Members of FLY and others on the South Side marched to Northwestern to show how far a trauma victim would have to travel in an emergency.
Topic: trauma center
The truth about trauma
Health education programs are not a solution to the South Side’s structural disadvantages.
Back to health care basics
A trauma center wouldn’t fill pressing South Side health needs.
Hospital officials weigh in on city’s racial divide
Hospital administrators blasted the current state of health access on the South Side.
Board of Trustees Chair talks tuition, trauma center
Andrew Alper (A.B. ’80, M.B.A. ’81) the chair of the University’s Board of Trustees addressed student concerns about rising tuition and a UCMC trauma center.
UCMC sounds off in open forum with trauma center activists
Students, staff, and administrators had their first official dialogue regarding the lack of a trauma center at the University of Chicago Medical Center last night at an open forum hosted by SG.
SG slate remaining neutral on trauma center, for now
As Student Government’s November 10 open forum on the lack of a trauma center on the South Side of Chicago approaches, the SG Executive Slate is remaining neutral on the issue. SG President Youssef Kalad issued this statement in an…
Officials defend lack of trauma center, tout UCMC’s offerings
A discussion organized by U of C Medical School students allowed hospital officials to discuss recent criticism of the UCMC.
Celebration, protest mark MLK Day
Protesters staged a mock funeral outside the University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Service last Friday, insisting the addition of a level-one trauma center to the UCMC.
Die-in on quad protests UCMC
The protesters dramatized a need for trauma care on the South Side, part of a campaign to pressure the UCMC to reopen its trauma center.