Medical Communications

A Winter Solstice Story

2011-12-22T16:22:00.001-08:00

Illinois Victim of Crimes Claim No.12CV1740, Mr. Roberto Hung, Lombard Resident Homeowner, Taxpayer, Employee

2011-12-11T15:48:00.000-08:00

Gardenia C. Hung Appeals The Denial of Application for Financial Assistance on legal grounds for remedy and justice under the Constitution of the State of Illinois, Article I, Bill of Rights, Section 8.1 for Crime Victims’ Rights, Section 12 Right To Remedy and Justice with the National Victims’Constitutional Amendment for Illinois Enforceable Victims’ Rights
Act pleading for Illinois Crime Victims Compensation for Lombard Victim of Crimes Mr. Roberto Hung Mustelier, Juris Doctor, Claim No.12CV1740, Deceased Lombard resident homeowner, taxpayer, U.S. citizen at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard in York Township, Du Page County, Illinois 60148-3028 USA. Mr. Roberto Hung was throttled by Respiratory Therapist Ben Aguilar at Vencor Northlake Hospital under the care of Dr. Grodzin, Dr. Raied Abdullah, and other physicians, nurses, and staff on June 18, 1998.
Northlake Police Department Investigation Complaint No. 98-1392 filed by Michael Brletich, Officer No. 140, Sargent D. DiIulio on June 18, 1998. The Autopsy was performed and certified by Shaku Teas, M.D., Forensic Pathologist, 1123 Ashland, River Forest Illinois 60305, Tel:
708-366-4389. Brust Funeral Home Lombard. I am requesting an Investigation Surrounding the Medical Murder of Mr. Roberto Hung Mustelier who was a Lombard Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes in the State of Illinois, USA.
Honorable Chief Justice Robert J. Sprague, State of Illinois Court of Claims:
My name is Gardenia C. Hung, eldest daughter of Mr. Roberto Hung Mustelier, Juris Doctor, deceased Lombard resident homeowner, taxpayer, and U.S. citizen in York Township, DuPage County. Mr. Roberto Hung Mustelier is an Illinois Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes who was
abused, throttled, and murdered by Respiratory Ben Aguilar while Roberto Hung was asleep as an intensive care patient at Vencor Northlake Hospital under the medical supervision of Dr. Raied Abdullah, Dr. Grodzin and other physicians, nurses, and medical staff. I, Gardenia C. Hung Appeal The Denial of Application for Financial Assistance on legal grounds for remedy
and justice under the Constitution of the State of Illinois, Article I, Bill of Rights, Section 8.1 for Crime Victims’ Rights, Section 12 Right To Remedy and Justice with the National Victims’ Constitutional Amendment for Illinois Enforceable Victims’ Rights Act pleading for Illinois
Crime Victims Compensation for Lombard Victim of Crimes Mr. Roberto Hung Mustelier, Juris Doctor, Claim No.12CV1740, Deceased Lombard resident homeowner, taxpayer, U.S. citizen at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard in York Township, Du Page County, Illinois 60148-3028 USA. Therefore, I, Gardenia C. Hung have incurred Extraordinary
Healthcare Expenses, Funeral Autopsy, Church and Crematory Expenses, Home Care Expenses, Pharmaceutical Expenses, and Legal Court Financial Expenses at the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court in DuPage County, Caretaker Expenses for Mr. Roberto Hung Mustelier, my Father who has been a Lombard Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes since he purchased two (2) homes, one by
St. Pius X Catholic Church and School, and the other by Sacred Heart Catholic Church and School, in the Village of Lombard,York Township, DuPage County, Illinois.
For the record, the Northlake Police Department has the Investigation Report No. 98-1392, dated June 18, 1998, at 8H50 for Reporting Officer Michael Brletich, Police No. 140, Sargent D. DiIulio on file to document and support that Mr. Roberto Hung was found bleeding around tracheotomy tube on the neck area under suspicious circumstances after the daughter Gardenia Hung found him in bed, unconscious, and already dead around 7:00 A.M. State of Illinois reports have been filed on record documenting complaints against Vencor Northlake Hospital abuses of patients, overbilling, and medical fraud by healthcare staff and the investigation by the Cook County Proviso Senior Citizen Community Human Services
Department was also submitted. In addition, the U.S. Social Security Administration was notified for abuses of Medicare/Medicaid overbilling medical services at Vencor Northlake Hospital.
Brust Funeral Home and Shaku Teas, M.D. Forensic Pathologist performed the Autopsy and found that Mr. Roberto Hung suffered and died from severe bleeding and internal damages to the respiratory tract, lungs, and puncture to his heart which caused his death under medical care of
Dr. Grodzin and Dr. Raied Abdullah at Vencor Northlake Hospital in Cook County, Illinois.
Mr. Roberto Hung was a Traumatic Brain Injury Patient who was injured from a severe and blunt hit to the head at his Lombard home on December 22, 1996, after he returned home from working at The Pampered Chef in Addison and Dominick’s Food Stores in Oakbrook Terrace.
Mr. Roberto Hung has been an Illinois Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes who was hospitalized at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Edwards Hospital, Manor Care Nursing Home, Marianjoy Rehabilitation Community Center, Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Vencor Northlake Hospital in Northlake, Illinois. Mr. Roberto Hung was
fully insured by Medicare/Medicaid, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Principal Financial Group, Physicians’ Mutual, COBRA, etc.
Since I, Gardenia C. Hung, have incurred Extraordinary Expenses on behalf of Mr. Roberto Hung and I am currently experiencing Financial Hardship as a Lombard Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes, on behalf of Mr. Roberto Hung Mustelier; Therefore, I Do Hereby Appeal The Denial
of Application for Financial Assistance on legal grounds under the Constitution of the State of Illinois, Article I, Bill of Rights, Section 8.1 for Crime Victims’ Rights, Section 12 Right To Remedy and Justice and the National Victims’ Constitutional Amendment for Illinois Enforceable Victims’ Rights Act pleading for Illinois Crime Victims Compensation for
Lombard Victim of Crimes Mr. Roberto Hung Mustelier, Juris Doctor, Claim No.12CV1740, Deceased Lombard resident homeowner, taxpayer, U.S. citizen at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard in York Township, Du Page County, Illinois 60148-3028 USA.
Respectfully,
Mrs. Gardenia C. Hung (Wittler) (Reserved Signature)
Executor Trustee for the Estate of Mr. Roberto Hung, Juris Doctor, and Family
Copy: Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White and Ex Officio Clerk of the Court of Claims
Dated on December 11, 2011 in the Village of Lombard, York Township, County of DuPage, in
the State of Illinois, United States of America

Illinois Crime Victims Compensation For Mr. Roberto Hung, Case No. 11cv5273

2011-11-10T11:11:00.001-08:00

Illinois Crime Victims Office

I, Gardenia C. Hung, do hereby request and petition Illinois Crime Victims Compensation for my Father, Mr. Roberto Hung, Deceased, Illinois Crime Victims Case No. 11cv5273

Re: Illinois Victim of Crime Mr. Roberto Hung (Deceased: June 18, 1998 at Vencor Northlake Hospital Murdered by Respiratory Therapist Ben Aguilar. Mr. Roberto Hung was under medical care of Dr. Grodzin from Elmhurst Memorial Hospital) Lombard resident homeowner at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard in York Township, DuPage County, Illinois 60148-3028 United States of America.

Mr. Roberto Hung had medical coverage under Medicare, The Principal Healthcare from The Pampered Chef, Cobra from Dominick's Food Stores, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Physicians Mutual, etc.

Re: Illinois Victims of Crime Case No.11cv5273 for Mr. Roberto Hung, Lombard resident homeowner murdered and throttled by Respiratory Therapist Ben Aguilar who caused his death at Vencor Northlake Hospital.

My name is Gardenia C. Hung Wittler, eldest daughter of Mr. Roberto Hung, deceased Lombard resident homeowner and Illinois Victim of Crimes at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road. I am writing to you because Mr. Roberto Hung (deceased) has been denied Illinois Crime Victims Compensation by Corey-Anne Gulkewicz Assistant Attorney General, even when Mr. Roberto Hung was abused and murdered during his morning sleep as patient of Dr. Grodzin and other physicians and medical staff at Vencor Northlake Hospital after being treated at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital. I am writing to you to file a complaint and dispute the denial of the Illinois Crime Victims Compensation financial assistance for the surviving family of Mr. Roberto Hung.

