by Laura | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog
This month’s Spotlight features Tomasz Jurga, our 2020 Pharmacy Volunteer of the Year. Tomasz started at CommunityHealth in December 2018, and has since served 205 hours as a dedicated volunteer pharmacist! In a few sentences, tell us more about yourself and...
by Laura | Dec 29, 2020 | Press
[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...
by Laura | Dec 21, 2020 | Press
[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...
by Laura | Nov 18, 2020 | Press
[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...
by Laura | Nov 9, 2020 | Press
[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,...
by Laura | Oct 31, 2020 | Press
[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...
by Laura | May 6, 2020 | Press
[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...
by Laura | Apr 21, 2020 | Press
[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...
by Laura | Apr 7, 2020 | Press
Watch the video and read the article at WGN 9, April 7, 2020 Watch the video and read the article at WGN 9, April 7, 2020
by Laura | Mar 27, 2020 | Press
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...
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