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Health News Illinois reports that free and charitable clinics in Illinois are requesting legislators to increase state funding from $4 million to the previous $9 million, highlighting an increased demand in services driven by the return of Medicaid redeterminations...

CommunityHealth and its partners at Northwestern Medicine introduce sleep medicine into the health care safety net Sleep and Breathing by the International Journal of the Science and Practice of Sleep Medicine is publishing an article on "the feasability program"...

Chicago health officials are preparing for a summer surge of migrants bused here from the southern border that will eclipse the number of arrivals the previous year.As more than 38,000 aslyum seekers have been transported to Chicago since August of 2022 with an...

Longitudinal Medical Student Collaborative Care in Primary Care Patients With Type 2 DiabetesPeer-Reviewed Reports in Medical Education Research (PRIMER) from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine journals reported on successes in the treatment and care for...

"Schools of nursing are challenged by increasing demand for clinical placements. Free and charitable clinics provide needed primary care to under-resourced populations. Academic–practice partnerships afford schools of nursing the opportunity to develop training...

Health Care Council of Chicago (HC3) hosted "The Future of Health in Illinois" on January 25th, 2024, at Nixon Peabody with a panel of revolutionary leaders from Third Horizon Strategies, Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Equality Illinois, CommunityHealth, and Illinois...

The Chicago Sun-Times covers the mental health crisis within the migrant crisis. With barriers like language access and shortage of health care workers, advocacy groups work tirelessly to welcome our new neighbors to Chicago with dignity, respect, and trauma-informed...

"We are doing this because we were asked to, because it is the right thing to do, and because we can." Chief Executive Officer, Steph Willding, MPA, joined Turn on the Lights to discuss the free clinic movement, hosted by Don Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, and Kedar Mate, MD...

Migrants who already struggle to talk about their trauma find a persistent shortage of mental health workers. WBEZ Chicago reports on the mental health crisis underlying the ongoing migrant crisis in the United States, as exemplified by CommunityHealth's...

Crain's reports on the potential public health crisis from the lack of shelter for asylum seekers this winter. As Chicagoans prepare for the upcoming season and the notorious winter frosts in our city, Crain's Chicago Business writes about expectations for the over...

Long-time funder, partner, and ally of CommunityHealth, Lundbeck, announces $1 million grant.Lundbeck, a global pharmaceutical company specializing in brain diseases, has supported our clinic for over a decade. The company is committed to researching, developing,...

WBEZ sat down with the CommunityHealth again to learn more about the ongoing migrant crisis as it crosses the one year mark. On September 7th, 2023, Chief Executive Officer of CommunityHealth, Stephanie Willding, MPA, talked with Dr. Evelyn Figueroa, MD, of Pilsen...

The Healthcare Council of Chicago sat down with the CEO of CommunityHealth to talk about access to health care. Meghan Phillip, MBA and David Smith, co-hosts of the podcast from HC3 sponsored by Third Horizon Strategies, discussed our volunteer-based, no-cost business...

"We did not create this humanitarian crisis, but we are responsible for it." Our Chief Executive Officer, Stephanie Willding, MPA, writes to the Chicago Sun-Times on the mobile care units that our clinic has deployed to police precincts for asylum seekers since May....

WBEZ sat down with the CommunityHealth to talk about how we are welcoming our new neighbors seeking asylum in Chicago.WBEZ Chicago hosted Chief Executive Officer of CommunityHealth, Stephanie Willding, MPA, on a panel with other community leaders like Evelyn Figueroa,...

CommunityHealth is deploying mobile care units to local police precincts to provide thousands of new arrivals with health assessments and resources.NBC5 Chicago sat down with our Chief Executive Officer, Steph Willding, MPA, to talk about the CommunityHealth mobile...

CommunityHealth offers sleep medicine in our medical home. Dr. Justin Fiala, a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, has introduced sleep medicine at CommunityHealth. After training at CommunityHealth as a medical student through the University of Illinois at Chicago Urban Medicine program, Dr. Fiala led the launch of our first sleep clinic in 2021…

Block Club Chicago reports on organizations across Chicago and their responses to the influx of migrants from social, political, and environmental upheaval.  Considering "Chicago has already been pushed to the max trying to find shelter for the waves of migrants...

CommunityHealth is hosting Diabetes Day on Saturday April 29th. In partnership with Onward Neighborhood House, community members are invited to receive free screenings and resources. The first 40 participants will win Diabetes care packages with glucometers and blood...

[From AMA Steps Forward Podcast] Margaret Bavis, DNP and Assistant Professor, Rush University College of Nursing, discusses how CommunityHealth, one of the largest volunteer-based health centers in the nation, assesses and optimizes social determinants of health to...

[Excerpted from Crain's Chicago Business] Stephanie Willding ran the Chicago Marathon this October for the first time. She says running helped her through another marathon: taking the reins of Chicago’s largest free clinic, CommunityHealth, as CEO right before the...

[Excerpted from Crain's Chicago Business] "Onward House generally refers health care to the free CommunityHealth Clinic, whose main offices are in West Town on Chicago Avenue, which opened a telehealth microclinic at Onward during the pandemic. "Stephanie Willding,...

[Excerpted from BlockClubChicago.org] Little Village residents have another neighborhood option for free health care beginning this month. Community Health Chicago, which offers free services to low-income, uninsured Chicagoans, has partnered with Enlace Chicago to...

[Excerpted from Chicago Tribune] Free and charitable clinics with pharmacies may also benefit from the new law. Such clinics, which give uninsured and underinsured patients free services and medication, already receive donated or low-cost drugs, but typically only...

[Excerpted from Chicago Tribune] Esperanza Health Centers, Alivio Medical Center, AHS Family Health Center and CommunityHealth will require employees to get their first vaccine doses by Sept. 1. Together, the centers have more than a dozen clinics across the Chicago...

[Excerpted from WGN 9] ... Representatives with Advocate, the Cubs, and three non-profits stressed the need to improve vaccine access for minorities, immigrants, homeless and other vulnerable populations. “Often time throughout the pandemic, our positivity rate was...