John Hofer
Director of Marketing
715-735-4200, ext. 3116
jhofer@bamc.org

(Marinette, Wis.) – Artwork from area first through fifth graders will be displayed each month in this year’s Bay Area Medical Center 2005 Patient Room Calendar. Students from area schools entered drawings, all answering the question of this year’s theme: “What can you do to make someone feel special?” The entries ranged from visiting people in the hospital and helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina to giving someone a pumpkin.

This year’s twelve winners were Sue Ann Polzin, 3rd Grade – St. Thomas Aquinas Academy; Mitchell Harvey 3rd Grade – Menominee Catholic Central; Blake Borski and Lauren Zaharias, 1st Grade – Central Grade School; Emily Patrick 1st Grade – Daggett Elementary School; Breanna Brukardt, 3rd Grade – Lincoln Grade School; Maria Messer, Grade 4 – Trinity Luthern School; Margaret Michaels, Grade 2- Park School; Molly Jackson, 4th Grade – Blesch Intermediate School; Trevor Seewald 4th Grade - Coleman Elementary School; Danielle Blahnik, 4th Grade – Stephenson Elementary; Archie Britt, 2nd Grade St. Thomas Aquinas Academy; Destiny Van , 4th Grade – Blesch Intermediate School.

“This is always a great project that everyone at the hospital looks forward to,” said John Hofer, Marketing Director of Bay Area Medical Center “The children are able to express themselves and represent their school at the same time. The calendar has become a tradition here at BAMC, and we see this as a great way to work with our local school systems.”

Bay Area Medical Center’s patient room calendars have featured artwork by local students for the past nine years. Themes for the drawings change every year, but the quality and imagination each drawing contains remains high.

Much of the submitted artwork is on display at throughout Bay Area Medical Center. Copies of the calendar are available at the BAMC Auxiliary’s Gift Shop and Information Desk in Marinette and at the Stephenson Pharmacy in Stephenson.

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For the Editor:

Bay Area Medical Center is a 99-bed general acute care hospital located in Northeast Wisconsin. It includes a community primary/secondary care hospital, a 71,100 sq.-ft. outpatient surgery center, a primary care physician joint venture, and a radiation oncology joint venture. BAMC offers select, advanced medical services, with an emphasis on diagnostic radiology, rehabilitation services, ambulatory surgery, obstetrics, cancer treatment and urgent care. BAMC earned full accreditation for January 2003 through January 2006 by the Joint Commission on HealthCare Organizations.