October 6 – 12 is National PA Week and this year it is especially significant as it falls during a global pandemic. PAs have stepped up in major ways, including serving on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response. Whatever your specialty or setting, you have put your health at risk every day to care for your patients.

During this challenging time, PAs have not only proven themselves as flexible, adaptable, and collaborative – but also ESSENTIAL. Essential to healthcare. Essential to patients.

Riverside Healthcare has eight PAs:
Davina Betts, PA-C
Karim Bouferrache, PA-C
Kyle Denny, PA-C
Andrew Donofrio, PA-C
Carly Kaminke, PA-C
Rita Kuseliauskas, PA-C
Karie Prokop, PA-C
Lori Williams, PA-C

In honor of the white oak trees that previously grew on the land beneath Riverside Medical Center, we have created an employee/RMG provider contest called TREE-Mendous (replaces previous Brightest Star contest).

TREE-Mendous is the highest recognition we can grant any Riverside employees/providers with recognition and prizes focused on our consistently best of the best providers and staff from all departments/areas of our entire health system.

Eligible providers and employees are those who rise high each day, consistently living in words and actions the behaviors that create remarkable journeys for coworkers and patients/residents and in good standing according to Human Resources records.

Tree-mendous staff branch out as role models to us all—living our keywords and Professional Standards of Behavior with every patient and coworker, striving for caring, positive connections with every person ALWAYS.

We have had several nominations come in for our Tree-Mendous staff here at Riverside. Their stories are described in the attachment.

The Primary Care Bourbonnais office decorated early for one day of Christmas on Bella Costanza’s last day with us! Bella, Care Tech for Dena Reddick, is leaving Riverside to serve with AmeriCorps. She requested Christmas with our office family before she left.

We surprised her on Friday (her last day) by decorating our nurses station for Christmas and with delicious Christmas bundt cakes made by Nicole Cote at our front desk. Before she was Dena’s Care Tech, she was a tech on the Mental Health Unit. We are excited to hear from her as she uses her skills learned during her time at Riverside to serve our country.

Riverside’s Tree-Mendous Staff

In honor of the white oak trees that previously grew on the land beneath Riverside Medical Center, we have created an employee/RMG provider contest called TREE-Mendous (replaces previous Brightest Star contest).

TREE-Mendous is the highest recognition we can grant any Riverside employees/providers with recognition and prizes focused on our consistently best of the best providers and staff from all departments/areas of our entire health system.

Eligible providers and employees are those who rise high each day, consistently living in words and actions the behaviors that create remarkable journeys for coworkers and patients/residents and in good standing according to Human Resources records.

Tree-mendous staff branch out as role models to us all—living our keywords and Professional Standards of Behavior with every patient and coworker, striving for caring, positive connections with every person ALWAYS.

We have had several nominations come in for our Tree-Mendous staff here at Riverside. Their stories are described in the attachment.