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CEO Steph Willding was featured on Equal Hope's "Disrupting Privilege" Podcast November 28, 2022. She spoke to hosts John McIlwain and Shari Runner about the ways in which CommunityHealth was established as a disruption to the payor-model healthcare system that we...

WBEZ Chicago: Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons Oct 19, 2022 As thousands of Central and South American migrants arrive in Chicago, leaders across the city are rushing to provide adequate housing and support for them. But some aldermen are calling on Mayor Lightfoot to do...

[From NBC5 Chicago] "Inside the CommunityHealth clinic in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood, a second-year medical student teaches a class on the weekends that involves preventative health care, and her students are members of a community who are close to her heart....

[Excerpted from Block Club Chicago] "CommunityHealth is one of the largest volunteer-based health centers in the United States, offering free services to low-income, uninsured Chicagoans, which is primarily an immigrant population, external affairs director Laura...

[Excerpted from Midwest Today]   Many of our patients have never had a medical home that provides a comprehensive set of health services - all for free. At CommunityHealth, they have the chance to build a long-term relationship with their primary care provider....

[Excerpted from News-Medical.net] As part of their second-year MD curriculum, a group of Feinberg students recently designed and implemented a community quality improvement project, screening patients for food insecurity at their Education-Centered Medical Home (ECMH)...

Stephanie Willing, the CEO of Community Health joins Good Day Chicago to discuss the new law that went into effect Jan. 1. [Excerpt from interview, Fox32 Chicago] Steph: "Under this new law, any individual or institution can donate sealed, unexpired medications to any...

Last month, CEO Steph Willding appeared on Becker's Healthcare Podcast to discuss CommunityHealth's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and share her experience in the world of free and charitable health centers. Click here to listen!

[Excerpted from Direct Relief] ... Stephanie Willding, chief executive officer of the Chicago-based clinic CommunityHealth, explained that staff members have seen three separate stages in the vaccination process. First, she said, were people ready and even excited to...

Telehealth has been a lifeline for long-term patients throughout the pandemic — but what about those without reliable access to high speed internet? By: Stephanie Wilding, CEO at CommunityHealth COVID-19 sent telemedicine on the fast-track for widespread adoption,...

[Excerpted from The Art of Change, by Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock] When people lined up outside of a major food bank in Chicago, CommunityHealth’s team sprang into action. Walking down the long, socially-distanced line of people on the sidewalk, they conducted...

[Excerpted from Chicago Magazine] ... “Allison was famous here long before she was famous in Chicago,” says Stephanie Willding, the CEO of CommunityHealth, a West Town nonprofit clinic that is the city’s largest health care facility for the uninsured. Until the...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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,...

[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....

[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...

[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....

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...

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...