more grateful for the true gift of life my transplant has been. It has provided me the chance to help others and pass on the blessings that I have received throughout my life.
With the passion of wanting to honor my mother's gift and to be an advocate for the very thing that saved my life - organ donation, I founded the My Angel Foundation. My Angel Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on inspiring Iowans to become registered organ, eye and tissue donors. In the past five years My Angel Foundation has raised over $250,000 toward organ, eye and tissue donation awareness in Iowa and has seen the number of Iowans registered as organ donors increase from nearly 90,000 in 2007 to over 1,625,000 in 2012. To learn more about My Angel Foundation visit www.myangelfoundation.org.
In hindsight, would I change anything if I could? Absolutely not. Through my journey, I have been introduced to so many great people that have consciously and unconsciously touched my life. Going through the transplant process molded me into the person I am today.
For an easy way to sign up to be a donor, click here.
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| I'm sharing two stories of inspirational women who helped change the view of African American culture. I hope you enjoy these additions to my Black History Month stories. |
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Mahalia Jackson was born October 26, 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mahalia Jackson is viewed by many in the African American culture as the pinnacle of gospel music. Her singing began at the age of four in her church, the Plymouth Rock Baptist Church in New Orleans. Her early style blended the freedom and power of gospel with the stricter style of the Baptist Church.
In 1927, at the age of 16, she moved to Chicago and worked as a domestic, but soon after found work as a soloist at churches and funerals after joining the Greater Salem Baptist Church choir. Her unique contralto voice caught the attention of many small churches from coast to coast.
Mahalia Jackson began recording in 1937. Throughout her recording years she toured with Thomas A. Dorsey, performed on the Ed Sullivan show and she sang for President Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. Her shows were packed in Europe and in United States.
Mahalia was very prominent in the Civil Rights movement with Dr. Martin Luther King. She performed at his rallies, even singing an old slave spiritual before his famous “I have a Dream” speech at the march on Washington in 1963. She also sang at his funeral five years later.
Some of her songs include “What Child is This”, “How I Got Over”,”Go Tell It on the Mountain”, “Amazing Grace”, “Take my Hand, Precious Lord”. Honors include being on a 1998 U.S. postage stamp, and in 1978 she was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
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Jane Edna Hunter, an African American social worker, was born December 13, 1882 in Pendleton, South Carolina. Her parents were sharecroppers on the Woodburn Plantation Farm. After her father died in 1892, she did housework for local families. She was taught to read and write by the daughter of her employer where she was a live-in servant. She graduated from Fergerson College in 1896, and completed advanced nursing training n 1904. In 1925, she passed the Ohio bar examination.
The focus of Jane’s adult life was the improvement of conditions for African American women. She sought to protect and guide poor young single girls from the south who migrated north for work as she had. In 1911, in Cleveland Ohio, she founded the Working Girls Association which became the Phillis Wheatley Association the next year. The association established a settlement house that provided lodging, training, and work placement. Hunter’s project became the model for similar projects nationwide.
She held honorary degrees from Allen University, Fisk University, Central State University and Tuskegee Institute. She is honored with the Jane Edna Hunter Museum at the Phillis Wheatley Center in Cleveland, Ohio. |
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