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The University of Chicago Medicine's heart transplant program is making history once again. The program's transplant survival rates and transplant wait times are not only the best in the country, but they're the best in the history of heart transplantation, according to an analysis of Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data.

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First federal center focused on farmworker health and safety to open in Chicago

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Parents who identified as Hispanic/Latinx or Black were less likely to have reliable, high-speed internet than White parents, according to a survey from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago published in the journal JAMA Network Open.

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Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency Preparedness Program (MedCEEP), a program created to empower underrepresented minority youth to become trained in recognizing and responding to the most prevalent life-threatening emergency scenarios while being exposed to health-related careers, has received a $15,000 grant from My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation.

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National education discussions from teacher shortages to curriculum requirements and school safety have been front and center throughout the summer. With many school districts close to opening the 2022-23 academic year, including Chicago Public Schools on Aug. 22, DePaul University experts are available to offer insights and commentary on a variety of back-to-school topics.

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The University of Chicago Medical Center is one of just 24 hospitals nationwide to have 10 specialties that rank on U.S. News & World Report's 2022-2023 Best Hospitals list.

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For the third year in a row, RUSH is ranked among the nation’s best on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-2023 Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Of more than 4,500 U.S. hospitals evaluated, RUSH ranked 20th in the nation, with 10 specialties rated among the country’s top 50.

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Mark Anderson, a renowned scholar, physician and caregiver, has been appointed to lead the University of Chicago's field-defining work in medicine and biological sciences as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and Dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine, effective October 1, 2022.

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As part of UChicago Medicine's community engagement efforts, the public is invited to provide input to inform the services and offerings at what will be the state’s only freestanding comprehensive cancer center.

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The University of Chicago Medicine released its 2021-22 Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) for the communities the health system serves on Chicago’s South Side and in the south suburbs.

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Chicago magazine's Top Cancer Doctors list for 2022 includes 29 Loyola Medicine physicians.

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UIC partners with Luv City for program scheduled to run July 5 through Aug. 9

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Multiple events will be held during the run of the exhibitions through Aug. 6

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A new John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation-commissioned report authored by researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy takes a closer look at the patterns and reveals important differences in the characteristics of individuals leaving the city from those new to the region.

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Summer learning initiative kicks off June 27

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Landmark study reveals extreme levels of exposure to violence, risk of being shot for street outreach workers.

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RUSH University System for Health is expanding access to its services and experts for those living in Chicago’s West Loop. A new outpatient center will open in fall 2022.

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University of Chicago Medicine research shows discrepancies in COVID-19 vaccine coverage across Chicago zip codes.

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The combined critical illness recovery and inpatient rehabilitation hospital is being built on the RUSH University Medical Center campus. The hospital is slated to open in 2024 and will feature 44 critical illness recovery and 56 inpatient rehabilitation beds.

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Many of the settlement activities were documented in the Hull-House Bulletins

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University of Illinois Chicago's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy identifies 475,106 erroneous tickets in nearly six-year span

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An analysis and neighborhood ranking released today by the University of Chicago Data Science Institute (DSI) has revealed rich, new detail about the deep disparities in connectivity to high-speed Internet in Chicago. This finding is part of a long-term effort by the Internet Equity Initiative, an innovative effort from the University of Chicago Data Science Institute, to reduce disparities and help guide the investment of the $65 billion in federal funding that was authorized in 2021 to expand broadband adoption and address disparities highlighted by the COVID pandemic.

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The University of Chicago Medicine contributed $606.9 million in benefits and services to residents of the South Side and Southland areas in fiscal 2021, according to the latest annual report that outlines the academic health system’s investments in and support of the community.

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Seven members of the University of Chicago faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. They include Profs. Christopher R. Berry, Raphael C. Lee, Peter B. Littlewood, Richard Neer, Sianne Ngai and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Prof. Emerita Wadad Kadi.

