Terry McGuire retired July 1 as senior vice president of mission integration at Felician Services of Chicago. He has worked in Catholic health care for over three decades.
McGuire held mission leader roles at Alexian Brothers Health System of Arlington Heights, Ill., from 1983 to 2001; at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare of Glendale, Wis., from 2001 to 2009; and at Felician Services from 2009 until his retirement. He's served on CHA's Mission Leaders Advisory Committee, and the Catholic Collaborative Refugee National Partners Committee, which disbanded. He is an ongoing member of CHA's Sponsor and Canon Law Committee.
McGuire was part of a team that received the 1992 CHA Achievement Citation for the Catholic Charities Physician Referral Service, a partnership of Catholic Charities of Chicago and Alexian Brothers Health System. The referral service, which is no longer in operation, linked medically underserved patients to health care providers.
McGuire will remain active in the health ministry as a Wheaton Franciscan sponsor, as a coach for Chicago-based Presence Health's formation program, and as a faculty member and mentor for a lay leader formation program with the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm of Germantown, N.Y.
He is a deacon in the Archdiocese of Chicago and teaches a leadership course at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill.
McGuire said he looks forward to spending time with his baby granddaughter and traveling with his wife, Kathleen McGowan.
McGuire said of his ministry career: "I've loved every moment of it, and I've loved the people I've mentored along the way."
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