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Joyce Applauds Program to Improve COVID-19 Health Equity Strategies

“The pandemic showed us firsthand the inequity and inequality in our health care system,” said Joyce (D-Essex). #COVID

Cook County Board of Commissioners Approves Commissioner Donna Miller’s County-wide Property Tax Incentive Program to Address Food Deserts

One of the main pillars of Cook County’s Policy Roadmap and American Rescue Plan Act initiatives is to promote healthy communities by addressing food insecurity and food access. #foodinsecurity

Joyce Urges Women to Schedule Annual Mammogram

Breast cancer is a disease that affects over 250,000 women and 2,400 men in the United States every year. #breastcancerawareness

Northwestern Mutual’s Chicago-Area Firms Donate $50,000 to Ronald McDonald House Charities in Honor of Company’s Decade-Long Commitment to Fighting Childhood Cancer

Chicago and Downers Grove-based firms announced a combined donation of $50,000 to the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) in Chicagoland #rmhc

Illinois Announces Latest Round of Healthcare Transformation Collaboratives, Providing over $70 Million to Increase Access and Equity in Healthcare Statewide

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These funds are being spent in underserved communities to fill gaps that exist in the healthcare system, with a focus on underlying conditions in areas of the state that are high on the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's social vulnerability index scale, and communities that have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. #healthcare

‘You’re family now.’ South Suburban men forever linked after one donates part of his liver to complete stranger

Nearly 6,000 people received liver donations in 2022, however less than six percent of those were from living donors. There are currently more than 11,000 people on the U.S. waiting list for liver donation #liverdonation

Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller Releases ‘Cardiovascular Health in the Southland’ Report

The report found that overall, cardiovascular disease-related deaths occur more frequently in CCDPH’s South jurisdiction, which has a substantial Black population, compared to the Southwest jurisdiction, whose population is predominantly white.

Northwestern Medicine Awards $1.7 Million in Grants to Community Partners

This funding initiative, which is just one facet of Northwestern Medicine’s community giving campaign, offered grants to local agencies supporting specific health and wellness projects.

Victory: Judge Rules Pritzker’s Mandates “Moot”

Victory: Judge Rules Pritzker’s Mandates “Moot”  (Chicago, IL) — This afternoon, Judge Raylene Grischow dismissed over 100 of defendants from the parent-led lawsuit concerning...

Gov. Pritzker Announces Medicaid Reimbursement Increases and Expanded Title X Funds for Reproductive Health Care Providers

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The $2 million in funds would be in addition to $5.4 million in federal HHS funding and an existing $5.8 million in state funds, for a total budget of $13.2 million.

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