The Peoria Woman - February 2008

Quality Quest for Health
As President and CEO of Quality Quest for Health, Gail M. Amundson, MD, FACP, leads the organization’s mission to achieve exceptional patient service and outcomes by catalyzing healthcare transformation. Quality Quest helps foster a strategic partnership between Caterpillar, Inc. and OSF HealthCare which is transforming healthcare in central Illinois. Dr. Amundson’s main goal is to promote partnerships between physicians and patients, dramatically enhance the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery, and improve the health of the community in central Illinois.
Features

Peoria Profile

League of Women Voters
by Amy Groh
The League influences public policy through education and advocacy, because, as their website proclaims, “democracy is not a spectator sport!”
Career
Lifestyle

The Art of Happiness

by Suzette Boulais
ArtsPartners of Central Illinois
How do we find our own individual “must”?
Health

Postpartum Depression

by Polly Kocher
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center
Postpartum depression, formerly thought of as sadness or the “blues” that follows childbirth, is now recognized as much more complex and can be present during a woman’s pregnancy as well as following birth.

Worker's Compensation: A Physician's Perspective

by Jeffrey F. Traina, M.D.
Advanced Orthopedics
Employees have the right to choose the physician who will evaluate and treat them. However, the treatment must be approved by the workers’ compensation carrier.
Finance