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RURAL HEALTHCARE
Retired CEO Honored As Rural Health Hero
Two years after retiring as
the President and CEO of KSB
Hospital, Darryl Vandervort is still
being remembered by healthcare
professionals both in Illinois and
around the country.
In late November, Vandervort was
named an Illinois Rural Health Hero
by the National Center for Rural
Health Professions (NCRHP). He
was honored for his tireless work as an
advocate for rural health in Illinois,
specifically in the area of rural health
professions training.
“I am humbled by this honor, but it
really isn’t about me,” said Vandervort,
who was a KSB employee for 28 years,
23 as president and CEO. “We had a
great management team in place and
our employees are tremendous. There
are none better anywhere.
“When we say, it’s the people of
KSB, it really is. I’ve said it before that
no one person has all the answers. I
have always had good people to work
with.”
Vandervort was honored at a
reception in Rockford in conjunction
with National Rural Health Day.
During the reception, current
President and CEO Dave Schreiner
presented the retired CEO with a
banner signed by KSB employees.
The banner was displayed in the
KSB Cafeteria for a week to give
employees an opportunity to write
messages to Vandervort.
“Darryl was our leader, our mentor
and our friend,” Schreiner said. “He
was a great role model and showed me
what it was like to be a great CEO. He
has always believed in rural health and
in preparing future professionals to
serve in hospitals like KSB.”
Under Vandervort’s direction, KSB
Hospital in 1996 became one of the
first collaborating hospitals for the
Rural Medical Education (RMED)
Program. It continues to accept
students for their four-month rural
health immersion experience each
year.
Vandervort has served as a
member of RMED’s Recruitment
and Retention Committee, a
Retired President/CEO Darryl Vandervort
volunteer group made up of rural
health professionals and community
members from various geographic
locations in Illinois that assists the
program in selecting pre-medical
students for entrance into RMED.
KSB, under Vandervort’s leadership,
partnered with NCRHP to start
a rural inter-professional summer
internship for health professions
students and a regional site for the
Illinois Area Health Education Center
(AHEC) program.
In 2004, the hospital and the
University Of Illinois College Of
Medicine at Rockford established a
progressive, 3-year rural residency
training track for family medicine
physicians.
Throughout his tenure, Vandervort
led KSB Hospital in many roles
and was visible in the hospital and
community for his leadership.
“The KSB trustees, administration,
physicians and staff are very proud
that our retired CEO received this
recognition for the impact he has had
on the rural health workforce,” Board
of Directors Chairperson Bill LeFevre
said.
“Congratulations, Darryl, and
thank you for once again representing
KSB Hospital in a most positive and
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honorable manner.”
The reception in Vandervort’s honor
was held in the lobby of the University
Of Illinois College Of Medicine in
Rockford. The event also featured a
“This is Rural Health” photo contest,
viewing of NCRHP’s rural health
video, picture taking by the tractor,
“meet and greets” with current rural
medicine and pharmacy students and
displays of past community projects by
RMED students.
RMED this year celebrated its
20th year of educating and training
physicians for primary care practice in
rural communities. Like many states,
Illinois suffers from long-standing
shortages of many types of medical
personnel in rural communities. For
example, 68 of 83 rural counties in the
state do not have enough primary care
doctors, including internal medicine,
family medicine and pediatrics.
About 500 doctors in rural locations
are near retirement age. To create a
pipeline of physicians to fill those
positions, RMED recruits between 15
and 20 students annually who grew up
in rural Illinois and plan to pursue a
career in rural primary care medicine.
Since its inception, RMED has not
only trained rural physicians but also
has facilitated the return of young
doctors to rural communities. Some
243 students – 187 in practice and 53
in primary care physicians – have gone
on to serve in Illinois.
Candidates considering the program
participate in a dual application
process, applying to both the
University of Illinois COM and
RMED. In addition to the regular
medical school curriculum, RMED
students participate in monthly
rural-focused sessions or activities.
During their fourth year, RMED
students complete a four-month
primary care clinical rotation in a rural
Illinois community and complete a
community-oriented primary care
project within that same community.
Some 35 rural physician/educators
on staff at 25 hospitals in Illinois
host RMED students for this rural
immersion experience.
It’s almost as if it was in the DNA for Dr. Joseph Welty to
become a family medicine doctor.
