Elmhurst Hospital named chamber's business of the year

ELMHURST - Elmhurst Hospital/Edward-Elmhurst Health will receive the A.J. "Toche" Terrones Business of the Year Award for 2020, the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry announced.

The award will be presented at the chamber's 102nd annual Awards Gala held from 7:30 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, in the Normandy Banquet Room at Elmhurst American Legion THB Post 187.

"The acute and lifesaving services that Elmhurst Hospital staff and the entire Edward-Elmhurst Health system provided to our community and across DuPage County during a worldwide health care pandemic cannot be overvalued," stated John R. Quigley, ECCI president and chief executive officer since 1999. "It's as simple as this: the lives of loved ones were saved by those willing to put their own lives at risk."

Elmhurst Hospital and Edward-Elmhurst Health's predecessor (Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare) merged with Naperville-based Edward Hospital and Health Services in 2013, and have been active chamber members since 1967. Currently, Colin Dalough, Edward-Elmhurst's manager of community and government relations, is an ECCI Director and a member of the Governmental Affairs Committee.