• Our Purpose3
    • Policy Priorities
    • Impact Report
    • Our Why
    • Our Wins
    • Our People
  • Get Informed3
    • News
    • Resource Library
    • Subscribe to Our Newsletters
  • Engage3
    • Advocacy Action
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Events
    • Legacy Giving
    • Partner with Us
    • Student Opportunities
    • Trainings on Trauma, Health, and Healing
  • Our Work3
    • Aging Equity Center
    • Chicago Area Health Education Center
    • Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellowship Program
    • Equity Intern Program
    • Forums for Justice in Health Policy
    • Freestanding Birth Centers
    • Good Jobs Chicagoland
    • Health Care Safety Net Center
    • Health Sector Workforce Initiatives
    • Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative
    • Public Health Equity Center
  • DONATE
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • Our Purpose3
    • Policy Priorities
    • Impact Report
    • Our Why
    • Our Wins
    • Our People
  • Get Informed3
    • News
    • Resource Library
    • Subscribe to Our Newsletters
  • Engage3
    • Advocacy Action
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Events
    • Legacy Giving
    • Partner with Us
    • Student Opportunities
    • Trainings on Trauma, Health, and Healing
  • Our Work3
    • Aging Equity Center
    • Chicago Area Health Education Center
    • Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellowship Program
    • Equity Intern Program
    • Forums for Justice in Health Policy
    • Freestanding Birth Centers
    • Good Jobs Chicagoland
    • Health Care Safety Net Center
    • Health Sector Workforce Initiatives
    • Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative
    • Public Health Equity Center
  • DONATE
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • Our Purpose3
    • Policy Priorities
    • Impact Report
    • Our Why
    • Our Wins
    • Our People
  • Get Informed3
    • News
    • Resource Library
    • Subscribe to Our Newsletters
  • Engage3
    • Advocacy Action
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Events
    • Legacy Giving
    • Partner with Us
    • Student Opportunities
    • Trainings on Trauma, Health, and Healing
  • Our Work3
    • Aging Equity Center
    • Chicago Area Health Education Center
    • Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellowship Program
    • Equity Intern Program
    • Forums for Justice in Health Policy
    • Freestanding Birth Centers
    • Good Jobs Chicagoland
    • Health Care Safety Net Center
    • Health Sector Workforce Initiatives
    • Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative
    • Public Health Equity Center
  • DONATE
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 

Medicaid Redetermination Survey Report

Medicaid-Redetermination-Survey-Report

Read More

Testimony to Cook County Health and Hospitals Systems Board (2021)

Testimony-to-Cook-County-Health-and-Hospitals-Systems-Board-2021

Read More

Testimony to Cook County Health and Hospitals Systems Board (2020)

Testimony-to-Cook-County-Health-and-Hospitals-Systems-Board-2020

Read More

A Checkup for Cook County’s Safety Net: A Qualitative Review of Health Reform

In 2016, Health & Medicine initiated a research project to explore the impacts, unintended consequences, and unfinished work of health reform—broadly defined—from the perspective of representatives of Cook County’s health care safety net through interviews and focus groups with people working...

Read More

Testimony on Cook County FY Preliminary Budget Hearing (2019)

Testimony-on-Cook-County-FY-Preliminary-Budget-Hearing-2019

Read More

Testimony on Cook County FY Preliminary Budget Hearing (2018)

Testimony-on-Cook-County-FY-Preliminary-Budget-Hearing-2018

Read More

A Qualitative Review of Chicago’s West Suburban Safety Net: Consequences, Adaptation, and Recommendations for Future Reform (March 2018)

This study extends previous research examining the impact of the Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid expansion on the safety net. The paper analyzes how the current political context is impacting the safety net sector while also examining overall adaptations to health reform, understanding its...

Read More

Beyond the Clinic: A National Health Equity Review Implications for our local safety net (March 2018)

This policy and practice review of national work examines how the safety net can use this time of health reform opportunity to shift toward addressing social determinants of health, structural determinants of health inequities, and ultimately health equity....

Read More

Strengthening the Safety Net After Health Reform: An Examination of the Cook County Safety Net (June 2016)

In late 2016, Health & Medicine completed new research on the Cook County Safety Net in partnership with Loyola and others to capture how state and federal health reform efforts have impacted Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), free and charitable clinics (FCCs), and hospitals in Cook...

Read More

Recent Posts

  • New Op-Ed: Chicago’s progress on safety shows Johnson’s head tax deserves support October 30, 2025
  • Health & Medicine calls for greater public health investment and immigrant protections in Cook County October 21, 2025
  • Now accepting applications to our paid Equity Intern Program October 21, 2025
  • Fellows Fest 2025–2026: Celebrate and support our Schweitzer Fellows October 21, 2025

Categories

  • Events and Announcements
  • Opinion and Analysis
  • Organization Updates
  • Partner Projects, Initiatives and Collaborations
  • Policy & Advocacy
  • Resource Library
  • Trainings and Student Opportunities
  • Uncategorized

Tags

ACA ACEs Active Listening Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Aging Equity Center Awards Gala Behavioral health Behavioral Health Primary Care Integration birth justice Chicago Area Health Education Center Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program Chicago City Council Community Health Workers Education Environmental Justice Forum Free Gala Health & Medicine Awards Health & Medicine Leadership Health care Health Care Safety Net Center Healthcare workforce Health equity Health policy Health reform Health Sector Workforce Initiatives Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative Illinois Aging Together Immigrant Rights Immigration In-Person In the News Long-term care reform Medicaid policy Policy and Advocacy Public Health Equity Center Racial Justice reproductive justice Schweitzer Seed Grant Solidarity Summit Strategic Plan Webinar

Health & Medicine
Policy Research Group
29 E. Madison St. Suite 602
Chicago, Illinois 60602

Phone (312) 372-4292
Fax (312) 372-2753
info@hmprg.org

© 2025 Health & Medicine Policy Research Group. All Rights Reserved | Tax ID 36-3143826 | Privacy Policy