Bill Text: IL HR0931 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates William Ribbing, M.D. for receiving the 2022 Rural Physician Lifetime of Service Award and commends him for his compassion and dedication to his patients and for filling such a tremendous void in rural medicine over the past 45 years in Southern Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-11-15 - Resolution Adopted [HR0931 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HR0931-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate William Ribbing, | ||||||
4 | M.D. for receiving the 2022 Rural Physician Lifetime of | ||||||
5 | Service Award from the Illinois Rural Health Association; and
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6 | WHEREAS, One of the biggest healthcare challenges across | ||||||
7 | our nation is the shortage of physicians who practice in rural | ||||||
8 | settings; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Dr. Ribbing graduated from UHS/Chicago Medical | ||||||
10 | School in 1987; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Dr. Ribbing completed his residency in family | ||||||
12 | practice at Resurrection Medical Center in 1990; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Dr. Ribbing relocated to Anna and went to work | ||||||
14 | for Rural Health Inc., where he has made a huge impact on the | ||||||
15 | well-being of the region, seeing 20-30 patients daily since | ||||||
16 | 1990, and was responsible for bringing such specialty services | ||||||
17 | as women's health, cardiology, orthopedics, and behavioral | ||||||
18 | medicine to the area; and
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19 | WHEREAS, Dr. Ribbing has also been a huge asset to Union | ||||||
20 | County Hospital, where he served as president of the medical |
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1 | staff, as well as on its board of directors; and
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2 | WHEREAS, Dr. Ribbing guided efforts to successfully | ||||||
3 | address the rural opioid epidemic through the creation of the | ||||||
4 | Medicated Assisted Treatment Clinic, which has helped break | ||||||
5 | the cycle of addiction for many and improve the quality of life | ||||||
6 | in his community; and
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7 | WHEREAS, Dr. Ribbing has been a tireless advocate for the | ||||||
8 | advancement of the physician assistant profession, in order to | ||||||
9 | alleviate the physician shortage, and developed a partnership | ||||||
10 | with Southern Illinois University to serve as a training site | ||||||
11 | for physician assistants; he also successfully lobbied for the | ||||||
12 | ratio of physicians to physician assistants to be removed in | ||||||
13 | health professional shortage areas; and
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14 | WHEREAS, As an active member of the Society of Teachers of | ||||||
15 | Family Medicine and of the faculty of both the University of | ||||||
16 | Illinois College of Medicine and the SIU School of Medicine, | ||||||
17 | Dr. Ribbing has helped train countless medical students to | ||||||
18 | provide exceptional patient care; and
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19 | WHEREAS, In his "free time", Dr. Ribbing can be found | ||||||
20 | honing his culinary skills on an outdoor grill, fishing, | ||||||
21 | hunting, and debating whether he has a stronger allegiance to | ||||||
22 | Star Trek or Star Wars; therefore, be it
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1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
2 | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
3 | we congratulate William Ribbing, M.D. for receiving the 2022 | ||||||
4 | Rural Physician Lifetime of Service Award and commend him for | ||||||
5 | his compassion and dedication to his patients and for filling | ||||||
6 | such a tremendous void in rural medicine over the past 45 years | ||||||
7 | in Southern Illinois; and be it further
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8 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
9 | presented to Dr. Ribbing as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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