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4 Healthcare Technology Trends Expected to Boom During COVID-19
[Excerpted fromHealthTech] ... Together, many of the shifts that have taken place have moved the needle toward a more patient-focused experience of healthcare delivery. “The pandemic pointed to the need for patient-centered healthcare,” says Stephanie Willding, CEO...
Some Black and Latino Americans are still hesitant to take the vaccine. Here’s what is fueling that distrust
[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 equipped for...
‘How can we become trustworthy?’ Doctors and community leaders are working to counter vaccine hesitancy in Black and Latino Americans
[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...
Americares Awards $250,000 in COVID-19 Relief Grants
[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...
Mental Health Providers See “Unprecedented” Surge During Pandemic
[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,...
US Election: Why is healthcare a key issue with Latino voters?
[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 country....
Latino communities in Illinois see uptick in COVID-19 confirmed cases: ‘Physical distancing is a privilege’
[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...
Before data showed Chicago blacks dying at higher rates, communities of color knew recovery from COVID-19 would be slow
[Excerpted from the Chicago Tribune] ... Despite the lack of accurate numbers, health care providers at the CommunityHealth clinic in West Town, where 60% of the patients are Spanishspeaking, are brainstorming new ways to help patients get food and hygiene products....
Chicago’s CommunityHealth providing care, medicine for free
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Checking in with the Clinic
From Latino USA (NPR), March 27, 2020 - click here to listen to audio "Last year, Latino USA producers spent 72 hours at CommunityHealth, a free clinic in Chicago that’s run primarily by volunteers to serve people without health insurance, including many low-income...
The Clinic
Click here to listen to the audio or read the full transcript at Latino USA (NPR), December 4, 2019 "This week, Latino USA goes to the doctor. We spend three days inside CommunityHealth in Chicago—the largest free health clinic in the country, which serves only people...