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Covenant Nurse Featured in Documentary Airing Tonight
CHICAGO, IL (July 9, 2002) - Barbara Suplit of Congregational Covenant Church in
Waltham, Massachusetts, will be featured in part two of a six-part
documentary that airs tonight at 9 p.m. (CDT) on Chicago's WTTW-Channel 11.
Suplit, a graduate of North Park University (then College), serves as a
psychiatric emergency nurse as part of her duties at Children's Memorial
Hospital in Chicago. She is featured in that role as part of "Children's
Hospital," which features stories about some of the patients at the
hospital.
Filming for the series, a co-production of Oregon Public Broadcasting and
internationally known Lion Television, began in August 2001. The
reality-based program follows the day-to-day
activities of the hospital. The first episode was shown nationally on July
2.
Before beginning work at Children's Hospital in April 2001, Suplit earned a
masters degree from the University of North Carolina in primary care
pediatrics and worked in Raleigh, North Carolina, as a nurse practitioner.
She headed the medical staff at CHIC2K, the denomination's
triennial high school event in Knoxville, Tennessee, two years ago.
Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago was created in 1882 as an eight-bed
facility housed in a converted cottage. Today, the hospital is one of the
top pediatric facilities in the United States, according to U.S. News
and World Report. Last year, Children's Hospital served more than
80,000 children, most of them patients under the age of 10 (about 75
percent of the total).
Suplit is part of the pediatric emergency department at Children's
Hospital, which treats more
than 40,000 kids annually, with more than 100 children arriving daily.
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