Then, after making the commitment to pursue that
profession nearly 40 years ago, Welty was destined to rise to the
top, as he has done by being named Illinois Family Physician of
the Year by the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP).
Welty got his first exposure to the medical world through his
mother, who was a nurse in his native Amboy for Dr. Wayne
Spenader.
As a teenager, Joe worked part-time in the office washing
windows, emptying trash cans and cleaning the waiting area.
Because Dr. Spenader’s practice covered three different towns,
Welty’s mom often functioned like our current-day nurse
practitioner.
“I witnessed the tremendous impact family medicine can
have on the lives we care for and about,” Welty said. “During
my high school years, I formulated a dream, and subsequently a
plan, to become a family physician.
“With the incredible support of innumerable people along
the way, I continue to live that dream today.”
Welty has been practicing family medicine for 28 years, all
of it in Dixon, since graduating from the University of Illinois
College of Medicine and completing a residency at MacNeal
Memorial Hospital in Berwyn, IL.
Today, nearly three decades later, Welty is paying it forward
as a key participant in KSB’s Rural Training Track (RTT)
Family Medicine Residency program.
From day one, he has been the advisor to third-year resident
Dr. Emilee Bocker, who nominated Welty for the Family
Physician of the Year award. And this past school year, Welty
was voted Faculty Physician of the Year by all of the residents in
the RTT program.
Bocker has known her mentor for about two years, she said,
and thought he was the epitome of what the award represents.
“I’m just so happy that he won,” she said. “I was so excited
for him, and it wasn’t really surprising because I thought he was
very deserving.”
Welty has made an impact on Bocker and the other residents
ever since she first met him in July 2011. He has taken the time
to listen and help her and other residents, employing the same
personal approach he takes with his patients.
“I have a number of four-generation families,” Welty
said. “I’ve taken care of what are now great-grandparents,
grandparents, parents and children. It’s very rewarding; it really
is. Again, I’m very honored and humbled people think highly
enough to give me that privilege.”
Dr. Tim Appenheimer, the first director of the Rural Training
Track residency program and now KSB’s Chief Medical Officer,
has known Welty since he arrived in Dixon nearly 30 years ago.
They have served together in numerous teaching, practice
and leadership roles, and Appenheimer holds the utmost
respect for his colleague.
“During his career here in Dixon, Joe has quietly and steadily
earned the respect of patients, colleagues and administrators,”
Appenheimer said. “There certainly is no one more deserving of
this award than Joe.
“He lives his straightforward, personal approach each and
Joseph Welty, M.D. (right), accepts the Illinois Family Physician of
the Year Award from Dr. Edward Blumen, president of the IAFP.
every day and with each of his patients.”
As dedicated as Welty is to his practice, his patients and
to the young physicians he is helping to mold, he’s just as
dedicated to the community and to his personal passion of
running.
For the last 15 years, Welty has been a team physician for the
Newman Comets football program. His many games on the
sidelines have included three state championships, the most
recent one coming just three weeks ago at NIU in DeKalb.
Welty has been a lifelong runner and is passionate about
competing in his hometown Reagan Run every year during the
Petunia Festival.
His passion also has led to his participation in 10 marathons,
including four Boston Marathons.
In fact, this past April, Welty had just completed the Boston
Marathon and was only blocks from the finish line when the
terrorist explosions rocked the area.
Welty is the second KSB doctor in the past four years to
win the Illinois Family Physician of the Year award. Dr. Risha
Raven, then a doctor at the Polo clinic and now a full-time
faculty member with the residency program, won the award in
2009.
Dave Schreiner, KSB’s President and CEO, said KSB and the
community are very fortunate to have physicians like Welty on
staff.
“The communities that KSB Hospital serves are better for
his presence and his unwavering dedication to those he cares
for,” Schreiner said. “His passion for what he does and the
compassion and caring he shows his patients are unmatched.
“Dr. Welty also is a role model not only for our young
residents but for all of us at KSB. There is no finer
representative of our organization than Dr. Welty, and
we are all very proud that he has been recognized like
this.”
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FAMILY MEDICINE
SUMMER ‘09
Joseph Welty Named Illinois Family Physician Of Year
REHAB SERVICES
SUMMER ‘09
Anti-Gravity Treadmill Proves Life-Altering
Lewie Frye works out on the AlterG with Physical Therapist Brooke Smith.
