We invite you to visit our blog to link to four articles/posts from other blogs and online publications, by Guy Adams, George Lakoff, Carol Miller and Lesie Savan that look at the current situation through interesting lenses…
You’ll also find The American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Criteria for a Public Plan, a link to a post from Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein on taxing of employer-paid health insurance and more.,,
The Cook County Health and Hospitals System is at a crossroads right now. The strategic planning process now underway will chart a course for the coming years: will the decision be made to simply be a tertiary care institution and leave primary care to the FQHCs? Will the decision be made to comprehensively address the health care needs of the poor only in Cook County? Or, will the System’s board embrace this opportunity to create an integrated system of comprehensive care, teaching and research, across northern Illinois, joining with the surrounding counties who already use many of the services of the Cook County System?
Health & Medicine hopes the last choice will be the path chosen. We intend to have our voice heard at the town hall meetings coming up this week and next and hope you’ll let your voice be heard too. (Meetings begin at 6pm and are on August 21, 2009, at Truman College, 1145 West Wilson Avenue, Chicago; and on August 24, 2009 at the Math and Science Academy, 8601 West Roosevelt Road, Forest Park.)
We will be posting post-meeting commentary on our blog at: http://hmprg.typepad.com/health-medicine-hmprg/
We wanted to share the following information concerning an extremely important meeting about the future direction of Cook County Hospital and urban health care as we know it. Please, come out, or send a representative and make your opinions known. These are the last three meetings!
Download the following:
Download the CCHHS Questionnaire for Town Hall Meetings
Strategic Planning Meeting-Truman College
Town Hall Meetings Final Flyer
Please pass this message on to your listserv and your individual colleagues, and make calls or send faxes to those you know who don’t have e-mail access. If you want to give written testimony please provide 15 copies. All oral testimony is limited to 3 minutes.
Thanks in advance for taking action!
