What People Are Saying About the Urban Health Initiative
"It is with defined purpose that we collaborate with our neighboring academic center, the University of Chicago Medical Center, to enhance our community health network. Participating in building this Urban Health Initiative model is our responsibility as a health care system and an extension of the Mercy Mission we began on the South Side of Chicago 156 years ago."
Sister Sheila Lyne, RSM
President & CEO
Mercy Hospital & Medical Center
"The University of Chicago Medical Center and Access Community Health Network (ACCESS) share a common objective: to build a partnership that increases access to a continuum of high quality primary and specialty care services for South Side residents. Our strategic partnership with the Medical Center is focused on expanding patient care resources as well as on broadening teaching and research opportunity."
Linda Diamond Shapiro
Vice President, External Affairs
Access Community Health Network
"At Near North Health Service Corporation (NNHSC), we are excited to be a part of the South Side Health Collaborative in building a system that links ED patients who lack a medical home for their primary care needs. We will continue to work together to improve and enhance the health of each patient by focusing on community-oriented primary care.
As a Federally Qualified Health Clinic collaborating with multiple providers, we hope to continue offering primary healthcare, social services, health promotion activities, and disease prevention programs that will identify underlying causes of major health problems and develop community-based, prevention oriented solutions to address those problems. By working together due to limited resources, collaboratively we will improve overall health outcomes and reduce health disparities."
Berneice Mills-Thomas
Near North Health Service Corporation (NNHSC)
"We applaud the University of Chicago Medical Center Urban Health Initiative and the sizable investment you are making. If you are successful, in our humble opinion, you will have "moved the needle" from a sick care system to a true health care system for some of the most vulnerable among us."
Ron J. Anderson, MD
Parkland Health & Hospital System
Dallas, Texas
"…Seeking to free up beds to take more complicated cases like organ transplants or brain surgeries, the medical center's CEO, James Madara, is forging alliances to treat the rising number of poor patients needing routine care. While the effort is aimed at stemming the tide of these patients coming through its own doors, U of C also is helping to solve a growing health care crisis on the South Side…"
"U of C Seeking Cure for South Side Poor"
Crain’s Chicago Business
March 31, 2008
"…we believe the university hospital's efforts to essential outsource non-urgent medical problems to neighborhood clinics is good health care policy, with the potential to become a model for the nation. If done right, it could help contain the escalating costs of medicine that burden all Americans while providing quality primary medical care for the poor and uninsured..."
Chicago Sun-Times Editorial
August 27, 2008
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