A coalition of South Side health care providers, including University of Chicago Medicine and Friend Health, have established the South Side Healthy Community Organization through the state’s Healthcare Transformation Collaboratives program, aiming to expand primary, specialty and preventative care. – Hyde Park Herald
Eight healthcare collaboratives across Illinois have been allocated funds from the state with the goal of reorienting healthcare in Illinois to reduce healthcare inequities, improve health outcomes, address social determinants of health, and remedy persistent difficulty for underserved communities to access quality healthcare. – KHQA-TV
One group on the South Side said it will work to improve access to health care, including by adding 90 primary care and obstetrics providers. In recent years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get obstetrics care on the South Side with fewer hospitals offering obstetrics units. – Chicago Tribune
The state has agreed to provide tens of millions of dollars to coalitions that are proposing to improve health care on the South and West sides. A South Side group, a coalition of big and small hospitals and health clinics, will receive approximately $26 million from a state fund created this year. – Chicago Sun-Times
Governor JB Pritzker today announced $94.3 million will be awarded in the state’s inaugural round of Healthcare Transformation Collaboratives funding. – River Bender
The state has awarded about $90 million to eight health care provider groups that have plans to transform in an evolving industry. – Crain’s
Thank you, South Side community members – we did it! Coming together over the past year to listen, dialogue, create ideas and plan solutions has been recognized and now rewarded by the state. We are thrilled to announce the State of Illinois has awarded health transformation funds to the South Side Health Transformation Project for our healthy community model! We are excited to soon learn the official dollar award, which we will then share with you and the community who worked hard to make this happen. – South Side Health Transformation Project
After months of community meetings, town halls, and Zoom calls, the South Side Health Transformation Project (SSHTP) was gratified to hear that the Hospital and Healthcare Transformation Bill unanimously passed in the Illinois legislature. The South Side Health Transformation Project submitted its application on April 9th seeking $30 million. – TBT News
After months of community meetings, town halls, and Zoom calls, the South Side Health Transformation Project (SSHTP) was gratified to hear in January that the Hospital and Healthcare Transformation Bill unanimously passed in the Illinois legislature. Governor JB Pritzker signed it into law mid-March, launching an application process to allocate $150 million each year for the next five years to address health inequity by sustainably improving access and outcomes to healthcare for underserved communities. – Chicago Citizen
A coalition of South Side hospitals, health clinics and faith and community groups hopes to strike at the heart of health care’s structural racism by expanding and reassembling its infrastructure. The coalition is seeking part of the $150 million in federal and state dollars to fund its proposed South Side Health Transformation Project, which aims to upend a health care infrastructure that stifles access to primary and secondary care for 400,000 South Siders — at least 60 percent of whom leave their neighbor- hoods to get medical care. – Chicago Sun-Times
