Yasmin Cavenagh

A health care worker speaks with a patient in the Emergency Department at Mount Sinai Hospital, Tuesday afternoon, March 21, 2023. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Chicago can become a model for reforming public health

What is needed is a rock-solid moral and financial commitment by elected officials in Illinois to continue to support public health. That includes pre- and post-natal care.

By Yasmin Cavenagh

The former building for Bontemps Elementary School at 1241 W. 58th St. in West Englewood on the South Side, Oct. 11, 2022.

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Nurses can lead the way to turn closed schools into neighborhood hubs for health

Imagine all of the social determinants of health that could be addressed by repurposing these schools into hubs for health.

By Yasmin Cavenagh