Marianjoy Rehab Hospital

Description

About Us
The new Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital is a 120bed hospital with all private rooms in Wheaton Illinois dedicated to the delivery of physical medicine and rehabilitation

Founded in 1972 by the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters Marianjoy has a network of inpatient subacute and outpatient sites and physician clinics throughout the greater Chicago area

Throughout this network Marianjoy provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services including programs that assist patients with community reentry such as driver rehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation

Marianjoy is a member of Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare which owns and operates more than 100 health and shelter service organizations in Colorado Illinois Iowa and Wisconsin

Our Mission
Marianjoy is committed to living out the healing ministry of Jesus by providing exceptional and compassionate healthcare service that promotes the dignity and well being of the people we serve

Our Vision
Marianjoy will be recognized in each community we serve for superior and compassionate patient service clinical excellence as the health care employer of choice and the preferred partner of physicians

Our Values
Respect
We value each person as sacred created in the image and likeness of God which gives worth and meaning to each persons life

Integrity
We value honesty and words and actions that build trust

Development
We value personal and professional growth that combines the physical emotional spiritual and relational aspects of life and work

Excellence
We value superior performance in our work and service

Stewardship
We value our responsibility to use human financial and natural resources entrusted to us for the common good with special concern for those who are poor

History

Our History
Sister Virginia Mary Barta was the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters Provincial or head of the province when the idea of Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital came to be in the late 1960searly 1970s The concept of creating a rehabilitation hospital came to the Sisters during a time of great cultural change in the late 1960s

Marianjoy was built from 1968 to 1970 designed as an extended care facility for the Sisters but the sisters soon realized it was much bigger than they needed They then decided to offer extended care to the community as well

Even after opening up the facility to the community the sisters felt that something was missing In 1971 several physicians from the local acute care hospital met with the Sisters to ask them to consider changing Marianjoy into a physical rehabilitation hospital At the time there were only two rehabilitation hospitals in Illinois and a few small rehab units in acute care hospitals but none in the western suburbs of Chicago

Sister Mary Thomas Kolba took over as the Provincial in 1972 and led the task of getting the new rehabilitation hospital up and running Others who made a contribution to the hospitals beginnings included Sister Barbara DeWindt an experienced hospital administrator and Dr Roger Pesch the hospitals first medical director

The name Marianjoy came about as a result of the blending of the Marian tradition referring to the Sisters being the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the joy reflecting not only the philosophy of St Francis but also the joy felt throughout the religious community in offering this new service