Community Programs and Services

Through community partnerships, the University of Chicago Medicine supports a variety of programs and services offering health-related benefits for South Side residents.

Community-Building

Community Health Research

Free & Low-Cost Health Services

Bridgeport Free Clinic
CommunityHealth Diagnostic Imaging Program: A charity care program providing diagnostic imaging services to CommunityHealth’s patients. The services, performed monthly, include imaging (MRI/CT), GI services (diagnostic colonoscopies/screening colonoscopies/EGDs), cardiac tests (stress tests, stress ECHOs), ultrasounds and ECHOs.
Feed1st Program
Fresh Start Caring for Kids Foundation
Maria Shelter Clinic
Pediatric Mobile Medical Unit
Washington Park Children’s Free Clinic

Medical Students Serving the Community

Current Health Priority Areas

Additionally, UChicago Medicine is committed to addressing health priority areas identified through the Community Health Needs Assessment. We support programs and services that address these health conditions in our 12-zip code service area.

Asthma

Community Health Worker (CHW) Program: CHWs conduct home assessments and educational visits, serving as a liaison between patients' families and their primary care providers. Through these efforts, the CHWs are working across neighborhoods in Chicago's South Side to address social determinants of health (conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, etc. that affect a wide range of health outcomes and risks) as they relate to asthma and are assisting community members in their self-management of asthma. In addition to asthma, CHWs focus on other health issue areas as well.
Pediatric Asthma Care

Diabetes & Pediatric Obesity

Violence Prevention

Healing Hurt People
Project Fire
Safe Kids
Stop the Bleed Campaign
The Urban Resilience Network (TURN) Center
Violence Recovery Program (VRP): The VRP is a multidisciplinary team that provides support to victims of intentional violence and their families upon arrival at the UChicago Medicine Trauma Center. By engaging victims of intentional violence during admission and after their hospital discharge, VRP promotes comprehensive recovery and mitigate risks of polyvictimization via direct intervention and connections to community-based service providers.

Programs & Services in More Health Areas

Cancer

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)

More Health Conditions

Adult Trauma Program (Level 1) at UChicago Medicine
Burn Center
Feed1st Program
Fresh Start Caring for Kids Foundation
Kidney Transplant Outreach Program: Provides information and education about kidney transplantation to patients in the community with end stage renal disease and healthcare professionals. The program also sponsors and participates in various events within the renal disease community, such as, but not limited to; the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois' "Walk for Kidneys," the American Kidney Fund's "Kidney Action Day" and the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois', "Living with Kidney Disease." We also travel to dialysis centers in Illinois and Indiana to do in-person patient and staff education.
Pediatric Trauma Center (Level 1) at UChicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital
South Side Healthy Aging Resource Experts (SHARE) Network

Exercise & Fitness Programs

Community Fitness Program

The Community Fitness Program at the Museum of Science and Industry boasts 60 to 80 members who regularly walk and do aerobic exercise inside the museum’s confines. The program takes place on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.

In existence more than 21 years, this free program is designed to encourage healthy fitness habits and to help seniors integrate a regular exercise program into their health routines.

Registration is required.