I, Gardenia C. Hung-Wittler, personally have to incur all the medical, legal, funeral, and extraordinary expenses involving the murder of Mr. Roberto Hung at Vencor Northlake Hospital by Respiratory Therapist Ben Aguilar on June 18, 1998, while Mr. Roberto Hung was under the care of Dr. Grodzin, other physicians, and medical nursing staff who witnessed the murder of Mr. Roberto Hung while he was asleep on the morning of June 18, 1998, before 7:00 a.m.

I am writing to you to appeal the denial of Illinois Crime Victims Compensation for financial assistance and reimbursement of the medical, legal, funeral, and other extraordinary expenses, incurred by the family of Mr. Roberto Hung, Lombard resident homeowner, taxpayer, and Illinois Victim of Crimes in the Village of Lombard, York Township, in DuPage County, Illinois, United States of America.

Please consider this letter of complaint against the denial of Illinois Crime Victims Compensation for Mr. Roberto Hung and surviving family members in the Village of Lombard, State of Illinois, U.S.A.

I, Gardenia C. Hung-Wittler, do hereby petition and request Illinois Crime Victims Compensation for Mr. Roberto Hung, Illinois Victim of Crime Case No. 11cv5273.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Gardenia C. Hung-Wittler
Post Office Box 1274
Lombard, Illinois 60148-8274
U.S.A.

Gardenia Hung First Aid To Father and Mother in Lombard

2011-10-26T10:54:00.000-07:00

A Medical Examiner's Twenty Years As A Victim of Crime at the Office of Workman's Compensation, U.S. Department of Labor

2011-01-28T12:26:00.000-08:00

During the 25th Anniversary of the National Center for Victims of Crime in the U.S.A. and the upcoming events planned for the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 10-16, 2011 and those to follow, I remember how I have become a Victim of Crime in Illinois at the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workman's Compensation. My name is Gardenia C. Hung, Illinois Victim of Crimes for the last twenty (20) years after I worked as a federal employee full-time at the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workman’s Compensation, Employment Standards Administration, General Services Administration, at the Klucynski Building, 230 North Dearborn Street, 8th Floor, in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1991-1992, I have been denied Crime Victims’ Rights in the State of Illinois for this 20-year-old case matter in Department of Labor court summons, court hearings, court appearances, arbitrations, meetings, panel discussions, U.S. Mail notifications, advisories, etc. In addition, the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workers’ Compensation staff had me held by force to induce drug injection on the right thumb to paralyze my right hand and wrist during October 1991. I am writing to the National Center for Victims of Crime in 2011 for assistance, help, and compensation as an Illinois Victim of Crime in Lombard and Villa Park, County of Du Page, in the Land of Lincoln, U.S.A. I have been victimized and denied crime victims’ rights for the last twenty (20) years. In view of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 10-16, 2011, I am petitioning for justice, equity and fairness for compensation as an Illinois Victim of Crime under the Constitution of the United States of America as the theme for the year implies “Reshaping The Future, Honoring The Past”.

Twenty years ago, during 1991-1992, I was hired as a certified medical claims examiner, analyst, by the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workman’s Compensation, on the 8th Floor of the Klucynski Building, across from the Dirksen Federal Building. While I worked full-time as a federal employee at the U.S. DOL, OWCP Office, the first week of October 1991, I was injured, harassed, and abused during the course of employment, after 5:00 PM; since then, I have become an Illinois Victim of Crime because I worked for Richard Kadus, Phyllis Crane, Shelene Turner, Joan Rosel, Thom M. Sheridan and other federal employees reviewing and adjudicating fellow federal employees claims for the Office of Workman’s Compensation in Chicago, Illinois. As an Illinois Victim of Crime, I have been denied Victims’ Rights granted to others in the State of Illinois.

During January 1991, when I was working full-time for the U.S. Department of Labor, OWCP Office, I was trained and hired to review federal employees’ medical claims for work injuries suffered during the course of federal employment for adjudication, medical treatment, rehabilitation, vocational training, and a recommended monetary award. The first week of October 1991, after the visit of the former U.S. DOL Secretary Lynn Martin to the DOL Chicago Office, the Supervisor for Unit 2, Shelene Turner had returned from a two-week vacation touring Rome, Italy. Then, other federal employees like Anita Freeney and Lois Ware in Unit 2, also wanted to go on vacation and take their leave of absence immediately; so they started transferring their assigned OWCP claim files to the desk of Gardenia C. Hung for additional review, adjudication, and awarding, leaving several tall, high stacking files from their end of the office to the other side by the window cubicles where I was sitting. At the end of the day, Anita Freeney started screaming at me, shouting that I had to take all her pending federal employees’ OWCP incomplete and unfinished, harassing me while I was at my office cubicle desk, after Shelene Turner, the Supervisor, had gone home for the day—since I was staying after 5 PM, working extra hours without any compensation, leave of absence or vacation time off.

Then, Anita Freeney ran to Richard Kadus’ office, when the latter came out and started verbally reprimanding Gardenia C. Hung because of the former’s federal OWCP case loads and stacks, incomplete and undone, files stacked high on the medical claims examiner’s desk because Anita Freeney wanted to go on vacation, instead of continuing to work on her OWCP case loads—when it was not Gardenia C. Hung’s fault. Suddenly, Richard Kadus started abusing Gardenia C. Hung to force her to take some white pills he had and afterwards, injecting her right thumb with a drug from a hypodermic needle to paralyze her right wrist and hand, and marking her white shirt with blue ink marking a cross. As a Victim of Crime, I was abused and drugged by Richard Kadus and Anita Freeney at the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workman’s Compensation. Consequently, I had to be hospitalized for three (3) months at Rush St. Luke Presbyterian Hospital next to the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Campus.

This federal incident also caused me a problem with my former employer, Jose Poquet, who was then the Executive Director of Premier GESA Assistance Groupe Européen, a travel emergency medical insurance network for North America, the Caribbean, Central and South America.

While I was hospitalized at Rush St. Luke Presbyterian Hospital because of the U.S. DOL OWCP Office abuse and induced drug injection on my right thumb, I was also injured and kicked by a security staff man at the hospital who abused me and caused an extended hospitalization which resulted in the loss of my job during January 1992. Richard Kadus would not let me return to work at the U.S. DOL OWCP Office when Illinois Senator Paul Simon was involved with the federal workman’s compensation office.

Even when I filed a Complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor, Annabelle T. Lockhart denied my claim for compensation and lied about the circumstances involving abuse of my person at the OWCP Office in Chicago, Illinois. U.S. DOL OWCP has not contacted or mailed any notifications to me as an Illinois Victim of Crime, thus denying me constitutional crime victims’ rights to date. I received a notice from the Social Security Administration that $20,000US dollars had been removed from my federal Social Security Pension for work performed during 1991.

One year afterwards, on September 2nd, 1993, my father, Mr. Roberto Hung, J.D. decided to purchase a Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow built in 1927 in the Village of Lombard, County of Du Page, Illinois. As a Lombard resident homeowner and U.S. citizen, the Village of Lombard Police had me kidnapped, tortured, sequestered, harassed, abused, and physically injured, so I would lose consciousness and forget who had kidnapped me. In Lombard I have become a Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes, Criminal Roofing Disaster, Persecution, Sedition, and Harassment.

After kidnapping me in Aurora, Illinois following a legal court interpreting assignment for Interlate Systems Inc. also known then as Pan Blanco in Elgin, a Lombard Policeman offered to drive me home my Lombard home and broke my right big toe, knocking me out, and injuring me at my Lombard home, which caused me to have a traumatic concussion, resulting in a mild stroke, and loss of consciousness so he could remove me from my home and sequestered me to an unknown DuPage Hospital where my family could not find me. Once again, I became a Victim of Crime by the Lombard Police Department. Afterwards, the Lombard Police continued to trespass and access my Lombard home without authorization by passing out the Hung Family’s household spare keys to intruders without the homeowners’ consent and approval.

During 2004 and 2005, the historic Lombard Bungalow suffered from a massive plumbing failure and criminal roofing disaster arranged by the Lombard Police Department and the Village of Lombard staffing employees, allowing weather elements like rain, snow, and wind to damage and deteriorate the roofing housing structure on the southwest side of the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow built in 1927.