Ever wonder what sensation astronauts feel
when they float through space weightless and
without the pull of gravity?
You can experience just that sort of thing
with the new AlterG Antigravity Treadmill
that’s now operational in KSB Hospital’s
Rehab Services Department in Commerce
Towers.
The treadmill is designed to help the
rehabilitation process for patients recovering
from major surgery or who are suffering
from pain in their legs and joints. However,
even healthy athletes can reap the benefits of
working out on the AlterG.
“It takes away up to 80% of a person’s body
weight in specific increments,” Director of
Rehab Services Lori Jarrett explained. “So a
person who is experiencing pain in their leg or
joints can walk without all the weight-bearing
on their body.
“For athletes, it allows them to increase
their training without putting all of the wear
and tear on their body. It has many uses for
both patients and healthy people.”
The technology of the AlterG was first
designed by engineers at NASA, so it’s not
surprising that the principles and effects are
similar to the weightlessness experienced by
astronauts.
Users step into a plastic-encased chamber
that draws air out to create a vacuum. A
comfortable and uniform lifting force is then
introduced into the chamber that removes
as much body weight as you desire up to a
maximum of 80%.
“One of the main purposes of the Alter G
is to allow the patient to ambulate with less
body force or weight than normal,” Physical
Therapy Supervisor Mike Sarno said.
“If the patient has hip pain or leg pain, it
allows them to walk on a treadmill without
all that body weight being there. It allows us
to walk our patients who have some type of
lower extremity restriction.
“For instance, maybe the doctor states
that the patient can only put 50 pounds of
weight on their legs. Before the Alter G, we
did not have a precise way of doing this in our
department.”
among the patients who are perfect
candidates to rehab on the AlterG are those
who are overweight and can only work out by
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reducing body-weight stress, those who have
had spinal cord injuries, those who have had
joint replacement surgery or even those who
have had an amputation.
Patient Lewie Frye falls into the latter
category. He had an amputation of his leg in
the spring, and by the end of the summer he
was walking on the AlterG treadmill.
“I’ve been doing work conditioning therapy
for a couple of months on the antigravity
treadmill,” Frye said. “It takes weight off my
hips and knees and allows me to walk much
easier.
“This helps me make sure I am walking
correctly and the PT can make adjustments
to my gait. It’s allowed me to rehab much
sooner. I can bear full weight now when I
walk, but initially it was beneficial to remove
some of the weight when I was on the
AlterG.”
Monitoring a patient’s gait is aided by three
cameras built into the AlterG that show a
front view and both side views.
“There are three cameras, so we can get left,
right and oblique views,” Jarrett said. “The
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KSB Hospital’s Community Wellness Department has
had a ton of influence on local residents attempting to lose
weight.
Or, more accurately, two tons, which is how much weight
people have dropped in 2013 thanks to KSB’s Operation
Move To Win program. The second installment of the
weight-loss program concluded just before Thanksgiving,
and 426 people from 16 different companies lost a total of
1,488 pounds.
For the first year of the program, 943 participants
dropped 4,408 pounds.
“Operation Move To Win is a weight-loss program,
but it’s much more than that,” Community Wellness
Coordinator Chris Scheffler said. “It’s really about
promoting lifestyle change so that the people who lose
weight can sustain it and keep it off.
“We want participants to alter the way they look at eating
and combine it with exercise and healthy choices. The goal
is to move people to commit to these changes, leading to a
much healthier lifestyle for them.”
The winning company for the fall Operation Move To
Win program was UPM Raflatac of Dixon. Its employees
lost 151 pounds, or 3.6% of their body weight, from
August through November. The company won $319 for its
designated charity, which was Toys for Tots.
Individual weight-loss champions were Janice Borum of
Anchor Coupling in the female category and Wally Garza
of the Illinois Department of Transportation in the male
division.
Janice lost 36.6 pounds, or 16.07% of her total body
weight, while Wally dropped 45.2 pounds, or 19.47% of
his body weight. Each received $1,597.50 for winning
their division.
