Health & Fitness
Come Join Good Shepherd’s Flock at the Barrington Relay for Life!
Join Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital's Shepherd's Flock team, June 10 Barrington Relay for Life. From 6 p.m. June 10 to 6 a.m. June 11, at Barrington HS Stadium, 616 W. Main St., Barrington.
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital is sponsoring the Shepherd’s Flock team for the Barrington Relay for Life event on June 10. The team is raising money to fight cancer and will be walking all night to support the American Cancer Society. The event will run from 6 p.m. June 10 until 6 a.m. June 11 at Barrington High School Stadium, 616 W Main St., Barrington, Ill.
This year, the Barrington Relay’s theme is Barrington’s Biggest Birthday Party and organizers are attempting to set a world record by gathering 15,000 cupcakes into a 7-foot-tall tower.
In the time leading up to the relay, Good Shepherd has hosted multiple fundraising events. One of the most popular among the staff is an event called “PolypMan,” where members of the Good Shepherd staff donate money to vote for an executive or physician. The winner spends a day at the hospital dressed as PolypMan, a superhero dedicated to fighting cancer.
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Shepherd’s Flock team captain Kathy Hendrix noted the positive impact the relay has on Good Shepherd staff and those personally touched by cancer.
“The staff members get to see their patients, see how well they’re doing and get to celebrate with them,” she said. “It’s brought so many different people together.”
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The American Cancer Society held its first Relay for Life event in 1985. Since then, the event has expanded to more than 5,000 sites and has raised $3.86 billion to fund cancer research, prevention and treatment. The Barrington Relay is one of more than 200 Relay events in Illinois and has registered more than 800 participants and 120 teams this year. Good Shepherd and the Shepherd’s Flock team have participated for over a decade and raise thousands of dollars each year.
For more information about the Barrington Relay for Life event, visit http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=30528.
Join the Shepherd’s Flock team or donate at http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=30528&team_id=839778.
About Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington is a medical care facility with about 700 physicians representing 45 medical specialties. Highly skilled physicians and clinical professionals provide a comprehensive range of services including advanced surgical procedures. For 30 years, Good Shepherd Hospital has been providing its patients and communities with quality, compassionate health care, wellness programs, and community education. It is also a leader in delivering the most advanced technologies and techniques available in the northwest suburbs. Good Shepherd is part of Advocate Health Care, one of the top 10 health care systems in the country and the largest health care delivery system in Illinois.
Good Shepherd Hospital is a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, one of six Illinois hospitals and one of 66 hospitals recognized nationally with the prestigious award. It is also the first hospital in Illinois to offer SAVI brachytherapy (pinpointed radiation) for the treatment of breast cancer and one of the few regional sites to provide image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT).
For more about Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital: www.advocatehealth.com/gshp.