Then, on January 12, 2006, my Mother Mrs. G. Fong Ramos was set up for harassment by the Lombard Police Department, Scott Watkins, and other who failed to report her hospitalization by the Lombard Fire Department Paramedics and the Police who told me that she was removed to Wheaton, to be found at the Du Page Coroner’s Office. The Deputy Coroner and the secretary could not find my Mother’s body there. Since then, no one told me where my Mother was hospitalized or her location. Five (5) years have passed and my Mother is still alive in Illinois, even though I have not been contacted or notified of her whereabouts. My Mother, Mrs. G. Fong Ramos has an alias today and she is a Victim of Crime also.

Then on July 26, 2006, I was participating in a training seminar by Beth O’Neill at the Illinois Employment and Training Center for Listening until 4:30 PM, ready to go home in Lombard, when two women from Glen Ellyn reported that I had taken a mobile cellular telephone they has lost at home in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. So Lombard Police David Thiede and Pam Larsen falsely accused me of taking the mobile telephone in front of St. Pius X Catholic Church, two blocks from the Eastgate Shopping Center where I had been all day for employment training. This is another instance of serious and tragic Lombard Police errors and omissions which have added more Victims of Crimes by the Lombard Police in DuPage County, Illinois USA.

After November 5, 2008, when Keith Steiskal and George Seagraves from the Lombard Fire Department caused the criminal disaster demolition, looting, and stealing household and business assets from the Hung Family Estate at the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow, I have been homeless and destitute in the County of Du Page, State of Illnois, U.S.A.

I moved to Villa Park on November 17, 2009 and during January 2010, I began to have problems of harassment , victim of screaming, pushing, and verbal abuse by Chuck Pickerill, Henry W. Hochstatter, Bobby Pickerill, and others from UHAUL of Villa Park, following a relocation to the King Construction Building owned by Alex King at 140 West St. Charles Road, Apartment 4B, in Villa Park, Illinois 60181. Chuck Pickerill is related to the Villa Park Fire Department as the son of Charles Pickerill, Jr. former Villa Park Fire Chief who had a heart attack while working at UHAUL in Addison on Sunday, during November 2009, the week before Thanksgiving.

Throughout these twenty (20) years, I have not received any compensation from the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workman’s Compensation as an Illinois Victim of Crime whose constitutional rights have been abused, disregarded, and ignored.

National Center for Victims of Crime PSA

2011-01-26T09:29:00.000-08:00

Abuse of a Translator and Interpreter by the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois USA

2010-10-25T09:22:00.000-07:00

My name is Gardenia C. Hung (Fong) Wittler, eldest daughter of Mr. Roberto Hung Mustelier, and Lombard resident homeowner at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, Post Office Box 1274, Lombard, Illinois 60148-8274, in DuPage County, citizen of the United States of America. Originally, I was born in Santiago de Cuba, in the province of Oriente, in the country of Cuba, on December 27, 1958, the eldest daughter of Dr. Roberto Hung Mustelier, J.D. and Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos, both natural parents of Chinese-Cuban descent, whose grandfathers were Chinese nationals from southern China, Hong Kong, Canton province in mainland China. Since I have lived in the Village of Lombard, I have been a victim of heinous hate crimes, emotional distress, personal tragedy, physical abuse, a broken right toe which has developed into a hammertoe with painful muscle tension around the twisted right ankle (attached photos), harassment, sedition, kidnapping on several occasions, conspiracy, contrived auto accidents due to mechanical failure, motor breakdown, faulty brakes, broken front axle, electrical wiring failure on the motorcycle Derbi Boulevard 150 CC, a broken Sears Craftsman Deluxe Lawn Mower, damaged auto vehicles, victim of criminal disaster roofing for water damages and losses. The Federation of International Translators www.fit-ift.org referred me to the UNESCO Human Rights Commission to file a complaint as a Victim for Abuse of Human Rights in the Village of Lombard, County of Du Page, Illinois in the United States of America. I have been married to former U.S. Navy Postal Clerk Nathan Scott Wittler (Patriquin) during the years of victimization from June 18, 1988 through June 17, 1994, when Nathan S. Wittler filed for a divorce by proxy in West Dummerston, Vermont, New England in the United States of America—since I did not sign the divorce document mailed to me from Windham County, Vermont, the divorce proceeding has not been validated.

For the last seventeen (17) years, I have worked as a legal, medical, technical interpreter and translator while I have lived in the Village of Lombard, in the Counties of Du Page, Cook, Will, Kane, LaSalle, Lake in Illinois, United States of America. During the same period of time, I have been employed as a certified freelance court interpreter and translator for Interlate Systems, Inc. in Elgin and Aurora, Arroyave Languages Academy in Arlington Heights and Highland Park, Palencia Language Services in Chicago, Accurate Translations Bureau in Hinsdale, and other translation agencies in the U.S.A. I have been an active member of the Chicago Area Translators and Interpreters Association (CHICATA) www.chicata.org, the American Translators Association (ATA) www.atanet.org, the International Federation of Translators (FIT) www.fit-ift.org. I have been commissioned as an Illinois Notary Public in Cook and Du Page County, Illinois. In addition, I have worked as faculty at the College of Du Page in Glen Ellyn and Lombard for Good Samaritan Hospital, Central Du Page Hospital, National Chiropractic College (NCC) , also known as the University of Health and Sciences in Lombard, as well as for other companies sponsored by the College of Du Page Business Institute Programs for Health Communications.

Prior to living in the western suburbs, during January 1991, I resided on the northwest side of Chicago, while I worked as certified interpreter and translator for Action Translation Bureau in Palos Heights and Carmen Kenny and Associates in Arlington Heights, Illinois upon assignment at the Illinois Industrial Commission Arbitration Center for Workers’ Compensation . In addition, I was hired for temporary assignment by Diplomatic Languages Services based in Arlington, Virginia. Later, I was employed as a medical claims examiner for the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workers’ Compensation (OWCP), Employment Standards Administration (ESA), General Services Administration (GSA). www.usdol.gov

During seventeen years of residency in the Village of Lombard as a homeowner, I have participated as an active volunteer for the Lombard Service League, Friends of the Helen M. Plum Library Committee, Friends of the Park, the Lombard Garden Club, Friends of the Court in Wheaton, Court Advocacy Programs in Illinois.

While I growing up, I never had to worry about having a roof above my head and a place to live, until I moved to the Village of Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois, in the United States of America. My great-grandparents and great-great grandparents in mainland China, Taiwan, and Cuba, all owned their own real estate property, private homes, and purchased land parcels to lease to others. All American family members living throughout the United States of America, have real estate holdings today under the same family name. As the eldest daughter of an attorney, judge, and university professor, I was fortunate to have been born with the same family name and real estate land holdings and accounts where my name was listed. Only the Village of Lombard in the York Township community has questioned my human rights in housing under the law after seventeen years (17) years of homeownership as a Lombard resident and U.S. citizen in the State of Illinois during the 21st century—after my Father and I, purchased a Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow at 502 S. Westmore Avenue, at the corner of Washington Boulevard, one block northwest from Westmore Elementary School and one block southeast from St. Pius X Catholic Church and School, only three blocks from the Illinois Secretary of State Drivers Vehicle Facility at the Eastgate Shopping Center along Westmore-Meyers Road and half a mile from the York Township Community Center. For the last seventeen (17) years, the Village of Lombard has been denying U.S. Constitutional rights in housing under the law in the State of Illinois to me as a Lombard resident homeowner and U.S. citizen in the State of Illinois. And for the same period, the Village of Lombard Town Hall, Police and Fire Department, have been using me, as a Victim of Crime while being a working Lombard resident homeowner and U.S. citizen, in Du Page County, Illinois in the United States of America. Thus, the Village of Lombard, Town Hall, Police and Fire Department, including Du Page County have been violating my human rights in housing under the law and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, in the U.S.A. today.

