University of Chicago Medicine will open a cancer center on the South Side in an effort to address healthcare inequities.
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"Health inequities are really persistent on the South Side and have been so for a really long time. And what we really want to do is build a world-class destination right here on the South Side that we know that everyone will be interested in and want to be able to access," said Dr. Mitchell Posner, chief of Surgery and Surgical Oncology at University of Chicago Medicine.
"Research has established that patients who live farther from healthcare facilities like ours have worse healthcare outcomes, they spend longer times in the hospital, they don't follow up with their visits that are necessary and especially important for cancer patients," he said. Dr. Michael McGee is the president and CEO of Premier Urgent Care, a Black-owned urgent care facility. He and his colleagues are working to help address some of the overarching healthcare inequities on Chicago's South Side.
"If you are poor and living in poverty, a lot of times you don't have doctors' offices near you, you don't have clinics, you may not even have good grocery stores where you can buy healthy foods and healthy diets. And so a lot of those things, not having safe neighborhoods, not being able to have access to health care, will greatly affect you." McGee added."A lot of time patients end up waiting, and go to the hospital, and now their cancer has spread everywhere.
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