knowing that if someone wasn’t seen here, they probably wouldn’t receive care at all.” Catalano’s clinic is a Federally Qualified
Health Center. It receives some government money so it can help all patients, regardless of their health insurance status or ability to pay. “We do a lot of outreach and make sure com- munity members know we’re here for them and that if they can’t afford it, they can still get excellent quality care for little money,” Catalano says. She adds that making care available to poor
patients is the right thing to do, but it’s also to society’s advantage. “If I don’t take care of things like diabetes and asthma now, patients will end up in hospitals, and the cost to society becomes even greater.” Catalano says her job can be challenging and
frustrating. She sees patients who can’t afford a $4 medication. But there are also many rewards. She recently saw a woman who had lost her job and health insurance and was worried about an abnormal mammogram. The woman thought she wouldn’t be able to follow up on the test results, but Catalano reassured her that she can receive quality care. She says it’s true that doctors practicing in
clinics like hers make less money than many doctors who have private practices in higher-in- come areas. “But we make an acceptable salary, and there are non-financial rewards of taking care of these patients,” she says. Last year, the Stritch School of Medicine
honored Catalano as an Alumna of the Year for Early Career Achievement, “for living up to the Stritch precept that every patient has the right to quality, evidence-based health care.” She says her experience at Loyola—both
during medical school and her residency at Loyola University Medical Center—helped give her the desire to serve those with fewer re- sources. She took an immersion trip to St. Lucia, where she cared for people living in poverty. “That trip helped prepare me to take care of the underserved. It was a wonderful experience for a medical student,” she says. Her Loyola education also stressed taking
the patients’ perspective into account, which she says has helped her in her work today. Catalano says she plans to stay put in Rose-
land. “I believe in this medicine. This is where I belong,” she says. “I’ve been doing it for more than 10 years, and I see myself doing it 10 years from now.”
Community service recognized
COMMUNITY SERVICE
A Loyola volunteer cleans the pews at St. Procopius in Pilsen.
Loyola has once again been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for 2013. The distinction highlights the role colleges and universities play in solving community problems and placing more students on a lifelong path of civic engagement by recognizing institutions that achieve meaningful, measure- able outcomes in the communities they serve. The Center for Experiential Learning, several stories of which are featured on page 24, is highlighted in contributing to this distinction. Last year, service-learning courses enrolled 2,780 Loyola students (over 25 percent of the undergraduate population) who com- pleted over 106,914 hours of service in and around Chicago.
HEALTH SCIENCES DIVISION
The five-story, 227,000-square- foot structure on the Health Sciences Campus will promote research and col- laboration among medical researchers and practitioners.
New center promotes sharing research
Groundbreaking for the new Center for Translational Re- search and Education (CTRE) on the Health Sciences Cam- pus is set for this summer, with completion in early 2016. The CTRE, a collaboration of Loyola and Trinity Health, will encourage teamwork across the Health Sciences Division in flexible spaces that facilitate collaboration. Research programs will be linked to Loyola University Health System clinical priorities. The CTRE will also play a central role in the development of a University-wide Institute of Public Health. The structure will accommodate about 500 scientists, including principal investigators, postdoctoral trainees, fellows, graduate students, nursing students, and medical students involved in research.
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