For the record, the Hung Family purchased the Lombard Brick Bungalow on September 2, 1993 and moved to the Village of Lombard in DuPage County, Illinois during the Autumn 1993 from the Northwest side of Chicago, Cook County. The Hung Family have been Lombard resident homeowners at the corner of 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, near Saint Pius X Catholic Church and Westmore Elementary School, all victims of heinous hate crimes, criminal disaster demolition, persecution, harassment, and physical abuse, car accidents, and forced hospitalizations in DuPage County, Illinois USA. The Village of Lombard and DuPage County, have been stealing from the Hung Family personal, family belongings, household electronics, kitchen equipment, and professional company assets and resources belonging to the company Communications, Languages & Culture, Inc. without compensating or restituting the Estate of Mr. Roberto Hung and Family and/or the company Communications, Languages & Culture, Inc. in the State of Illinois, United States of America.

The Village of Lombard is denying me human rights in housing under the law as a Lombard Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes, during seventeen (17) years of living in Du Page County as resident homeowner and U.S. citizen, when David Hulseberg continues in the refusal to provide lawful lodging, compensation, and restitution for criminal disaster roofing damages and losses, considered to be violations of the Bill of Rights under the Constitution of the State of Illinois.

During 2009-2010 and the celebration of the Bicentennial of the late President Abraham Lincoln’s two hundredth anniversary, the Constitution of the State of Illinois still upholds “inherent and inalienable human rights” listed under the Bill of Rights, Section 1, Section 2, Section 6, Section 8.1, Section 12, Section 15, Section 17, Section 18, Section 20, Section 23, Section 24, as follow:

Inherent and Inalienable Rights

All men (and women) are by nature free and independent and have certain inherent and inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights and the protection of property, governments are instituted among men (and women) deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Due Process and Equal Protection

No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law nor be be denied the equal protection of the laws.

Searches, Seizures, Privacy and Interceptions

The people shall have the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and other possessions against unreasonable searches, seizures, invasions of privacy or interceptions of communications by eavesdropping devices or other means. No warrant shall be issued without probable cause, supported by affidavit particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.

Crime Victims’ Rights

(a) Crime Victims, as defined by law, shall have the following rights as provided by law:

(1) The right to be treated with fairness and respect for their dignity and privacy throughout the criminal justice process.

(2) The right to notification of court proceedings.

(3) The right to communicate with the prosecution.

(4) The right to make a statement to the court at sentencing.

(5) The right to information about the conviction, sentence, imprisonment, and release of the accused.

(6) The right to timely disposition of the case following the arrest of the accused.

(7) The right to be reasonably protected from the accused throughout the criminal justice process.

(8) The right to be present at the trial and all other court proceedings on the same basis as the accused, unless the victim is to testify and the court determines that the victim’s testimony would be materially affected if the victim hears other testimony at the trial.

(9) The right to have present at all court proceedings, subject to the rules of evidence, an advocate or other support person of the victim’s choice.

(10) The right to restitution.

(b) The Illinois General Assembly may provide the law for the enforcement of this Section.

(c) The Illinois General Assembly may provide for the assessment against convicted defendants to pay for the crime victims’ rights.

(d) Nothing in this Section or in any law enacted under this Section shall be construed as creating a basis for vacating a conviction or a ground for appellate relief in any criminal case. (Section 8.1 added by the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution. Approved November 3, 1992, effective November 23, 1992).

Right to Remedy and Justice

Every person shall find a certain remedy in the laws for all injuries and wrongs which he receives to his (or her) person, privacy, property or reputation. He (or She) shall obtain justice by law, freely, completely, and promptly.

Right to Eminent Domain

Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation as provided by law. Such compensation shall be determined by a jury as provided by law.

No Discrimination in Employment or in the Sale or Rental of Property

All persons have the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, national ancestry and sex in the hiring and promotion of any employer or in the sale or rental of property.

These rights are enforceable without action by the Illinois General Assembly, but the Illinois General Assembly by law may establish reasonable exemptions relating to these rights and provide additional remedies for their violation.

No Discrimination on the Basis of Sex

The equal protection of the laws shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex by the State of Illinois or its units of local government and school districts.

Individual Dignity

To promote individual dignity, communications that portray criminality, depravity or lack of virtue in, or that incite violence, hatred, abuse or hostility toward a person or group of persons by reason or by reference to religious, racial, ethnic, national or regional affiliation are condemned.

Fundamental Principles

A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of civil government is necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty. These blessings cannot endure unless the people (of the State of Illinois) recognize their corresponding individual obligations and responsibilities.

Right Retained

The enumeration in this Constitution (of the State of Illinois) of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the individual citizens of the State of Illinois.

Illinois Blue Book of Government, 2009-2010. Edited by Jesse White Secretary of State.

For the last seventeen (17) years, the Village of Lombard has been denying U.S. Constitutional rights in housing under the law in the State of Illinois to me as a Lombard resident homeowner and U.S. citizen in the State of Illinois. And for the same period, the Village of Lombard Town Hall, Police and Fire Department, have been using me, as a Victim of Crime while being a working Lombard resident homeowner and U.S. citizen, in Du Page County, Illinois in the United States of America. Thus, the Village of Lombard, Town Hall, Police and Fire Department, including Du Page County have been violating my human rights in housing under the law and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, in the U.S.A. today.

Lombard Policeman Fractured Right Toe on the foot of Gardenia C. Hung causing a hammertoe and a pigeon foot in the Village of Lombard, without reason

8th Annual Deicke Home Walk-A-thon at the Lagoon on Grace Street and North Avenue, Lombard

2010-09-18T10:28:00.001-07:00

Come Walk With Us on Sunday, September 19th, at the Lombard Lagoon on Grace Street, just south of North Avenue between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Free Lunch Follows The Walk at 12:30 p.m. in the Lagoon Center.
Come Have Some Fun! Meet WGN Radio 720 AM Personalities Mary VandeVelde, Andrea Darlas, Judy Pielach, and Leslie Keiling, as well as LPGA Pro Rachel Teresi. Enjoy Music on Sunday Afternoon by Charlie Prazma and Sara Vettraino of "Belle Music".
This Year's Walk-A-Thon continues to benefit the men and women living at the Deicke Home.
The approximate 1/2 mile path at the Lombard Lagoon is paved, flat, partially shaded, and scenic. Each walker making a personal donation or turning in collected donations by September 19th, will receive a Deicke Home Walk-A-Thon T-Shirt with compliments.

DuPage Women's Fair at Yorktown Center The Shops on Butterfield

2010-09-03T12:18:00.000-07:00

Meet Illinois State Representatives Sandy Pihos and Patti Bellock with the American Cancer Society at the DuPage Women's Fair on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Yorktown Shopping Center, on Highland Avenue and Butterfield in the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois 60148.

"Remembering What I Forgot: Everyday Memory Aids" by Jordan Stewart

2010-08-05T07:46:00.000-07:00

High Hopes Brain Injury Support Group
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010, 6:30-8:00PM
Speaker: Jordan Stewart, M.Ed., CCC-SLP
Marianjoy Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare
"Remembering What I Forgot: Everyday Memory Aids"
For More Information, Please Contact Dr. Nancy Devereux, Tel. 630-909-8607

Addison Senior Health Fair Sponsored by State Representative Dennis Reboletti

2010-08-03T06:07:00.000-07:00

State Representative Dennis Reboletti & State Senator Carole Pankau’s
9:00 a.m. to Noon
Addison Park District
120 E. Oak Street
Addison, Illinois
Senior Health Fair
Wednesday, August 4

Veteran’s Affairs
Assisted Living
Passport
Nutrition
Long Term Care
Medicare
Transportation
Financial Stability
Cash Dash
Family Care
Phone Bill Analysis
Legal Information
Hearing
Digital Posture
Blood Pressure
Computerized
Spinal Scan
Flu Shots
(Per availability - Free w/
Medicare B, $20 without)
Glucose (Fasting
Recommended)
Glaucoma
Screenings Available
Information Available

Addison Fire Dept.
Addison Park District
Addison Physical Medicine
Addison Police Dept.
Advanced Chiropractic
Advanced Healthcare
Adventist GlenOaks Hospital
Alden Gardens of Bloomingdale
Arden Courts
Asbury Court
Athletico
Belmont Village
Central DuPage Hospital
Citizens Utility Board
Club Fitness
Comfort Keepers
Congressman Peter Roskam’s Office
Countryside Funeral Homes &
Crematory
Crossroads Estate Planning
DuPage County Circuit Court Clerk
DuPage County Health Dept.
DuPage County Senior Services
DuPage County Veteran’s Assistance
Commission
Edward Jones
Elmhurst Extended Care Center
Elmhurst Memorial Hospital
Franciscan Village
Hines VAMC
Home Helpers
Illinois Dept. of Healthcare & Family
Services
Illinois Dept. of Human Services/
Division of Rehab Services
Independent Consultant Group
John Pankau, Attorney at Law
Juice Plus
Lange Home Medical Equipment
Lexington Square of Lombard &
Elmhurst
NEIL Area Agency on Aging
North Chicago V.A. Hospital
Office of the Illinois Attorney General
Office of the Illinois Treasurer
PACE
Pathway Senior Living
Poison Control Center
Prairie State Legal Services
Roselle Chiropractic
RTA
Secretary of State
Smile & Love Inc.
Social Security Administration
Sonus Hearing
The Arbor of Itasca
University of Illinois Extension
Voices of Vision Talking Book Center
Waddell & Reed
Walgreen’s
Wohl Eye Center
Free Admission, Free Refreshments & Free Screenings!!!

