“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 whom are immigrants and all of whom live in poverty.
“CEO Stephanie Wilding said today Community Health’s strategy to ensure patients get access to health care, and stay safe doing it, includes encouraging telehealth visits, using its partnership with Uber Health to transport patients to its flagship clinic, coordinating access to medications and ‘having someone at the door of our facility to ensure only patients, their companions and those with appointments’ are the only ones let in.”
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