Second and third place in the female division were Leith
Hammond of KSB Hospital and Lisa Talbott of UPM
Raflatac, respectively. Leith lost 21 pounds, or 14.25% of
her body weight, while Lisa lost 24 pounds, or 12.96% of
her body weight. Leith won $958.50 and Lisa $319.50.
In the male division, Chad Hammer of Raynor
Manufacturing was second and Jack Skrogstad of Team
Lee County third. Chad lost 32.4 pounds, 13.44% of his
body weight, and received $958.50 while Jack dropped
28.8 pounds, or 12.53% of his body weight, and received
$319.50.
“We had a great group of participants this time, and the
employers were very supportive of their employees’ efforts,”
Scheffler said. “They allowed us to come onsite for weighins and to present nutrition, exercise and eating tips.
“One of the biggest benefits of this program is giving the
participants access to our wellness dietitian, Carrie Grobe,
every month. Carrie is very motivational and provides a
tremendous amount of knowledge and resources to help
them set and meet their goals.”
Some of the top tips Carrie offers to those attempting to
lose weight include:
• Eat one ounce of almonds in the afternoon to
sustain you until dinner;
• If you could exercise just 10 minutes a day, you
will see results and feel better; and
• You can have pizza, just don’t eat the whole pie;
you can have a dessert, just not the whole pan.
A special award presented during a luncheon to recognize
the winners and honor all participants was the Most
Dynamic Lifestyle Improvement Award. Chris Ekquist, a
supervisor in KSB’s Dietary Department, received the Most
Dynamic Lifestyle Improvement Award after losing 39.6
pounds, or 11.59% of her body weight.
Chris was one of 16 participants from eight companies
nominated for the Most Dynamic Lifestyle Improvement
Award.
The third 12-week installment of Operation Move To
Win began the first week in January and runs through April
2014.
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Janice Borum (center) receives her first-place check from Community Wellness Coordinator Chris Scheffler (right) and Wellness Dietitian Carrie Grobe.
Wally Garza was the first-place contesstant in the male division of Operation
Move To Win. UPM Raflatac was the winning company.
COMMUNITY WELLNESS
Weight-Loss Program Completes Successful 1st Year
PHYSICIAN SERVICES
SUMMER ‘09
Tips To Help Parents Navigate Winter With Their Children
As Northern Illinois rapidly entered the
deep freeze in mid-December, it brings to
mind many issues that children face in the
winter months.
Among those are contending with the
flu and other infections, the impact cold
weather can have on asthma, and dressing
warmly and safely for outdoor activities.
The newest member of KSB Hospital’s
staff of family medicine physicians is
pediatrician Dr. Pratip Nag.
Dr. Nag, who was a leading faculty
member and practitioner at Texas
Children’s Hospital in Houston before
joining KSB this fall, has some tips for
parents to help them guide their children
through a Midwestern winter.
Question: Should my child receive a flu
vaccination?
Dr. Nag: Flu vaccines are very important
for all children. All children over the age
of six months should get a flu vaccination
every year unless they are allergic to eggs,
the primary ingredient in the vaccine.
Children who are attending school are
definitely at high risk of picking up the
flu. And when they come down with the
flu, they can’t go back to school for one
or 1-1/2 weeks sometimes. That’s a lot of
school for them to miss.
Some children, especially those who
have asthma or other lung conditions or
chonric diseases, will suffer even more from
the flu. So it’s very important to get a flu
vaccination.
Question: How do I prevent my
children from getting other infections?
Dr. Nag: We know that when the
temperature gets cold outside, there are
more viruses that come out. When there
are more viruses floating around in schools
and other public places like grocery stores
or libraries, there’s a higher probability of a
child getting sick. People normally believe
that exposure to the cold makes you sick,
but that is not true. It’s just that there are
more viruses out when the temperature is
cold.
The majority of infections we actually
give to ourselves. We do this when we
don’t wash our hands before touching our
nose or our mouth or our eyes. We touch
our face all the time without washing our
hands with something simple like Purell.
If we can teach our kids to constantly
work on washing their hands instead of
Pediatrician Pratip Nag, M.D.
concentrating so much on them wearing
heavy coats, we will be giving them the
right message.
So, yes, make sure they are bundled up
against the cold with coats buttoned or
zipped and wearing hats, gloves and scarves.
But the far more important thing to do in
the winter is to have children wash their
hands a lot with soap and warm water or
hand gel before touching any part of their
face.
