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Quality
To us, Quality means delivering care that is effective, safe, coordinated, timely and convenient.
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Our Commitment
For more than 140 years, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and its predecessor institutions, Passavant and Wesley Memorial hospitals, have served the people of Chicago. Our founder's commitment to provide medically-necessary healthcare to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay, remains an integral part of our Patient's First mission. We are committed to improving the health of the communities we serve by delivering a broad range of services focusing on individual needs. Caring for the community is what we do.
We believe everyone should have access to quality medical care. In an effort to reach that goal, we partner with neighborhood-based community health centers to provide that care to all, starting with preventive medicine.
Specifically, Northwestern Memorial is working with its community partners, Erie Family Health Center and Near North Health Services Corporation, to fight disparities in breast cancer and diabetes. There is consensus that many factors create barriers to accessing healthcare services, especially for low-income, African-American and Hispanic persons. These include:
- Lack of insurance and/or unaffordable services
- Confusion about how to access or navigate the health system
- Cultural barriers, such as perception of low risk, fear of mammography and mistrust of doctors
- Lack of understanding of diseases, risks, screening and detection
- Logistics issues, including lack of child care during appointments, poor or no transportation and inability to miss work
- Low English speaking proficiency
- Limited healthcare in the neighborhood
- Few years of formal education
Over the last few years, Northwestern Memorial, Erie Family Health and Near North Health Service Corporation have focused on two primary strategies:
- Identifying priority health concerns within the community and developing formal, comprehensive initiatives aimed at responding to these conditions
- Working together to systematically reduce known barriers to accessing all patient care services
Together we have developed models of care for chronic disease that have a measurable, positive impact on the health of medically underserved residents in our communities.
