Covenant News

Emergency Room Documentary to be Rebroadcast Thursday

CHICAGO, IL (July 10, 2002) - Barbara Suplit of Congregational Covenant Church in Waltham, Massachusetts, will be featured in part two of a six-part documentary that airs Thursday evening at 9 p.m. (CDT) on Chicago's WTTW-Channel 11. It is a repeat of the episode shown Tuesday evening, and can be seen nationally on Public Broadcasting System (PBS) affiliates.

Suplit, a graduate of North Park University (then College), is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner. She appears in the documentary, "Children's Hospital," which features stories about some of the young patients at the hospital. She works as a psychiatric consultation liaison in the emergency room at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Filming for the series, a co-production of Oregon Public Broadcasting and internationally known Lion Television, began in August 2001. The reality-based program follows the day-to-day activities of the hospital. The first episode was shown nationally on July 2.

Before beginning work at Children's Hospital in April 2001, Suplit earned a masters degree from the University of North Carolina in primary care pediatrics and worked in Raleigh, North Carolina, as a nurse practitioner. She headed the medical staff at CHIC2K, the denomination's triennial high school event in Knoxville, Tennessee, two years ago.

Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago was created in 1882 as an eight-bed facility housed in a converted cottage. Today, the hospital is one of the top pediatric facilities in the United States, according to U.S. News and World Report. Last year, Children's Hospital served more than 80,000 children, most of them patients under the age of 10 (about 75 percent of the total). The pediatric emergency department at Children's Hospital treats more than 40,000 kids annually, with more than 100 children arriving daily.

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