Question: Why do children with asthma
have more problems in the winter?
Dr. Nag: As I mentioned before, during
the winter there are more viral infections
out and kids can have asthma problems
when a viral infection gets in their lungs.
So in addition to making sure they are
washing their hands a lot, kids with asthma
also should be taking their preventative
medicine every single day. This helps
protect them from having an asthma attack
and keeps their airways open and not
constricted.
It’s also important to make sure your
child has a rescue inhaler at each of
the places they are at during the day, at
home, at school, at day care – and clear
instructions from the physician.
Kids with asthma should always get their
flu shots once a year. The flu has a much
worse effect on kids who have asthma. And
make sure a child with asthma sees their
physician every six months to make sure
the asthma is under control.
Question: What should a child do when
playing outside?
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Dr. Nag: Children in the Midwest spend
a good deal of time outdoors during the
winter. Be sure to keep them protected from
the cold and properly dressed for outdoor
activities. It’s important that children have
scarves covering their mouth and nose to
warm the air before it enters a child’s lungs.
It’s also important to keep body heat in by
wearing hats, gloves and warm boots with
their coats.
Finally, make sure your kids wear
proper protective gear when participating
in outdoor activities like ice skating and
sledding. This includes helmets and elbow
and knee pads. And never allow your child
to play on a lake or pond unless you’re
absolutely sure it’s frozen solid and the ice is
at least six inches thick.
Dr. Nag will begin a Facebook feature in
early 2014 in which he will offer weekly tips
to parents on how to keep their children
healthy and successful in school. Watch for
them on KSB Hospital’s Facebook page.
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patient and the therapist can monitor the
gait and get additional feedback from the
video.”
Sarno said there is a lot of flexibility in
what Rehab Services staff members are
able to do with a patient on the Alter G.
He pointed to Frye on the machine.
“He’s walking at 70% of body weight
right now,” Sarno explained. “We can
take it down to as low as 20%, which is
where we started with him. We can toggle
back and forth between the three cameras
as he’s walking.”
Approximately two dozen patients and
a handful of high school athletes have
used the AlterG Antigravity Treadmill so
far.
Rehab Services is selling punch cards
so that any member of the community
may use the AlterG. The price is $100
for eight 30-minute sessions or $200 for
unlimited 30-minute sessions in a onemonth period.
“A lot of places charge by the minute,
so this is a pretty good deal,” Jarrett
added. “The AlterG is a machine that’s
applicable to multiple populations of
patients. We are getting more and more
patients using it.
What began as a somewhat routine
knee replacement surgery turned into
something much more for KSB Hospital patient Tom Kitson.
Kitson, one of the original “students”
in the KSB Joint Academy, successfully
underwent knee replacement surgery
the first week in May. What followed,
however, was anything but routine
when Kitson suffered a heart attack
while recovering from the surgery.
“My leg was in the thing to exercise
it and I was having a little indigestion,”
Kitson explained. “I asked for Zantac,
but it wasn’t going away, so then I
asked for a nitro pill. The nurse was
wonderful and followed all of the
protocol for a heart attack.
“She called the cardiologist on call
and within minutes I had an X-ray. Dr.
El Bzour came running in my room
and said I was having a heart attack,
his team was on the way and they were
going to take me to the cath lab.
“They were all very professional
but at the same time very caring and
comforting. I still get very emotional
about it. I’m tickled to death to be here
today and thank God I’m alive. It’s all
because of them.”
Kitson said he now totally
understands the hospital’s recent
marketing slogan, “it’s the people of
KSB.” Even before suffering his heart
attack, the experience of going through
the Joint Academy was a positive one.
For years he had been bothered by
a bad left knee to the point where the
pain was impacting his life.
“My left knee was bothering me so
bad I could no longer stand on it,”
Kitson said. “Now I can walk on it as
well as stand on it. This is something I
should have had done a long time ago.”
Kitson was a member of the first class
of patients to enter the Joint Academy,
which is designed to help guide people
through the process of having a knee or
hip replacement procedure.
A classroom session is held to
explain every step of the process and
allow patients an opportunity to ask
questions before they undergo their
surgery.
“I learned a lot from it,” Kitson said.
