![]() Other Level 1 adult trauma centers in Cook County are in the suburbs of Oak Lawn, Maywood, Park Ridge and Evanston. Holy Cross will be one of four adult trauma centers in the city of Chicago, including Stroger Hospital and Mount Sinai on the West Side, Northwestern Memorial Hospital on the Near North Side and Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center on the North Side. I think that all of the hospitals, given the fiscal realities and the costs of providing trauma care, this is a solution that will help to address the problem," Wilson said. Janette Wilson, senior adviser for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, said collaboration such as this is a "great step forward" on the South Side, where residents have seen so much violence. It's a humanizing kind of thing to be able to have what you know folks on the North Side have." It also closes this apparent notion that the city doesn't care about us or that the university doesn't care about us. "It closes more than the gap between access to trauma care. If you need trauma care now, it's close to you," DeShazier said. "Whether you need to use it or not, the mere fact that it exists there in your community is a sign that your community is like any other taken seriously in the city of Chicago, and that your people are taken as seriously as anyone else. of C.'s lack of a trauma center, said the decision to build a new trauma center is an "affirming statement" for the South Side. Julian DeShazier, who has been an outspoken critic of U. Others expressed cautious optimism about the project, saying while it addresses the larger issue of a lack of trauma care for accident victims and victims of violence, many other medical needs still need to be addressed in the community. ![]()
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