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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR) at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago are expanding a comprehensive and collaborative system to better identify and respond to Pre-K-12 students who need mental health support. The expansion from 200 CPS pilot schools to all District schools aims to strengthen the District’s response to an escalating national youth mental health crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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For more than 20 years, Loyola Medicine has provided the Chicago area with allergy counts every weekday via Twitter during the allergy season. The Loyola Medicine Allergy Count will begin 2022 reporting on April 1.

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A team researchers is projected to receive approximately $22 million from the NIH over four years to research long COVID-19. The emerging health condition causes many COVID-19 patients, even those who were not hospitalized, to have continued and new symptoms months after their initial illness.

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For the first time at Northwestern Medicine, surgeons have successfully performed a double-lung transplant on a patient with terminal lung cancer. The patient, 54-year-old Albert Khoury of Chicago, is a non-smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Six months after his transplant, Khoury’s new lungs are working well, and he currently has no signs of cancer left in his body, giving hope to other patients with advanced stages of this deadly disease.

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A new report from the Lown Institute, a non-partisan think tank that advocates for a just healthcare system, ranks the University of Chicago Medicine No. 6 on its list of the most racially inclusive hospitals.

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The regulatory Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved the University of Chicago Medicine’s application for a master design permit Tuesday, allowing the academic health system to move forward with the design and planning process for the state’s and city’s first freestanding comprehensive cancer center.

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Rush University and Esperanza Health Centers are working together to increase the number of primary care doctors who are well-prepared to serve in areas of greatest need.

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The exhibit, “A Search for Unity: Rudy Lozano and the Coalition Building in Chicago,” will run until the fall

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Chicago residents and visitors now have access to lifesaving STOP THE BLEED® kits as the city expands its Safe Chicago initiative.

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The Cigna Foundation awarded a $375,000 Health and Well-Being grant to support the South Side Pediatric Asthma Center’s (SSPAC) mission to improve access to care and health outcomes for children with asthma on the South Side of Chicago.

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Loyola Medicine has announced the appointment of Alexander J. Ghanayem, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, as chief medical officer of its Medical Group. Loyola Medicine’s academic health system includes Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital and MacNeal Hospital. Dr. Ghanayem joined Loyola Medicine in 1995 and serves as chair of the department of orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation.

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With the goal of providing specialized patient care closer to where people live and work, Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is announcing a new leadership team to guide expansion of clinical programs and cardiovascular services at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital.

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AMITA Health and the University of Chicago Medicine have joined forces in a collaboration to jointly bring the South Side academic health system’s specialized cancer expertise, access to advanced therapies and innovative clinical trials, and greater cancer care options to Chicago’s North Side.

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.A survey by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has found that more than 4 in 10 children and adolescents have experienced an increase in one or more mental health symptoms over the last six months.

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Rush and DePaul signed a memorandum of understanding to explore collaboration in science, education and technology, pursuing opportunities for seminars, courses and academic programs as well as research, internships and practicums.

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Providing individual hotel rooms with supports to people experiencing homelessness who were at high risk of severe COVID-19 led to a 2.5-fold decrease in SARS-CoV-2 rates compared to rates seen in Chicago city shelters, as well as improvements in other health measures and housing outcomes.

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A U.S. Army veteran living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was presented with an Australian shepherd service dog on Sept. 25, the result of roughly five years of fundraising by an employee group at Argonne National Laboratory.

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A majority of Chicago parents feel that schools and employers should be able to require students and employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19, respectively, according to results of the latest survey by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

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The Backward River Festival: Reclaiming the Chicago River, a two-day outdoor event presented by the University of Illinois Chicago’s Freshwater Lab, will bring together artists, environmental justice advocates, local residents and community organizers for water-related activities, music, panel discussions, art, food and a community expo

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A virtual webinar, "Equitable Primary Care in the Community," will bring together experts to address the challenges involved in providing primary care in the most at-risk communities. The event launches a partnership between Rush University Graduate College and IIT's Institute of Design.

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Enrollment increased at UIC by 2% this fall to 34,199 from last year’s record of 33,518.