Henry W. Hochstatter Owes An Apology To Gardenia C. Hung

2010-07-23T11:44:00.001-07:00

Henry W. Hochstatter Owes Money to Gardenia C. Hung
For Your Information: Henry William Hochstatter is demanding $3,420 dollars plus court costs for rent and utilities at 140 West St. Charles Road, Apt.B in Villa Park, Illinois 60181, Telephone 630-833-4032 even when I have been paying more than $5,159 dollars in cash, credit, and helping with household chores, when Henry W. Hochstatter does not pay me any money, cash, or compensation for my assistance doing laundry, grocery shopping, miscellaneous home chores, moving his belongings, etc.

Your Reference: Villa Park Police Report No. 100215002701, February 15, 2010, Time: 18:04, Villa Park Police Department Phone: 630-834-7447, Officer's Name: Blake #353

Gardenia C. Hung has paid in excess of $5,159 dollars in person to Henry W. Hochstatter, cash, credit, and other tangible items, goods, new clothing, medication, food, car gasoline for Toyota SUV R5, use of Lombard Post Office Box 1274, telephone deposits for AT&T, U.S. Cellular telephone payments, laundry, etc. Gardenia C. Hung has also incurred Chase VISA Credit Card Debt in the amount of $2,514.69 for lodging at Motel 66, InTown Suites, Colonoscopy Medication, and other expenses on behalf of Henry W. Hochtstatter. In addition, Henry W. Hochstatter has received tangible goods such as a White 1993 Mitsubishi 4-Door Sedan, Sears Pro-Form Treadmill which was broken by Henry W. Hochstatter, Toro Snowblower, Wood Garden Chipper, several Sears Craftman gardening tools, Ace Hardware White Foldable Fencing, Carpenter’s Leather Caddy, New Clothing, Shirts, T-Shirts, Pants, in excess of $5,600 dollars. Consequently, Henry W. Hochstatter owes Gardenia for CHASE VISA Credit Card charges, expenses, and interest accrued since December 8, 2008.

For the record, Henry W. Hochstatter is a disabled adult, age 55, who receives Social Security Disability benefits monthly in the amount of $1,200, plus Henry W. Hochstatter also works for U-Haul as a truck driver, transporter, and for The Next Generation Auto Shop, as well as for Alex King Construction, Inc. at 140 W. St. Charles Road, Apt. 4B, in Villa Park, Illlinois 60181. Henry W. Hochstatterreceives payment in cash for other miscellaneous gardening jobs, tasks, handyman, gardening work, etc. which is not reported.

Please note that Henry W. Hochstatter does not pay Gardenia C. Hung any money, compensation or cash since November 17, 2009 after she has helped this disabled man to move into his new apartment, even when Gardenia Hung has been helping him as a friend, companion, and assistant during his banking matters, social security suspension, divorce court matters, driver’s license return, and other miscellaneous issues as a victim of traumatic brain injury and disability.

In conclusion,Gardenia C. Hung has paid in excess of $4,525 dollars in person to Henry W. Hochstatter, cash, CHASE VISA credit in excess of $2,514.69, and other tangible items, goods, new clothing, medication, food, car gasoline for Toyota SUV R5, telephone deposits, laundry, etc. In addition, Henry W. Hochstatter has received tangible goods such as a White 1993 Mitsubishi 4-Door Sedan, Sears Pro-Form Treadmill which was broken by Henry W. Hochstatter, Toro Snowblower, Wood Garden Chipper, several Sears Craftman gardening tools, Ace Hardware White Foldable Fencing, Carpenter’s Leather Caddy, New Clothing, Shirts, T-Shirts, Pants, in excess of $5,600 dollars. Gardenia C. Hung does not owe Henry W. Hochstatter any further cash, credit, tangible goods, or assistance for disability as a traumatic brain injury person.

Dated on the 19th day of July 2010, in the Village of Lombard, County of DuPage,

Verification

Under penalties as provided by law, pursuant to Section 1-109 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, the undersigned certifies that the statement set forth in this instrument are true and correct, to the best of my ability, so help me God.
Executed in the Village of Villa Park, County of Du Page, in the State of Illinois,
United States of America.

Gardenia C. Hung

SENIOR HEALTH FAIR AT YORK TOWNSHIP IN LOMBARD, APRIL 16, 2010

2010-04-09T09:01:00.001-07:00

SAVE THE DATE----Free Senior Event—APRIL 16TH

Seniors, their families, and friends are all invited to Representative Sandra Pihos’ annual Senior Fair on April 16th! Along with free admission, there will be free refreshments and a chance to win great door prizes! Free medical screenigss include vision testing, blood pressure screenings, massages, spinal analysis and more. Information regarding legal, financial, medical, assisted living and home health care issues will also be available. Additionally, the Secretary of State office will be on hand to renew state IDs and Driver’s Licenses. Dr. Gupta, a retina specialist from DuPage Medical Group will speak on macular degeneration at 12:30 PM

The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the York Township Senior Center, 1502 S. Meyers Rd., Lombard. This informal but informative fair gives seniors an opportunity to chat with the Representative, gather health and lifestyle information, receive important medical screenings, and win some great prizes!

Please call Representative Pihos’ office at 630-858-8855 if you would like more information.

U.S. Health Care Reform Update

2010-04-05T07:56:00.000-07:00

Since the House of Representatives voted to pass health reform legislation on Sunday night, the legislative process and its political impact have been the focus of all the newspapers and cable TV pundits.

Outside of DC, however, many Americans are trying to cut through the chatter and get to the substance of reform with a simple question: "What does health insurance reform actually mean for me?" To help, we've put together some of the key benefits from health insurance reform.

Let's start with how health insurance reform will expand and strengthen coverage:

This year, children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied health insurance coverage. Once the new health insurance exchanges begin in the coming years, pre-existing condition discrimination will become a thing of the past for everyone.
This year, health care plans will allow young people to remain on their parents' insurance policy up until their 26th birthday.
This year, insurance companies will be banned from dropping people from coverage when they get sick, and they will be banned from implementing lifetime caps on coverage. This year, restrictive annual limits on coverage will be banned for certain plans. Under health insurance reform, Americans will be ensured access to the care they need.
This year, adults who are uninsured because of pre-existing conditions will have access to affordable insurance through a temporary subsidized high-risk pool.
In the next fiscal year, the bill increases funding for community health centers, so they can treat nearly double the number of patients over the next five years.
This year, we'll also establish an independent commission to advise on how best to build the health care workforce and increase the number of nurses, doctors and other professionals to meet our country's needs. Going forward, we will provide $1.5 billion in funding to support the next generation of doctors, nurses and other primary care practitioners -- on top of a $500 million investment from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Health insurance reform will also curb some of the worst insurance industry practices and strengthen consumer protections:

This year, this bill creates a new, independent appeals process that ensures consumers in new private plans have access to an effective process to appeal decisions made by their insurer.
This year, discrimination based on salary will be outlawed. New group health plans will be prohibited from establishing any eligibility rules for health care coverage that discriminate in favor of higher-wage employees.
Beginning this fiscal year, this bill provides funding to states to help establish offices of health insurance consumer assistance in order to help individuals in the process of filing complaints or appeals against insurance companies.
Starting January 1, 2011, insurers in the individual and small group market will be required to spend 80 percent of their premium dollars on medical services. Insurers in the large group market will be required to spend 85 percent of their premium dollars on medical services. Any insurers who don't meet those thresholds will be required to provide rebates to their policyholders.
Starting in 2011, this bill helps states require insurance companies to submit justification for requested premium increases. Any company with excessive or unjustified premium increases may not be able to participate in the new health insurance exchanges.
Reform immediately begins to lower health care costs for American families and small businesses:

