"Make no mistake, health care remains the over-arching issue in fiscal and social policy. The work we do at Health and Medicine will be tomorrow's headlines. We believe it can be good news. We are making a difference."
—Quentin D. Young, M.D.
For 25 years Health and Medicine has been driven by a singular mission: formulating health policy, advocacy and health systems to enhance the health of the public. We have earned a reputation as a trusted source for analysis on health reform and a valuable convener and leader of coalitions and collaborations working on health justice issues. We have taken on significant challenges....savored some important victories...and made a commitment to stay the course until our goals are achieved.
We invite you to start with our founding story and spend some time learning about our organization and our mission and what we're working on now. And we look forward to working with you to make affordable, accessible healthcare a reality for everyone in Illinois...
Schweitzer Fellows Program - Fellows for Life Lecture Series
Guest Speaker MEADE PALIDOFSKY
Tuesday, August 12, 6:00pm
Loyola University Chicago
Water Tower Campus
Lewis Towers
111 E Pearson St., 13th Floor
This summer, the Schweitzer alumni program (Fellows for Life) has organized a lecture series featuring exemplary community leaders who will talk about their lives in public service. Our hope is that audience members will be inspired to likewise become agents of change in their communities.
Our next speaker, Meade Palidofsky, founder and artistic director of
Music Theatre Workshop, believes theater has the power to be a
life-changing force. The group writing method she developed
allows participants to use playwriting to examine their lives, the
choices they make, the roles they play, and their relationships
with others in order to recognize and consider other goals and outcomes.
Ms. Palidofsky’s theater work
with youth in detention has been featured on HUMANKIND, a national public radio
program produced in Boston, and on THIS AMERICAN
LIFE, from WBEZ in Chicago. STICKS AND STONES, a national documentary on
successful violence prevention programs, highlighted her musical/discussion
program, SOMEONE YOU CAN TRUST. In 2008,
P, B and J Productions plans to release a documentary of her Fabulous Females
work at the Illinois
Youth Center
in Warrenville.
This event is open to the public and free of charge
but reservations are strongly recommended.
RSVP to: rsvp@hmprg.org or call 312 372-4292 Ext. 24
SAVE THE DATE!
Health and Medicine policy research group’s birth center
Task force presents:
Moving
Forward:
Delivering
Freestanding Birth Centers in Illinois
November
17 & 18, 2008
8:30am—4:30pm
The
Carleton Hotel in Oak Park,
Illinois
with
training assistance and materials from
the
American Association of Birth Centers
Conference
Highlights:
The
Business of Birth Centers
Birth
Center
Operations
Illinois
Specific Regulations and Reimbursement
Next
Steps/Resources
REGISTRATION OPENS AUGUST 2008
To be notified when registration opens or for more information,
contact:
Mairita Smiltars
Phone: 773-728-0271
E-mail: Mairita@LMcAlpine.com
 VISIT OUR "CHIP IN" PAGE AND HELP US MAKE OUR AUGUST SAVE COUNTY FUND GOAL OF $5000 BY AUGUST 30...EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS!!!!!
Health and Medicine has joined with other organizations to create the Emergency Network to Save Cook County Health Services. Our goal is to strengthen the Cook County Bureau of Health Services by demanding a reversal of the draconian cuts to services and staff, creating a temporary trusteeship to oversee the financial and managerial operations of the system including a nationwide search for new leadership of the bureau, and researching and proposing new ways to financially support the system.
Health and Medicine believes the only way to create a truly seamless, comprehensive health care safety net is to work toward a northern Illinois, regional safety net that includes all of the surrounding counties. To learn more about our work on this issue visit the savecounty.org link in the left navigation bar or email Margie Schaps at HMPRG.
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