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Willingboro, New Jersey (PRWEB) April 23, 2012

Cheri Cowperthwait, CEO of Lourdes Hospital specialist of southern New Jersey (LSH), and Ed Cooper, president and CEO of sharpness Health, LP, announced the completion of expansion of LSH and upcoming ribbon cutting ceremony. The ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 26, 2012 from 17:00-7: 12:00.

LSH is a long term acute care hospital (LTACH) that treats medically-complex and ventilator dependent patients who need specialized hospital care level. The expansion project runs to December 2007, increasing capacity from 30 to 69 hospital beds more than doubled in size. LSH is the highest acuity hospital of its kind in the country and recognizes that patients over 35 regional hospitals.

With a huge need for LTACHs in this region alone, many patients and families may have to travel out of state to receive this level of professional care. It is our privilege now become able to serve and care for more patients in need, said Mrs. Cowperthwait.

Mr. Cooper agrees. We are very excited by this wonderful expansion, he said. Over the years, the hospital runs established itself through its exceptional quality of care as the provider of choice throughou region. This expansion will enable the hospital, its staff and its doctors Eve to be more to the community. We are honored to partner with the Health System and Lourdes are proud of what has been achieved by staff at LSH.

This is an exciting time for LSH. The hospital was just named Best Hospital in New Jersey by the Greater Philadelphia Media the best place to work awards in 2012. The hospital was also recognized by the Burlington County Times in partnership with the community by promoting and providing well over 100 additional jobs to the surrounding community.

MORE ABOUT THE HOSPITAL southern New Jersey:

LSH is a partnership between the Health Lourdes Health System and sharpness, LP. LSH, a hospital within a hospital, is the first LTACH in southern New Jersey and locatedat the campus of Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County. Lourdes Health System was recently ranked among the best hospitals by U.S. News and World Report and is recognized by Healthgrades as the 2012 Americas 100 Best Hospitals for cardiac care.

sharpness Health, LP is a privately owned long-term acute care hospital company, founded in 2001 with headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sharpness currently owns and operates five LTACHs in New Jersey, Ohio and Texas. Moreover, sharpness provides financial and management services to hospitals in New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and Arizona.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) April 24, 2012

Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. Announced today that Anne McDonald Milling, a former president and Sustainer of the Year Junior League of New Orleans was awarded the 2012 Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award for the life of crime, both within its league and within the Greater New Orleans community. Award was made in 90 AJLIs annual conference in San Francisco on April 20.

Mary Harriman Award is awarded to junior league members whose Leadership as the 111-year mission, organization, vision and values. Past winners include former Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor, Martha Rivers Ingram, chairman of Vanderbilt University Board of Trustees and noted philanthropist and patron of the arts; Karen Cullen Luke, lifelong civic leaders in Oklahoma City and vice chairman of the Committee that built Oklahoma National Memorial and Museum, and last years winner, Shawsie Branton, life long community activist and volunteer in Kansas City, Missouri.

AJLI President delly Beekman said Anna is nothing less than the center. She is passionate and disciplined volunteer whos never met a Noble cause she was not behind: a reformer who is relentlessly Renegade dedicated to health and welfare of its community, and persuasive advocate who uses her people skills, her network, her voice to make a positive impact on her and Enduring beloved city of New Orleans.

. Milling advocacy community faces Covered everything from famine to AIDS, good government ethics reform, Coastal Restoration of diversity and inclusion. She came to national prominence in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with the now famous initiative called Women of the Storm. The cultural, economic and socially diverse group of 130 women, Ms. Milling traveled to Washington to extend personal invitations to members of Congress to tour the destruction firsthand storms. Born January witnessed the magnitude of the tragedy, these legislative leaders Approved finally end the Housing Rehabilitation for critical initiative for the citizens of New Orleans. The women of storm movement continues today with a focus on drawing the Encyclopedia of Congress, media and opinion leaders to the needs of New Orleans, South Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award

In 1901, 19-year-old rookie with a social conscience 80 of her peers gathered to improve the living conditions of poor immigrants in New York Citys Lower East Side, forming the first Junior League. Eighty-nine years later, in 1990, the AJLI Board of Directors created the Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award as a way for face recognition Junior League member volunteer efforts embody Mary Whose Harrimans pioneering spirit, her sense of social responsibility and its ability to motivate others to share their talents through effective volunteer action. It servesa today as a link to our rich heritage and tradition Mary runs.

The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc.

Founded in 1901 by the New Yorker and social activism pioneer, Mary Harriman, the junior leagues are nonprofit charitable organizations of women, developed as civic leaders, creating demonstrable community impact.

Today, the Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. (AJLI) consists of more than 155,000 in 293 Junior Leagues Women throughou Canada, Mexico, UK and USA. Together, they represent one of the larges, most effective volunteer organizations in the world.