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05.20.22

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today introduced that Lawndale Christian Wellbeing Center (LCHC), situated on Chicago’s West Facet, has been awarded $960,000 in federal funding to assistance its community-centered healthcare residency system. By teaching medical doctor inhabitants in a Group Wellness Heart environment, alternatively than a conventional medical center, this program will aid tackle racial well being disparities and workforce shortages by growing the pipeline of health care providers in underserved locations. This funding was provided via the American Rescue Prepare and awarded by the Wellbeing Resources and Solutions Administration’s Educating Well being Center Graduate Professional medical Education (THCGME) system.

“Community Well being Facilities, like Lawndale Christian Overall health Center, are a very important source for so a lot of families, particularly in neighborhoods that have been historically underserved and strike tough by COVID-19,” Durbin claimed. “This American Rescue Approach funding will support a exclusive residency plan in Chicago that trains the future generation of medical professionals appropriate in the community.  Senator Duckworth and I will go on advocating for federal investments that grow and diversify our wellbeing care workforce and support strengthen wellness fairness.”

“Before and all over this pandemic, Illinoisans rely on neighborhood-based mostly healthcare centers for available care,” Duckworth explained. “And each and every American—no subject their zip code—should have access to high-quality health companies, which is 1 of the reasons I’m proud that support from President Biden’s American Rescue Approach is encouraging companies on Chicago’s West facet. I’ll retain doing the job with Senator Durbin to enable ensure all Illinoisans have access to the care they will need.”

“People on Chicago’s West Side face wellbeing disparities that really should not exist. A couple miles to the east or west of our community, average daily life expectancy rises a lot more than a ten years. Our vision is to equip the up coming technology of household drugs physicians to handle these disparities. From our integration of major care, behavioral health and fitness, and healthcare facility treatment, to our senior day companies and emphasis on caring for men and women dealing with homelessness, compound use dysfunction, and severe mental illness, LCHC is uniquely established up to offer resident teaching to greater the health and fitness of our group,” stated Dr. Benjamin Preyss, Lawndale Christian Relatives Medication Residency Program Director.

Previously this 12 months, LCHC introduced the to start with cohort of Household Medicine People to its Instructing Well being Middle system. The three-calendar year Spouse and children Medicine Residency will start teaching 6 inhabitants in July 2022 to give preventive treatment, chronic ailment management, material use disorder procedure, wellness care for folks suffering from homelessness, and much more. While regular Graduate Clinical Education funding and coaching is based mostly out of hospitals, this THCGME program—one of just two in Illinois—is centered in the group, prioritizing treatment for substantial-will need communities and susceptible persons.

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