“For instance, my wife thought she
was just going to drop me off for the
Tom Kitson of Dixon films a testimonial outside KSB Hospital. His message was
played for employees at their annual meeting in December.
surgery and come back after it was over
and pick me up. We didn’t realize I
needed to spend a couple of days in the
hospital.”
Surgical Coordinator Martha Dailey,
RN, leads each Joint Academy class,
at which patients also receive a binder
of information. Included are what to
expect during the surgery, recovery,
how to carry out normal activities of
daily living and pre- and post-surgery
exercises.
Kitson said he learned that he didn’t
know a lot of what to expect in having
his knee replaced.
“You know to ask questions, but it’s
not the right questions,” he said. “Now
I know what to expect and I can tell
other people who are going to have the
surgery.
“A surgical nurse was there and the
ladies from physical therapy were there.
It was a very complete presentation and
I felt like I was prepared to have the
surgery after it was done.”
Dr. Stephen Gabriel performed
the knee replacement surgery on
Kitson. The other members of KSB’s
orthopedic surgical team include Drs.
Tyler Gunderson and Dr. Tommy
Hernandez.
Kitson said he would recommend
anyone considering joint replacement
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surgery to consider becoming a student
at KSB’s Joint Academy.
“It seemed pretty routine,” he said.
“I’ve been told it’s major surgery, but
it didn’t seem that way to me. They
had me well prepared. This is the first
surgery I’ve ever had.
“My knee had been bothering me so
bad and now I have a new one that I
can trust.”
Kitson also can trust the staff at KSB
Hospital.
Whether it was the Joint Academy
experience and his knee replacement
surgery or the treatment he received
during and after his heart attack, Kitson
said the care he received at KSB was
second to none. And that was because
of the employees.
“It may be their job, but it’s their
passion for it that drives them to do
what they do,” he added. “It’s a culture
of passion that runs through KSB. It
shows everywhere; the parking lot is
clean, the building is nice, the flowers
and grounds are all well-groomed.
“I can’t thank the people of KSB
enough for what they did for me and
for the care I received.”ad little idea that
her career path would take the
same course as her older brother,
who is a podiatric physician in
the Chicago area.
But today, Jacobsen is one of
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Board Of Directors Member Retires After 31 Years
Donna Hoyle’s eyes welled with tears
as fellow members of the KSB Hospital
Board of Directors recently gathered
at the main entrance to bid her a fond
farewell.
Hoyle, one of the longest serving
members of the KSB board, retired after
31 years of service on Jan. 1. In her
honor, the rest of the Board of Directors
presented her with an engraved
granite bench that now sits outside the
hospital’s main entryway.
She also received a wooden rocking
chair that Hoyle immediately proceeded
to donate to KSB’s The Birth Place so
mothers can rock their newborns.
“The thing I admire and love most
about Donna is that her focus is always
on our patients and our employees,”
President and CEO Dave Schreiner
said. “She is one of the warmest people
I know.
“From all of us at KSB, I want to
thank Donna for all of her time and
energy devoted to serving KSB. We will
miss Donna.”
As CEO of Hoyle Road Equipment
Company, Hoyle brought many years of
business acumen to the board.
“In her own subtle way, Donna
would always impact important
board decisions,” Board of Directors
Chairperson Bill LeFevre said. “Donna
is very supportive of all hospital
healthcare providers and the care given
to our patients.
“Donna and her 31 years of
committed service to KSB will be
missed.”
The KSB Board of Directors placed a granite bench outside the hospital’s main entrance in honor of long-time board member Donna Hoyle, who retired on Jan. 1.
Hoyle’s dedication in serving in
the unpaid, volunteer board position
extended to being an officeholder. She
was Chairperson in 2005-06, Vice
Chairperson in 2003-04 and also has
held the offices of Secretary Pro-Tem,
Treasurer and Past Chairperson.
Hoyle is not going away entirely,
though, Schreiner reminded. She will
continue to represent KSB on the Board
of Directors of the Northern Illinois
healthy. happy. here.
Cancer Treatment Center.
“I am personally thrilled that she
will continue as a board member of the
Northern Illinois Cancer Treatment
Center,” LeFevre concurred. “The KSB
Hospital Board of Directors and Dixon
community thank you, Donna, for a
job well done.”
Hoyle’s replacement to the KSB
Board of Directors will be announced
in January.