This year, small businesses that choose to offer coverage will begin to receive tax credits of up to 35 percent of premiums to help make employee coverage more affordable.
This year, new private plans will be required to provide free preventive care: no co-payments and no deductibles for preventive services. And beginning January 1, 2011, Medicare will do the same.
This year, this bill will provide help for early retirees by creating a temporary re-insurance program to help offset the costs of expensive premiums for employers and retirees age 55-64.
This year, this bill starts to close the Medicare Part D 'donut hole' by providing a $250 rebate to Medicare beneficiaries who hit the gap in prescription drug coverage. And beginning in 2011, the bill institutes a 50% discount on prescription drugs in the 'donut hole.'
Thank you,

Nancy-Ann DeParle
Director, White House Office of Health Reform

Free Webinar: Best Practices for Working with Health Translation Providers

2010-03-01T07:32:00.000-08:00

Your Voice, an AHRQ collaborator, is offering its 5th free Webinar. In this 75-minute webinar, translation and health care experts will share best practices for producing multilingual materials that accurately convey the information in the source document. In this session, you will learn:

Essential quality assurance steps for the translation process.
Common pitfalls to avoid when selecting an external vendor.
Solutions to challenges regarding internal providers.
How to use translation technology – and when to avoid it.
Participants will have the opportunity to obtain tips and recommendations from expert panelists on working with translation providers to ensure that translations are performed with the necessary levels of quality, at the right price, and within the required timeframes, followed by a 15-minute interactive Q&A session. The presenters are:

Nai Kasick, Director of Health Promotion and Cultural and Linguistic Services, L.A. Care, who is responsible for the translation and interpretation services for nearly 800,000 Medi-Cal, Health Families and Healthy Kids members in Los Angeles County.
Nataly Kelly, Senior Analyst, Common Sense Advisory, who is a respected author, consultant and advisor with a specialized interest in interpreting services.
Carolyn Wang Kong, MPP, MPH, Practice Leader, Language Access, Kaiser Permanente, who is a Practice Leader with Kaiser Permanente Northern California region. She is responsible for providing leadership in developing and implementing a regional strategy for language access, which includes interpreter and translation services.
Visit this URL to register for this free webinar: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/165997395

Best Practices for Working with Health Care Translation Providers

Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM EST

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Health care organizations are accustomed to providing interpreting services for spoken language encounters between patients and providers, but they often wrestle with ensuring that written documents are translated with the necessary levels of quality. In this 60-minute webinar, industry experts will share best practices for working with health care providers – both internal and external – to produce multilingual materials that accurately convey the information in the source document. In this session, you will learn:

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-Common pitfalls to avoid when selecting an external vendor
-Solutions to challenges regarding internal providers
-How to use translation technology – and when to avoid it

Followed by a 15-minute interactive Q&A session, participants will have the opportunity to obtain tips and recommendations from expert panelists from Common Sense Advisory, LA Care, and Kaiser Permanente on working with translation providers to ensure that translations are performed with the necessary levels of quality, at the right price, and within the required timeframes.

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Toxic Household Cleaners and Your Health

2010-02-23T07:43:00.000-08:00

17 February 2010, 3:30 PM
Trip Van Noppen
Getting the Dirt on Household Cleaners
Historic litigation may shine light on toxic ingredients

Help Protect Children From Toxic Pesticides Do household cleaners contain ingredients linked to asthma, nerve damage and other health effects? Manufacturers aren't telling, but Earthjustice attorney Keri Powell may have uncovered the key to their pursed lips.

While investigating a potential legal strategy, Keri found buried in the pages of a book of New York State statutes a long-forgotten law authorizing the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to require household cleaning product manufacturers to disclose their chemical ingredients and information about the health risks they pose. In other words, pay dirt.

State regulations issued in 1976 made these disclosures mandatory. Such laws are practically nonexistent in the United States, and the New York law has been altogether overlooked.

Until now.

Earlier this month, Keri led a group of clients into the New York State Supreme Court for historic arguments over chemical disclosure, a case that could have national ramifications. Consumers and their advocates may finally get a satisfactory answer to that critical opening question, which has vexed them for years.

Some disclosures have already been made as a result of the case. After Keri discovered the law and realized companies had for decades been escaping a legal obligation, several household cleaner manufacturers doing business in New York State were put on notice. Letters we sent to the companies in Sept. 2008 requested that they begin obeying the law within 30 days or risk possible legal action. The letters prompted some companies, including the manufacturer of Simple Green products, to file disclosure reports for the first time.

Even though the law Keri unearthed is state-specific, the household cleaners it regulates are not. Simple Green products sold to consumers in the Empire State are no different from Simple Green products sold anywhere else in the country, so consumers across the United States benefit equally from these disclosures and any further information gained as a result of our litigation.

In Mar. 2009, SC Johnson announced that it too would disclose chemical ingredients rather than face Earthjustice attorneys in court. Concurrently, the company launched a candid website that "offers a detailed look at the ingredients in [SC Johnson's] products so you can make the right decisions for your home."

But four companies—Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Church and Dwight, and Reckitt-Bensicker—stonewalled, and thus found themselves a few weeks ago across from Keri and her colleagues in a Manhattan courtroom as defendants in this first-of-its-kind lawsuit. They made it clear that their lips are sealed until authorities pry them open. As Health Campaigner Kathleen Sutcliffe wryly remarked last week, Mr. Clean went to court and pled the fifth.

While this unprecedented legal work unfolds, efforts are being staged on other fronts to change the way toxic chemicals are treated in the United States. A few months ago, I wrote about the urgent need to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act, the major U.S. law concerned with keeping the public safe from toxic chemicals in commercial products. We are awaiting introduction of new federal legislation to fix the current broken system. The household cleaners case helps push the national reform effort forward by showing that disclosure of ingredients and health effects is good for consumers and good for business.

But our New York case also demonstrates that much can be done while we wait for federal reform. After all, figuring out what's in a household cleaner shouldn't be as hard as finding a decades-old, neglected statute in a book of New York laws. Our hope is that all a consumer will have to do in the future to uncover the ingredients in their spray bottle is look at the label.

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Missing Endangered Seniors: Amber Alert Program for Seniors

2010-01-25T09:09:00.000-08:00

New Laws in Illinois

With the beginning of a new year and new legislative session underway, I intend to periodically focus attention in my e-newsletter on new laws that have gone into effect here in Illinois. You may or may not be aware of changes in the law that could have an impact on you, your family or your community, and I hope to offer an explanation as to why these laws were enacted.

Amber Alert Program for Seniors

The first new law of interest establishes an Amber Alert Program for Senior Citizens and is legislation that I worked on last year with Senator Maggie Crotty and the Illinois State Police. Senate Bill 27, now Public Act #96-0149, helps locate elderly individuals who are missing.

The new Endangered Missing Person Advisory Program, commonly referred to as a “Silver Alert”, establishes a regional system which enhances the ability of local police agencies to rapidly transmit information regarding the older adult who is often afflicted with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia and places a high priority in reporting, investigation and public notification. These new efforts are similar to Amber Alert which has been successful in locating children who are believed to have been abducted and in danger. Unfortunately, we have all read about cases of seniors wandering from home, getting disoriented or losing their way while driving. A delayed search can result in the loss of valuable time to locate a missing person.

The Illinois Department on Aging in coordination with the Illinois State Police is developing a community outreach program to promote awareness among the State’s healthcare facilities, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other senior centers. The guidelines and procedures will ensure that specific health information about the missing person is not made public through the alert. State Police will determine whether the missing person is endangered or considered “high risk,” meaning circumstances indicate that the person may be at risk of injury or death. For more information about program services to assist older adults in Illinois and their caregivers, call the IDoA Senior HelpLine at 1-800-252-8966.

In addition, another new law relating to the same topic is House Bill 282, now Public Act #96-0442, which adds to the definition of "missing endangered senior", a person with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias who is reported missing. It provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall conduct training programs for law enforcement personnel to assist in finding missing seniors as the population with this disease increases.

