by Laura | Dec 29, 2020 | Press
[Excerpted from CNN] … CommunityHealth in Chicago, which provides free healthcare to nearly 8,000 patients — most of them Latino — is understaffed with only 42 employees and 1,000 volunteers, CEO Stephanie Willding said. Willding said her clinic isn’t...
by Laura | Dec 21, 2020 | Press
[Excerpted from MarketWatch] … Making sure ‘trusted places’ can distribute vaccines CommunityHealth, located on Chicago’s West Side, is the largest free health center in the country. Its roughly 8,000 active patients have no health insurance, and a majority come...
by Laura | Nov 18, 2020 | Press
[Excerpted from Americares] … The funds will be used to purchase critically needed personal protective equipment, increase COVID-19 testing and screening capabilities, implement telehealth services, hire additional medical staff and offset the cost of other...
by Laura | Nov 9, 2020 | Press
[Excerpted from Direct Relief] … At CommunityHealth – a free clinic based in Chicago – licensed clinical social worker Ornella Razetto has observed a similar trend. “It began with anxiety, depressive symptoms and financial insecurity,” said Razetto, but now,...
by Laura | Oct 31, 2020 | Press
[Excerpted from EuroNews] … Matilde Ríos is one of the primary care physicians at the CommunityHealth centre in Chicago, the largest free clinic in the United States, a safety net for people without medical coverage in the third most populous city in the...
by Laura | May 6, 2020 | Press
[Excerpted from the Chicago Tribune] … Stephanie Willding, the CEO at CommunityHealth, a West Town clinic, said she started to get messages from the community about a month ago telling her that people were sick but were scared to seek medical help. The pandemic...
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