Newswise — WHAT: A “Holiday Lights and Love Caravan” vehicle parade to provide holiday cheer for patients and staff.

WHEN: Saturday, December 23, 2022, at 4:45 p.m.

WHO: The Best of Proviso Township Organization. Organizers expect 50 to 75 vehicles, including fire trucks and police cars. Organizers will gather at 4:30 pm in the parking lot of the John J. Madden Mental Health Center, 1200 S. 1st Ave, Maywood, IL to decorate their vehicles. Confirmed officials include: Mayor Katrina Thompson, Village of Broadview; Mayor Andre Harvey, Village of Bellwood; Mayor Nathaniel G. Booker, Village of Maywood; Victoria Vann, Trustee, Village of Westchester; Miguel Jones, Trustee, Village of Maywood; Aaron Peppers, Trustee, Village of Maywood; Ray Williams, Trustee, Village of Maywood; Janel Moreland, Clerk, Village of Bellwood. 

WHERE:

Loyola University Medical Center

2160 S. 1st Ave. Maywood, IL

The caravan will travel along the frontage road in front of the hospital

Media should enter at Entrance 1 off of Roosevelt Road, south of the John J. Madden Mental Health Center. Follow the frontage road south to 2nd street where the caravan will begin. The parade will travel in front of the hospital. Media can park in the North Lot next to the John J. Madden Mental Health Center.

 

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About Loyola Medicine

Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from more than 1,500 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. Loyola is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, a certified comprehensive stroke center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Established in 1961, Gottlieb is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park with the Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research Facility at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center. MacNeal is a 374-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced medical, surgical and psychiatric services, acute rehabilitation, an inpatient skilled nursing facility and a 68-bed behavioral health program and community clinics. 

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About Trinity Health

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 121,000 colleagues and nearly 36,500 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 27 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 101 hospitals, 126 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 136 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2023, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.5 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedInFacebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).