Marianjoy Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group: High Hopes in Wheaton

2010-01-14T08:42:00.000-08:00

New Year's Resolution for Optimal Living with Brain Injury sponsored by Dr. Nancy Devereux, Licensed Psychologist at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital.

Technical assistance call for the Community College Consortia program: Friday, 1/15

2010-01-07T15:09:00.000-08:00

The $70 million Community College Consortia Program will seeks to rapidly create HIT academic programs at Community Colleges (as defined by the 1965 Higher Education Act) or expand existing ones to rapidly create or expand health IT training programs at approximately 70 community colleges throughout the nation.

Please note that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will be hosting a second Technical Assistance call for potential applicants, next Friday, January 15th from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST.

Interested parties are encouraged to join the call using the following information:

•To participate:
•https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/dt/join?id=CBP43S&role=attend&pw=W%3EBj%5Eb6
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•Dial in number: 888-769-8716
•Participant passcode: 6123844

A previous technical assistance call was held in December 16, and a PowerPoint slide presentation and transcript from the call is available at http://healthit.hhs.gov/communitycollege.

There will be time reserved for a Question and Answer session. Please be advised that the TA call will be a listen only event as questions can only be accepted electronically. You are encouraged to submit questions in advance to HITEducation@hhs.gov. During the call, questions will be accepted via the questions tab in the Live Meeting environment.

For detailed information on the Community College Consortia program visit http://healthit.hhs.gov/communitycollege.

First Time Users:
To save time before the meeting, check your system to make sure it is ready to use Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

Visit http://healthit.hhs.gov/hitechgrants for information on additional HITECH funding opportunities.

York Township Volunteer Service by Gardenia C. Hung

2009-12-29T14:07:00.000-08:00

HOW I BECAME SICK AFTER VOLUNTEERING TO CLEAN WITH CLOROX HANDWIPES AND LATEX GLOVES AND SPRAY ALL THE HANDLEBARS, DOORKNOBS, METAL PLATES, DUST DIRTY TABLES AND CHAIRS IN THE AUDITORIUM, HALLWAY AND LOBBY ?

I DEVELOPED A BACKACHE AND A SORE RIGHT SHOULDER AND PAIN ON THE UPPER BACK WITH STIFFNESS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE NECK AND HEADACHE MIGRAINE WITH ALLERGIES, HIGH FEVER, CONGESTION, SNEEZING, AND A SKIN RASH ON THE RIGHT HAND FINGERS. EXTREME PAIN AND ACHE ALONG THE RIGHT SIDE. I HAVE BEEN TO THE DOCTOR AND TAKEN PAIN RELIEVERS DURING NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2009. COURTESY: G.C. HUNG

HHS Healthbeat: Arguing Raises High Levels of Cytokines Associated with Health Conditions Causing Heart Disease

2009-12-21T16:41:00.000-08:00

,HHS HealthBeat (December 17, 2009)
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From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I’m Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.

Arguing can raise levels of body chemicals called cytokines, which fight infection. But continued high levels of cytokines are associated with conditions such as heart disease.

Researcher Jennifer Graham at Penn State has been looking at ways for couples to work on their differences without amping up their cytokines.

As part of her study, she had couples flip the hot switches on topics like money and in-laws.

Graham found that use of reasoning words during a fight controlled cytokines. So reasoning may be better than fighting, for your health and relationship – and:

[Jennifer Graham speaks] "Expressing yourself clearly and thinking deeply about conflict may also help lead to a resolution of the situation."

The study in the journal Health Psychology was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Learn more at hhs.gov.

HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I’m Ira Dreyfuss.

Last revised: December, 16 2009

"Living with Brain Injury: Survivor and Family Issues" Presentation by Dr. Nelson Escobar, M.D.

2009-11-12T07:39:00.000-08:00

Courtesy: Dr. Nelson Escobar, M.D. Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Program at Marianjoy Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, High Hopes Brain Injury Support Group which meets on the 2nd Tuesday every month, 6:30-8:00 p.m. sponsored by Dr. Nancy Devereux, M.D., Tel. 630-909-8607

York Township Community Center in Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois USA

2009-10-13T11:09:00.000-07:00

The DuPage Health Department encouraged Senior Citizens to Take Free Flu Shots last Friday, October 9, 2009. Also, the Yorktown Community Center was encouraged to use Disinfecting Wipes over Door Handles, Bars, and Door Plates to prevent germs and bacteria from thriving over public access door and facilities in Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois USA.

Lombard Policeman Fractured Right Toe on the foot of Gardenia C. Hung causing a hammertoe and a pigeon foot in the Village of Lombard, without reason

2009-06-15T08:11:00.000-07:00

30th Anniversary for High Hopes Traumatic Brain Injury Supporter Henry W. Hochstatter for Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital Franciscan Healthcare

2009-06-04T13:57:00.000-07:00

My name is Henry W. Hochstatter.
I am a TBI supporter for High Hopes at
Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital.
The month of June in 2009 reminds me
of the first time I attended the High Hopes
Support Group for Traumatic Brain Injury,
since my tragic accident with a semi-truck on
March 23, 1979, along Addison Road, in Addison,
Illinois.

I am the founding member of the High Hopes TBI
Support Group at Marianjoy in Wheaton, since
Dr. Jay Subaru established the High Hopes
Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group at
Marianjoy Rehabilitation
Hospital.

I was still in a wheelchair at the time, so I was
wheeled over to the Cafeteria to attend the first
High Hopes TBI meeting, downstairs at the Marianjoy
Healthcare Center. The first High Hopes meeting
started at 7:00 p.m. in the evening, on the second
Tuesday, in June 1979.

High Hopes TBI Support Group promotes hope for the
future, while thinking of positive thoughts and ideas
for recovery. To me, High Hopes represents a TBI support
group in hopes that TBI patients do better on
their journey to recovery.

Since my traumatic brain injury in 1979, I had broken
my armcast on the right side at Marianjoy. I remember
being on a wheelchair and learning to walk outside,
while watching the mallard ducks outside the Marianjoy
Rehabilitation Center. In 2009, I celebrate my 30th anniversary
from recovery of a traumatic brain injury with treatment and
rehabilitation at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Healthcare Center
in Wheaton, Illinois, USA.

American Red Cross National CPR/AED Awareness June 1st through June 7th, 2009

2009-05-31T11:52:00.000-07:00

The American Red Cross is celebrating National CPR/AED Awareness during the first week of June 2009 and the American Heart Association is sponsoring CPR/AED for Friends and Family to Live and Learn through training by certified CPR Instructors in the Villa Park Fire Department.

Infant CPR and First Aid for Choking for Friends and Family sponsored by the American Heart Association in Villa Park

2009-05-31T11:50:00.000-07:00

Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation and Automated Electronic Defibrillator

2009-05-31T11:47:00.000-07:00

The first week of June 1st, 2009 through June 7, 2009 is National CPR/AED Awareness Week, sponsored by the American Red Cross.

DuPage Medical Group Health Screening for Peripheral Arterial Disease

2009-05-18T08:30:00.000-07:00

Illinois Representative Sandy Pihos and Friends for the 42nd Congresional District invited DuPage Medical Group Screening Seniors for Peripheral Arterial Disease at the 2009 Senior Health Fair at York Township, May 1st, 2009. Courtesy Photo by Gardenia C. Hung.

HHS HealthBeat (April 09, 2009)

2009-04-09T11:47:00.000-07:00

More Cancer from SmokingListen to Tip Interested?
Take the Next Step

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I’m Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.

What cancer does smoking cause? Lung cancer is one clear answer. And some folks add others, such as cancers of the throat and the esophagus.

But a researcher thinks this may underestimate the impact of cancer. Bruce Leistikow of the University of California, Davis, bases that on a review of data on men living in Massachusetts from 1979 to 2003. He used lung cancer as a benchmark:

[Bruce Leistikow speaks] "Lung cancer rates, and the death rate from all other cancer moved together like Siamese twins would move together – indicating that those changes had the same source."

He suspects smoking caused almost three quarters of all male cancer deaths in Massachusetts. That’s about twice what researchers thought.

The study in the journal BMC Cancer was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Learn more at hhs.gov.

HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I’m Ira Dreyfuss.

