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Officials said the increase was driven largely by rising uncompensated care costs, including Medicare and Medicaid losses, unrecoverable patient debt, and the first full year of operations for UChicago Medicine Crown Point in Northwest Indiana. #investment #uchicago #benefits

Cancer remains a leading cause of death on Chicago’s South Side and in the Southland, where social and economic factors contribute to higher cancer rates and poorer outcomes. #uchicago #cancerprevention #soutside

Participants will complete a short questionnaire designed to identify signs of depression or anxiety. #screenings

Southland RISE is a collaboration between the trauma recovery programs of UChicago Medicine and Advocate Health Care. #programs

Ms. Cannon will share her amazing story of healing and hope to highlight an event that celebrates cancer patients, their care-givers and service providers who deliver a menu of services throughout the Southland at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial. #cancer

University of Chicago Medicine Ingalls  Memorial Hospital is one of the first in the area to offer Aquablation, a minimally invasive, robot-assisted  treatment that uses high-pressure water jets to remove excess prostate tissue. #prostate

For more than five decades, Ingalls has assumed the tasks of paramedic training, license renewals, ambulance inspections and meeting other state requirements... #ingalls

One goal of the expansion is to reach people sooner in their illness. #uchicago #ingalls

UChicago Medicine’s annual community benefit investment has more than doubled since 2013, bringing the health system’s total reported community investments to more than $5 billion over the past decade. #healthcare #uchicago #healthdisparities

The Center to Eliminate Cancer Inequity to address unequal burden of cancer driven by health disparities (Chicago, IL) (via UChicago Medicine) — A new...