News & events from local hospitals

Posted September 19, 2010 11:00 pm

News and events from hospitals in our area:

• For the second time, Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights has achieved Magnet status, a four-year designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Magnet status, earned by just 6 percent of all U.S. hospitals, is considered the gold standard.

• A new Northwestern University study shows women with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene live longer and nearly eliminate their risk of cancer by having prophylactic surgeries to remove their ovaries and fallopian tubes or their breasts in a mastectomy. About 10 percent to 20 percent of breast and ovarian cancers are due to BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, the study found. The results were published in the Sept. 1 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

• Lombard-based Lexington Health Care and its family of companies that include 10 Lexington Health Care Centers, the Lexington Square Senior Residences, and Merit Home Health, Hospice and Private Duty Services have been integrated into the new Lexington Health Network.

• Have a hospital item you'd like included? E-mail your hospital news to health@dailyhearld.com.

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