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In its third year, at the CHEST 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago, CHEST Community Connections will partner with the Chicago Asthma Consortium, Mobile Care Chicago, and CommunityHealth. The Community Connections program was created to both meaningfully engage with...

“'Any time there is a wave of increased ICE activity, we will see a wave of patients opting to cancel appointments or do them by telehealth,' said Steph Willding, CEO of CommunityHealth, a primary and specialty care provider that treats uninsured adults and many...

"Community Health, a free health care provider operating in parts of Chicago, is 'fortifying' the entrance to its main clinic near Humboldt Park as part of a four-point strategy to deal with a possible surge in immigration enforcement targeting its patients, many of...

"... CommunityHealth, based in Chicago, offers a wide range of free medical services. In an interview with The Borgen Project, Laura Starr, Director of External Affairs at CommunityHealth, explained: 'We provide primary care, more than 20 medical specialties, dental...

... "Steph Willding, the association’s board chair and CEO of CommunityHealth, said this week that Maguire will step down at the end of September and 'will be taking a step away from full time, executive level work to focus on personal priorities.' “'Melissa has not...

CommunityHealth CEO Steph Willding was featured on Adelante Chicago, where she talked about the mission of CommunityHealth, as well as the services offered and resources provided. Watch the full interview here: Adelante Chicago 

"CommunityHealth is one of the nation's largest free clinics, serving many uninsured and underinsured immigrants in the Chicago area who have no other options for treatment. That includes the people who lost coverage July 1 when Illinois ended its Health Benefits for...

"First-year students Elizabeth Kayzman and Aditya Khandeshi showcase their project, 'Leveraging Rideshare to Assess Transportation Barriers for CommunityHealth.' The students’ specific research plan involves a simple, iterative framework that will utilize...

"Stephanie Willding, CEO of CommunityHealth, told lawmakers that the clinics provided over $29 million in care last year and helped Illinois hospitals avoid $36 million in unnecessary emergency room visits. "'So on behalf of the 48 free and charitable clinics across...

"Laura Starr, Director of External Affairs at CommunityHealth, spoke with Capitol Fax about Illinois free and charitable clinics being vital for serving uninsured and underserved populations, but are overwhelmed by rising demand and cannot replace the scale or...

"A free health clinic opened its doors in the Back of the Yards neighborhood this week. CommunityHealth, the nation’s largest volunteer-based free health center, opened its fourth location CommunityHealth at The Resurrection Project (TRP), on March 17th. The new...

"Patients at Chicago's free clinic for the uninsured are canceling appointments or switching to telephone appointments for fear of deportation, due to President Trump's tighter immigration policy. Executives at Community Health, which has served primarily Hispanic and...

"Worrying about deportation can literally make people sick. Health care providers are scrambling to cut through their undocumented patients’ panic about President Trump’s new immigration policies. "Health care workers say the shock and awe campaign of President Donald...

"At CommunityHealth, which serves a large immigration population, prescriptions have been left on shelves since President Donald Trump took office. "Nurse practitioner Margaret Bavis isn’t used to her 'rock-solid' patients not showing up at CommunityHealth, a free...

Director of Clinical Services Emily Hendel and Behavioral Health Counselor Angelica Solano were interviewed for the December 8, 2024, episode of the 100 Latina Birthdays podcast. Click here to listen "Between 2015 to 2019, unsheltered homelessness increased among two...

from Urban Matter November 11, 2024 "Unlike many developed countries, the United States does not offer free universal healthcare. "Instead, it provides a combination of private insurance and government-run options, with the Affordable Care Act aiming to provide health...

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"...

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...

"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 and its patients have seen firsthand that hyperlocal care can help achieve more equitable care." Thank you to our allies at the LLoyd A. Fry Foundation for highlighting the launch of our first microsite! In serving "care to low-income, uninsured...

Stephanie Willding, CEO of CommunityHealth, talks with Crain's Daily Gist host Amy Guth about her work, the organization, and the leadership lesson she learned during the early days of the pandemic. Listen to the interview here.