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Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) is the social service arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)'s three Illinois synods. [1] It is headquartered in Des Plaines IL. [2] [3] [4] LSSI started in 1867 [1] as an orphanage for children who lost their parents in the cholera epidemic. [5] [6]
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (ALGH) is a 645-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois. Founded in 1897, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital is the sixth largest hospital in the Chicago area, and it operates a Level I trauma center .
Lutheran Services in America is the national office of a network of 300 Lutheran health and human services organizations across the United States.Headquartered in Washington, DC, Lutheran Services in America amplifies the voice of its $23 billion network to aid community leaders and advance policies and practices that improve the lives of people and communities.
Lee graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1992, and is an ordained pastor of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). As of 2023, he was retired (referred to within LCMS as being on "emeritus status"). [2] In 2020, Lee was vacancy pastor for the Living Word Lutheran Church in Orland Park, Illinois. [3]
As of 2023, it shares a campus with the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and Catholic Theological Union, in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. A letter of intent was signed on May 5, 2022, to sell the formerly shared campus with the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago to the University of Chicago .
Each year, the hospital provides services for 18,000 inpatients, more than 152,000 outpatients and 41,000 emergency patients. [2] Approximately 300 physicians are trained each year through its affiliations with the University of Illinois College of Medicine, the Chicago Medical School and the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine." [6] [7]
AbleLight, formerly known as Bethesda Lutheran Communities, is a non-profit human service organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through faith-based programs. Bethesda, a 501(c)3 non-profit, provides supports and services for more than 2,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their ...
Rehabilitation is a relatively new medical specialty, becoming certified as such in 1947. [6] Immediately following World War II, which had a significant impact on the specialty of rehabilitation, General Omar Bradley, the head the Veterans Administration, recruited Dr. Paul Magnuson, [7] a U.S. Army orthopaedic surgeon, who created the infrastructure for the VA to provide rehabilitation for ...