Second Annual Loud Pipes for Quiet Care Mystery Ride planned for July 19th

Town of Summit –  On July 19, Rogers Memorial Hospital and Oconomowoc’s Wisconsin Harley-Davidson will team up again to raise money for the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation via the Second Annual Loud Pipes for Quiet Care Mystery Ride.

Registration for the event begins at 10 a.m. on July 19 at Hal’s Harley-Davidson, 1925 S. Moorland Road,  New Berlin, and will end around 3 p.m. at Wisconsin Harley-Davidson, 1280 Blue Ribbon Drive, Oconomowoc. After a brief ceremony to award ride and raffle prizes, Wisconsin Harley-Davidson will host the Fourth Annual Cooney Cruise Bike and Classic Car Show, as well as a Oconomowoc Chamber of Commerce Street Dance, featuring live music, food, and beverages.

The first 300 registered riders will receive a ride pin and a commemorative gift.  The self-directed ride will cover about 100 miles through scenic southeastern Wisconsin.
For more information, visit Rogers Memorial Hospital’s website at www.rogershospital.org, or Wisconsin Harley Davidson at www.wishd.com.

Rogers Memorial Hospital is a nonprofit behavioral healthcare provider for children, adolescents, adults and older adults. The hospital is nationally recognized for its residential treatment centers including the Eating Disorder Center, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Center, The Child Center and the Child and Adolescent Center. Rogers Memorial also provides residential treatment services for chemical dependency and co-occurring OCD and other anxiety disorders. Inpatient and partial hospitalization services are also available. Rogers Memorial is licensed as a psychiatric hospital by the State of Wisconsin and accredited by the Joint Commission. It offers treatment programs at four Wisconsin locations: Oconomowoc, Milwaukee, Kenosha and Brown Deer. To learn more, please call (800) 767-4411 or visit us online at www.rogershospital.org.
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New addition part of continued integration of Milwaukee’s mental health care system

Milwaukee – A veritable round-table of the Milwaukee’s health-care community welcomed the new face of Rogers Memorial Hospital – Milwaukee at a grand-opening ceremony held on Tuesday, June 24 in West Allis.

“This building project is a tangible symbol of the journey  of how Rogers Memorial Hospital has grown to become a premier provider of behavioral health services in southeastern Wisconsin,” said William Petasnick, President & CEO, Froedtert Hospital and the Froedtert & Community Health System, who  served as the Master of Ceremonies for the event.

“Today is a celebration of what Rogers Memorial Hospital has accomplished so far. It’s also an acknowledgment that there is still much work to be done,” said Paul Mueller, Chief Operating Officer of Rogers Memorial.

The addition’s completion is part of Rogers Memorial’s continued commitment to provided an integrated healthcare solution for Milwaukee and Wisconsin residents.

Those in attendance at the grand opening were given a small keychain fashioned in the shape of a jig-saw puzzle.  “You each have a puzzle key chain to remind you that there are no easy answers to solving the healthcare delivery system.  We each are a key piece of the solution,” said Muller.

Speakers at the event included Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, Petasnick, Dan Devine, Mayor of the City of West Allis, Martha S. Rasmus, President and CEO of Mental Health America of Wisconsin, and several Rogers Memorial officials.

The new addition to Rogers Memorial Hospital in Milwaukee expands the hospital by roughly 26,000 square feet and creates new treatment spaces for the Rogers Memorial’s day treatment, and  partial treatment programs.

The facility also adds a new entryway and front reception to the hospital, creates private admissions suites, and accounts for the possibility of  future expansions. Rogers Memorial Hospital  – Milwaukee is located at 11101 W. Lincoln Avenue in West Allis.

Rogers Memorial Hospital is a nonprofit behavioral healthcare provider for children, adolescents, adults and older adults. The hospital is nationally recognized for its residential treatment centers including the Eating Disorder Center, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Center, The Child Center and the Child and Adolescent Center. Rogers Memorial also provides residential treatment services for chemical dependency and co-occurring OCD and other anxiety disorders. Inpatient and partial hospitalization services are also available.

Rogers Memorial is licensed as a psychiatric hospital by the State of Wisconsin and accredited by the Joint Commission. It offers treatment programs at four Wisconsin locations: Oconomowoc, Milwaukee, Kenosha and Brown Deer. To learn more, please call (800) 767-4411 or visit us online at www.rogershospital.org.

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Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation hosts annual Women’s Gathering Event

Oconomowoc, Wisc. - Women from all ages filled the Bluemound Country Club in Suburban Milwaukee County on June 3 as part of The Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation’s fourth Annual Women’s Gathering. Nearly 200 area women shared an afternoon luncheon learning and discussing the impact that eating disorders and eating disorders treatment has on adult women.

“As women we are meant to connect with each other,” said Tracy Cornella-Carlson, a full-time psychiatrist at Rogers Memorial Hospital, southeastern Wisconsin’s largest behavioral health service provider.
“At Rogers, we realize that eating disorders are no longer an adolescent phenomena. We now see and treat an increasing number of midlife women.”

In the United States, as many as 10 million females struggle with an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. Because of the secretiveness and shame often associated with eating disorders, many cases are probably not reported.

“Women in midlife may feel that they are ‘too old’ for this problem,” Cornella-Carlson told those at the Women’s Gathering. “Their eating disorder has become part of their life.” Many of these women don’t think that their life can be any different; their eating disorder has become a way of life for them and they don’t know how to change, she said.

“But treatment does work and life can be better,” Cornella-Carlson said.
Treatment may have saved the life of one woman at the gathering; Kathryn Lambrecht, in recovery from her eating disorder since April of 2007, also spoke to the women.

“It is possible to love and accept your body at any age and at any stage,” said Lambrecht. Working with Rogers Memorial, she and her husband Marc learned how to challenge her eating disorder, she said.  After working with Rogers Memorial staff, her own therapists and support groups, she is now sharing the story of her recovery.

“Without the treatment, I most likely would not be here today. The staff helped me to draw my wings, so that I could learn to fly again,” Lambrecht said.

In fact, anorexia, an eating disorder wherein its sufferers typically restrict caloric intake to dangerous levels, has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Approximately one in 10 women with anorexia will die of complications from the disorder.

The women at the gathering stood and applauded Lambrecht for sharing her story.

The event was designed around the idea that as a group, women have a great power. “I believe as women we are meant to connect with each other. to support, encourage and accept. I propose we use the body as a vehicle to connect. and do good things,” Cornella-Carlson said. “The focus should be on what they body can do, not how it looks.”

Put on annually by the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation, the Woman’s Gathering is part of the foundation’s mission to raise awareness and financial support for the patients and programs of Rogers Memorial. “Our donors are partners with us in this important mission, helping to save lives and change lives through their gifts and giving,” said Foundation Executive Marion Heinz.

Rogers Memorial Hospital offers specialized, intensive eating disorder treatment services for men, women, adolescents, and adults with co-occurring anxiety disorders.

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