Jennifer Sines is the new pharmacy director at Illinois Valley Community Hospital.
A 2000 graduate of Creighton University’s School of Pharmacy, Sines
has worked full-time as a pharmacist at IVCH since 2003. Before then she
had worked holidays and summers at the hospital as a pharmacy tech and
later as a supplemental pharmacist. Sines also worked for a time as a
pharmacist for Osco Drugs and the Princeton Walmart.
Sines is an Illinois Valley native and a graduate of LaSalle-Peru High
School. She was instrumental in starting the LaSalle County P2D2 prescription
drug disposal program.
Retiring as IVCH pharmacy director—a post he had held for more than
20 years—is Jim Rietgraf, who had been a pharmacist at the hospital
for 40 years.