Healthcare Anchor Network members Advocate Christ Medical Center, AMITA Health’s Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Rush University Medical Center, together with six of the other largest hospitals serving Chicago, announced the formation of HEAL, a groundbreaking new initiative aimed at reducing violence and improving health in Chicago’s most underserved neighborhoods.
HEAL was convened and supported by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, to “make tangible commitments to reduce gun violence, heal the physical and mental trauma that violence inflicts on victims, increase well-paying jobs and create other economic opportunities in the neighborhoods they serve.”