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The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System itself is composed of the 485-bed University of Illinois Hospital, outpatient diagnostic and specialty clinics, and two Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that serve as primary teaching facilities for the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Health Science Colleges. The eight ...
A Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is a community-based health care organization that provides comprehensive primary care and support services to underserved populations in the United States. These centers serve patients regardless of immigration status, insurance coverage, or ability to pay.
Community health centers that receive federal funding through the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are also called "Federally Qualified Health Centers". There are now more than 1,250 federally supported FQHCs with more than 8,000 service delivery sites.
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a 551-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in Chicago. Founded in 1897, the hospital operates a Level I trauma center and Level III Perinatal Center. Its license number is 0005165. [ 5 ]
Safety net hospitals oftentimes find themselves in difficult financial positions due to the vulnerable financial state of the patients and lack of sufficient federal, state and local funding; safety net hospitals have high rates of Medicaid and Medicare payers [8] [9] [1] (Medicaid has unreliable/insufficient processes of government to hospital repayment [8]) and a large proportion of safety ...
Phase III included a $130 million DoD construction project to build a new 201,000-square-foot (18,700 m 2) ambulatory care center next to the North Chicago VAMC, [7] renovation of more than 45,000 square feet (4,200 m 2) of existing space, and a new parking garage and surface parking area. This phase was completed in December 2010.
Oak Street Health head office is based in Chicago, Illinois. It began operating in 2012. By January 2020, it had expanded to 50 centers in eight states. [15] By October 2021, there were more than 100 centers in 18 states. [16] In 2024, Oak Street Health has expanded to over 170 centers nationwide.
The Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program is a federally funded program established in the United States in 1972 "to improve the supply, distribution, retention and quality of primary care and other health practitioners in medically underserved areas."