HealthLeaders Media December 17, 2024
The health system plans to expand community sites and services, beef up its chronic care management and SDOH programs, add 1,000 new employees and build a new hospital to replace the aging Advocate Trinity Hospital.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Recent surveys indicate residents of Chicago’s South Side are at increased risk of chronic diseases and death due to a lack of access to healthcare services.
– Advocate Health Care, the Illinois-based arm of the national Advocate Health system, is launching a massive community health program aimed at addressing those disparities.
– The project includes $25 million in workforce development initiatives.
Advocate Health Care has announced an ambitious expansion into Chicago’s South Side to the tune of $1 billion.
The Illinois-based arm...