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February 28, 2005
Silver Cross Hospital Website wins international award
Silver Cross Hospital recently received the 2005 Standard of Excellence WebAward in the healthcare providers category from the Web Marketing Association (WMA). The international award recognizes the Joliet hospital’s revamped website (www.silvercross.org) as one of the most effective websites on the Internet today.
Redesigned in 2004 by Chicago’s Imaginary Landscape under the direction of Tracy Simons, Director of Community Relations/Marketing at Silver Cross Hospital, and Jesse Rojo, Director of Information Systems at Silver Cross Hospital, the site features online class registration, physician referral and a web nursery. Patients can also pre-register for tests or procedures and take a virtual tour of the hospital’s new emergency department scheduled to open in 2007.
"The WebAward competition is one of the ways leading web professionals demonstrate the effectiveness of their web development," said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association, an independent organization founded in 1997 to evaluate and recognize standards of excellence on the World Wide Web.
Now in its ninth year, WebAwards is the premier annual award competition that judges website development against an ever increasing Internet standard and against peer sites within their industry. Silvercross.org was one of more than 1,500 website entries in 95 categories from 22 countries. The WebAwards focus on the entire website, with particular emphasis on the creativity and functionality of the overall interactive experience. The judges included nationally recognized members of the media, advertising executives, web site designers, corporate marketing executives, content providers and webmasters. To view a complete list of the winning web sites at www.webaward.org.
“We are pleased to be recognized along with other prestigious service leaders around the world such as Disney, Volkswagen and Nike,” says Paul Pawlak, President/CEO of Silver Cross Hospital. “At Silver Cross, we have made a strong commitment to continually enhance our clinical and service quality by improving and adapting advanced technology processes.”
Silver Cross was also recognized earlier this year by Solucient as a 100 Top Hospital, the American Hospital Association as one of the 25 Most Improved Wired Hospitals, and the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers as one of America’s Friendliest Hospitals. Since 1895, the Joliet hospital has served the residents of Chicago’s southwest suburbs through the “Silver Cross Experience”. Exceptional care isn’t unusual. It’s simply the way you should be treated. For more information, visit www.silvercross.org or call (815) 740-1100.