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		<title>Health Reform and the Health Safety Net Forum Materials Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 9, 2010, Health &#38; Medicine hosted a forum, &#8220;Health Reform and the Health Care Safety Net: Challenges and Opportunities,&#8221; to examine the ways in which federal health reform legislation will impact the health care safety net in Illinois.  With 100 attendees, the forum explored the potential impacts of reform on community health centers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/07/13/health-reform-and-the-health-safety-net-forum-materials-available/</link>
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		<title>2010 HMPRG AWARDS &#8211; CALL FOR NOMINATIONS! August 6 Deadline!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2006, Health &#38; Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG) inaugurated the HMPRG Awards to ensure that visionary public health and health justice leaders receive the recognition they deserve.  Since then, the awards have been presented twice.  The winners become members of our Advisory Council, where they have had an opportunity to guide and enrich [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/07/12/2010-hmprg-awards-call-for-nominations/</link>
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		<title>Last Chance to Register for July 9 Health Reform and the Safety Net Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Health &#38; Medicine is hosting a forum, &#8220;Health Reform and the Healthcare Safety Net: Opportunities and Challenges&#8221; on Friday, July 9th from 8:30am-12:30pm at the UIC School of Public Health Auditorium (1603 W. Taylor Street, Chicago).  The forum will explore challenges and opportunities presented by health reform in Illinois, and will examine the impact on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/07/08/last-chance-to-register-for-july-9-health-reform-and-the-safety-net-forum/</link>
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		<title>Impact of State Budget Forum Materials Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 14, 2010, Health &#38; Medicine hosted a forum, &#8220;The State&#8217;s Fiscal Crisis: Changing Our Collective Response.&#8221;  With over 70 attendees, the forum explored the impact of the State&#8217;s budget and recent cuts on health and human services in Illinois.  Participants heard from panel speakers about how we might collectively respond to the crisis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/06/25/impact-of-state-budget-forum-materials-available/</link>
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		<title>Past HMPRG Award Winners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2006  HMPRG Award Winners Health   Sachin Jain, MPH Medicine   Carl C. Bell, MD, Community Mental Health Council Policy   Hellander, MD, Physicians for a National Health Program Research   Steven Whitman, PhD , Sinai Urban Health Institute Group   Little Village Community Development Corp.   2008 Special Award   for Dedication to the Cook County Health System         Mardge Cohen, MD    &#38; Gordy Schiff, MD   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/06/17/past-hmprg-award-winners/</link>
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		<title>View Schweitzer Fellows In Action in New &#8220;Profiles in Service&#8221; Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To tell the stories of the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows, Health &#38; Medicine staff began creating short videos of Fellows at their community sites.  The latest videos feature Justin Welke, a dental student at the UIC College of Dentistry, Katherine Garlo, a second year Medical student at Rush Medical College  and  Sara Van Koningsveld, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/06/09/view-schweitzer-fellow-sara-van-koningsveld-in-profiles-in-service-video/</link>
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		<title>Save the Dates for Upcoming Safety Net Forums!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Save the Date! June 14, 2010, 1pm-5pm A forum, “The State’s Fiscal Crisis: Changing our Collective Response,” will be held on Monday, June 14th, 2010 at the UIC Student Center West (828 S. Wolcott Ave, Chicago) from 1pm-5pm.  The forum will be a conversation about the impact of the state budget cuts on health and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/05/26/save-the-dates-for-upcoming-safety-net-forums/</link>
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		<title>Visit our New Program Section on Health Care Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve added a section on health care reform to make it easy to follow HMPRG&#8217;s work assessing the changes brought by reform and the potential impact in Illinois, especially for vulnerable populations and on the health care safety net. The new section contains fact sheets on various aspects of the national legislation and its impact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/05/26/visit-our-new-program-section-on-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<title>What You Think About the Budget Matters! Let Your Voice Be Heard!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What You Think About the Budget Matters! Let Your Voice Be Heard! Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) is hosting its second annual Blog Day, Wednesday May 26th, 2010: “America’s Budget Matters, So Does Yours.” The posts on HMPRG&#8217;s about the impact of both the federal and state budget deficits and their impact on the aging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/05/26/what-you-think-about-the-budget-matters-let-your-voice-be-heard/</link>
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		<title>New Health Commissioner to Give &#8220;Leadership by Example&#8221; Lecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newly appointed Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, Dr. Bechara Choucair will be the next featured speaker in the  Schweitzer Fellows for Life &#8220;Leadership by Example&#8221; lecture series.  Now in its third year, the series invites exemplary individuals to talk about their lives of public service, with a special focus on leaders who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hmprg.org/2010/05/07/new-health-commissioner-to-give-leadership-by-example-lecture/</link>
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