Bolingbrook 11-1-12

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Renal care center opens in November By Laura Katauskas Staff Reporter

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or 27-year-old Robert Pace, walking into the new state of the art dialysis center in Bolingbrook meant more than just reclining chairs, flat screen televisions and fireplaces. For him, the center means a better quality of life as he awaits a kidney transplant. Three times a week, four hours a day, on average, patients like Pace receive dialysis treatment to clear his kidney of toxins which it can no longer do on its own. Pace would normally have to drive to Naperville in an overcrowded facility with broken equipment at the likes of 5:30 a.m. to receive treatment. Eager to catch some extra needed sleep and spend time with his four-year-old son,

he said the new center is close enough for him to walk to if he had to. The growing need for such a center in the BolingbrookRomeoville area was prevalent with only one center in the Will County vicinity and the reason doctors Mohammed Ahmed and Anis Rouf pursued a new facility that would take care to a different level. The group contacted U.S. Renal Care on a mission to offer another option for renal, explaining that competition normally drives increased care. A year later, the company is now leasing space at 396 Remington Boulevard, near Adventist Medical Hospital, and have invested 2.5 million in the project. “These patients have to endure this treatment for 12

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Valley View to revise grading scale By Laura Katauskas Staff Reporter

“This offers them a choice they didn’t have before…We have to do right by out patients.”

In an effort to “level the playing field” with surrounding school districts, the Valley View School District revised its grading scale to reflect different percentages for letter grades at the beginning of this school year. According to district officials, students’ grades were in misalignment with the most common grading scale, causing a potential negative affect on students. For example, in an advanced placement course at Valley View, 91 percent was

See RENAL CARE, page 2

See GRADING, page 2

Laura Katauskas/Bugle Staff

Dr. Mohammed Ahmed gives Robert Pace a tour of the facility.

hours a week—we want to make it as comfortable as it can be and make dialysis easier for the patient,” said Ahmed, who serves as the medical director.

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