Community Programs & Services

• Chicago Anchors for a Strong Economy (CASE)
• Community-Based Medical Education  
• Community Benefit Grants & Sponsorships
• Community Grand Rounds
• Southside Occupational Academy
• Student-Run Free Clinics

• Center for Asian Health Equity (CAHE)
• Community Connections of the Institute for Translational Medicine's (ITM) Community Cluster
• Faculty Fellows Program
• South Side Health and Vitality Studies (SSHVS)

• Bridgeport Free Clinic
• CommunityHealth Diagnostic Imaging Program: A charity care program providing diagnostic imaging services to CommunityHealth’s patients. The services, performed monthly, include imaging (MRI/CT), GI services (diagnostic colonoscopies/screening colonoscopies/EGDs), cardiac tests (stress tests, stress ECHOs), ultrasounds and ECHOs.
• Feed1st Program
• Fresh Start Caring for Kids Foundation
• Maria Shelter Clinic
• Pediatric Mobile Medical Unit
• Washington Park Children’s Free Clinic

• Community-Based Medical Education
  
• Student-Run Free Clinics

• Community Health Worker (CHW) Program: CHWs conduct home assessments and educational visits, serving as a liaison between patients' families and their primary care providers. Through these efforts, the CHWs are working across neighborhoods in Chicago's South Side to address social determinants of health (conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, etc. that affect a wide range of health outcomes and risks) as they relate to asthma and are assisting community members in their self-management of asthma. In addition to asthma, CHWs focus on other health issue areas as well.
• Pediatric Asthma Care

• Diabetes Empowerment Education Program (DEEP)
• South Side Fit Wellness Program
• TCA Health

• Healing Hurt People
• Project Fire
• Safe Kids
• Stop the Bleed Campaign
• The Urban Resilience Network (TURN) Center
• Violence Recovery Program (VRP): The VRP is a multidisciplinary team that provides support to victims of intentional violence and their families upon arrival at the UChicago Medicine Trauma Center. By engaging victims of intentional violence during admission and after their hospital discharge, VRP promotes comprehensive recovery and mitigate risks of polyvictimization via direct intervention and connections to community-based service providers.

Cancer

• Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (IBCCP)
• Office of Community Engagement and Cancer Disparities (OCECD)

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)

• Care2Prevent
• Chicago Center for HIV Elimination (CCHE)

More Health Conditions

• Adult Trauma Program (Level 1) at UChicago Medicine
• Burn Center
• Feed1st Program
• Fresh Start Caring for Kids Foundation
• Kidney Transplant Outreach Program: Provides information and education about kidney transplantation to patients in the community with end stage renal disease and healthcare professionals. The program also sponsors and participates in various events within the renal disease community, such as, but not limited to; the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois' "Walk for Kidneys," the American Kidney Fund's "Kidney Action Day" and the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois', "Living with Kidney Disease." We also travel to dialysis centers in Illinois and Indiana to do in-person patient and staff education.
• Pediatric Trauma Center (Level 1) at UChicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital
• South Side Healthy Aging Resource Experts (SHARE) Network

The Community Fitness Program at the Museum of Science and Industry boasts 60 to 80 members who regularly walk and do aerobic exercise inside the museum’s confines. The program takes place on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.

In existence more than 21 years, this free program is designed to encourage healthy fitness habits and to help seniors integrate a regular exercise program into their health routines.

Registration is required.

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South Side Fit is a free wellness program. In addition to weekly fitness classes and other benefits, South Side Fit offers monthly health and nutrition workshops. Registration is required.