September 16, 2009 - For Immediate Release
Contact: Perry Drake
Media Relations
Anne Dillon
Director, Media Relations

(708) 216-8232

 
TENNIS TOURNAMENT TO RAISE FUNDS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH AND THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEAR LOYOLA 
Event to take place at Oak Park Tennis Center in River Forest 
MAYWOOD -- Funding for pediatric research to enhance clinical care and education and lend support to families struggling with ill children is solely needed.

To help raise funds, Loyola University Health System will host the Loyola Tennis Tournament for Pediatric Research and The Ronald McDonald House Near Loyola.

The event will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 26 at the Oak Park Tennis Center, 544 N. Harlem Ave.,

River Forest. It will include a continental breakfast, lunch and T-shirts. Tennis balls will be provided. All donations are welcome. Proceeds will go to pediatric research and The Ronald McDonald House.

Costs are $30 for students and graduates of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and $50 for non-students, family, friends and others.

For more information or to register, contact Chris Eggerding at (708) 327-9128 or e-mail ceggerd@lumc.edu.

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Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, Loyola University Health System is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and 28 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald� Childrens Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus in Melrose Park includes the 264-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center.
 
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