Mercy Health Foundation releases a new Oshkosh game
07 / 17 / 2006
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Maria Nelson, Media Relations
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OSHKOSH, Wis. – The city of Oshkosh is now available in a board game.
Oshkosh is Game, the City of Oshkosh Property Trading Game, lets players buy and sell the deeds to popular Oshkosh businesses. The game also features Oshkosh landmarks and organizations.
KATY Consultants, Inc., Manitowoc, and Mercy Health Foundation teamed up to create this colorful board game. Janet Pavelack, annual giving coordinator for the Mercy Health Foundation, states, “We thought that the game would be an opportunity to reach out to business community members that we might not otherwise reach.”
All proceeds raised from game sales will go to the expansion of the Michael D. Wachtel Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center. The foundation would like to raise $300,000 for the cancer center expansion. Proceeds from the game sale play an important role in fundraising efforts, Pavelack says.
Oshkosh is Game is a full Wisconsin production. Castle-Pierce Printers, Oshkosh, and FRV Group, Neenah, printed the games. Oshkosh is Game is available for $29.95 and can be purchased from the Oshkosh area Festival Foods, Morton Pharmacy, EAA and the gift shop at Mercy Medical Center.
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For the Editor:
Affinity Health System, a faith-based regional health care network, is the Fox Valley’s second-largest employer, according to the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce & Industry. For the fourth consecutive year, Affinity has been named one of the nation’s top 64 health systems based on clinical performance according to Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of health care. For ten consecutive years, Affinity Health System has been named to the SDI (formerly Verispan) Integrated Health Network Top 100, an annual assessment of the 100 most highly integrated health care networks in the nation. Both St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton and Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh rank among the top 1 percent of hospitals nationwide in terms of quality and efficiency, as determined by the 2007 Premier | CareScience Select practice National Quality Award. Members of Affinity include Mercy Medical Center and Mercy Health Foundation, Oshkosh; St. Elizabeth Hospital and the St. Elizabeth Hospital Foundation, Appleton; Affinity Medical Group, a regional network of 25 family practice and specialty clinics – 22 of which are recognized as NCQA Level III medical homes, the highest level of recognition – in 14 communities; Calumet Medical Center, Chilton; and Affinity Occupational Health.