MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                                                                                                                July 23, 2010

                                                                                                                Peggy Stebbins, 444-2135

   Linde Hoff is the new community education director for St. Peter’s Behavioral Health Unit.  She brings more than 20 years of marketing and business development experience to the program.

   Following her studies in marketing communications from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Hoff worked for various companies in both corporate and consulting roles, such as Bayer Corporation, Eli Lilly, Astra Zeneca, and St. Luke’s Hospitals in both the United States and Europe. 

   St. Peter’s 23-bed adult and geriatric inpatient hospitalization program is for short-term acute treatment for individuals 18 years and older. The inpatient hospitalization program involves stabilizing the crisis that led to hospitalization, providing a thorough evaluation, developing an individualized treatment plan, and coordinating care in a warm, supportive, and secure environment that provides 24-hour nursing care.

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