Last revised: April, 09 2009

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

2009-03-23T10:39:00.000-07:00

A Bowlful of Nutrition: Vegetables, Fruit, Grains, Protein-laden Antioxidants for Health, Exercise, and Fitness at the Flat Top Grill in Lombard

2008-10-12T12:57:00.000-07:00

Daily requirements of walking exercise and fitness take up a lot of our energy everyday. We have to compensate the loss by replenishing our nutrition with a balanced diet and a regular bowl full of vegetables, fruit, grains, nuts, with protein-laden antioxidants. Humans consume antioxidants in the form of supplemental vitamins, minerals, and amino acids which protect human cells, like “atoms”, with “extra” electrons, surrounding the cells. The human cell is an atom consisting of two (2) paired electrons. When toxins like air pollution, second-hand smoking, stress, sunlight, pesticides, chemicals, germs, bacteria, and virus-acquired disease, release “free” radicals into the human body, the same free radicals damage human cells and cellular growth. The human cells that make up our body are composed of many atoms. When toxins attack human cells, one of the electrons is destroyed. A human cell missing an atom is called a “free” radical. In numbers, these free radicals can alter or destroy human cells causing disease. Damaged human cells cause or contribute to premature aging, sickness, diseases, and other terminal illnesses. During Antioxidant Level Screening, Dr. George Michalopoulos, D.C. explains that humans age, get sick, and acquire diseases without the required nutritional antioxidants and supplementation from vitamins, amino acids, and minerals—using the Pharmanex BioPhotonic Scanner™ S2, the World’s First Non-Invasive Antioxidant Measuring Tool. Vegetables, fruit, grains, and protein-laden with antioxidants protect human cell growth surrounding the atoms in the human body to give up free radicals, in order to eliminate the harmful effects of toxins and neutralize damage to cell growth, to reduce the human risk of disease, with healthy food, and wholesome nutrition. A bowlful of stir-fried vegetables, fruit, grains, and protein cooked at the Flat Top Grill satisfies the daily nutritional balanced requirement for human exercise and fitness routines during walking, running, jogging, sports training, contact athletic activities, the Chicago Marathon races, and other competitive team sports.

The Flat Top Grill at the Court Yard in Lombard welcomes everyone with a large bowl of nutrition full of vegetables, fruit, grains, and protein seasoned with your choice of sauces, accompanied by a fresh whole egg, and garnished with your favorite toppings—nuts, crispy noodles, sesame seeds, ginger, or additional spices to taste. Here’s your recipe for a large bowlful of wholesome nutrition for health, exercise, and fitness.

You can make your own stir-fry by selecting white rice, organic brown rice, yellow Chinese noodles, or Thai rice noodles. Add salad greens, fresh baby spinach leaves, bean sprouts, soy beans “edamame”, tofu in a variety of forms like tempeh, plain or seasoned, spicy, large green pea pods, crispy, sweet, and crunchy, kernels of yellow corn, fresh sliced mushrooms, radishes, water chestnuts, large chunks of sweet, juicy pineapple, chopped green onions, and fresh parsley to taste. Top all your stir-fry ingredients with your choice of savory sauces by ladlefuls: soy sauce, black bean and garlic sauce, pomegranate dressing with fresh sliced basil, chopped, peanut sauce, plum sauce, sweet and sour sauce, and other varieties of spicy sauces, etc. Then pick your protein for the small bowl, ranging from freshly cut chicken, pork, beef or calamari squid—sometimes you can find fresh shrimp or fish by selection. Add one whole fresh egg. Then top with your choice of seasonings, sesame seeds, powdered ginger, red pepper flakes, and/or crispy noodles, chopped nuts, etc. Leave your table number and name on a wooden stick and wait for the chef to cook your stir-fry meal over the Flat Top Grill. Then the waitress will bring the large bowl to the table for you to enjoy this wholesome and healthy food with a tall glass of iced water or your choice of beverages. Lunch is all you can eat in a large bowl, unlimited, starting at 12:30 PM.

The Flat Top Grill, at the Yorktown Center Mall in Lombard, always remembers your first visit with a special anniversary greeting by Email and sends you a complimentary stir-fry coupon for breakfast, lunch or dinner, annually, as a courtesy from the Flat Top Grill. You can subscribe to the Flat Top Grill Email news, events, and promotions at the web site http://www.flattopgrill.com/ or you can visit the Flat Top Grill and ask the manager or the staff for a customer sign-in form. Come in for a friendly greeting with a smile and a big welcome for a large stir-fry meal in a bowl.

Regular walkers who practice exercise and fitness on their way to the Yorktown Center Mall can average from one mile to six miles or more, walking across the shopping center and around the Court Yard at the second level in Lombard. A good walk to the Flat Top Grill at the Court Yard takes you across Forever 21 and to the front door of the Flat Top Grill. Get A Bowlful of Nutrition Vegetables, Fruit, Grains, Protein-laden Antioxidants For Health, Exercise, and Fitness at the Flat Top Grill—located at 305 Yorktown Center in Lombard. Call 630-652-3700 for large groups and parties.

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2008-10-10T10:37:00.000-07:00

Greetings! My name is Gardenia C. Hung, M.A., B.A., Communications Consultant and provider of Medical Translation Services from English into Spanish, and/or French, on behalf of Communications, Languages & Culture, Inc.--a small business. I am offering consulting communications services for medical translation to the community upon request, for reasonable rates. Do you require Medical Translation services from English into Spanish? or Health Communications translated from Spanish into English? I can virtually discuss with you collaboration opportunities for Medical Translations of your health communication needs.

I can be reached directly via Email , fax 1-702-925-0527, or psychically.

Please consider Communications, Languages & Culture, Inc. for your Medical Translation of health communications from English into Spanish or vice versa. Translation rates are reasonable and negotiable per assignment. Delivered via Email or fax, as soon as possible.

I would like to work with you and the community as a communications consultant in English, Spanish and/or French. Contact via Email, fax or psychically.

Advocacy Health Care Training by DuPage OWL

2008-10-08T12:15:00.000-07:00

Seeking Justice in Health Care sponsored by the Campaign for Better Health Care, the Voice of Illinois Consumers.

The DuPage Area Older Women’s League, OWL presents “Health Care Advocacy Training” on November 15, 2008, from 12:30 pm to 2:20 pm at the Community Bank, 1111 Warren Avenue, in Downers Grove, Illinois 601515—one block west from the Main St. METRA Station. You can attend this health care training and bring a friend. Contact Kathy by Email: kathyinlisle@comcast.net or call (630) 971-0661.

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

2008-09-30T07:22:00.000-07:00

Health Literacy Improvement
Health Literacy is the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Tools for improving health literacy
Sample Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy
Quick Guide to Health Literacy
Quick Guide to Health Literacy and Older Adults
Toolkit for Trainers: Teaching Older Adults How to Find Health Information on the Internet
PowerPoint Slides
Health Literacy chapter in Communicating Health: Priorities and Strategies for Progress
Government resources
AHRQ Health Literacy and Cultural Competency Web site
HRSA Health Literacy Web page
NIH Health Literacy Web sites
Clear Communication: an NIH Health Literacy Initiative
NLM's Medline Plus: Health Literacy
National Library of Medicine Health Literacy Bibliography
National Library of Medicine's Search & Health Literacy Information Resources
National Network of Libraries of Medicine: Health Literacy
Office of Minority Health: Think Cultural Health
Plain Language Web site
Usability Web site
NAL: Health Literacy Resource List for Educators March 2007 [PDF - 155 kb]
Reports and research
Health Literacy Town Hall Meeting Notes (2007-2008)
Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Improving Health Literacy (2006)
Prevention Report: Focus on Health Literacy (2005)
Plain Language: A Promising Strategy for Clearly Communicating Health Information and Improving Health Literacy (2005)
Literacy and Health Outcomes (AHRQ) (2004)
A Prescription to End Confusion (IOM) (2004)
The Health Literacy of America's Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy
Presentation of NAAL Health Literacy Results, Dr. Grover J. (Russ) Whitehurst
A First Look at the Literacy of America's Adults in the 21st Century
Key Concepts and Features of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)
Assessing the nation's health literacy: Key concepts and findings of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (2008) [PDF - 2.0 MB]
The Invisible Barrier: Literacy and Its Relationship with Oral Health [PDF - 1.1 MB]
Healthy People 2010 Chapter 11, Health Communication (2000)
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