UI Health offers transplant services in Englewood

Mile Square Health Center at Englewood

WHAT:
Secretary of State Jesse White will join UI Health patients and caregivers at a ribbon-cutting and open house to mark the opening of a transplant clinic at Mile Square Health Center Englewood.

“There are about 5,000 people waiting for an organ transplant in Illinois,” says White. “Many of those are now able to receive valuable services in their community, thanks to facilities like the Mile Square Health Center.

“However, let’s continue to encourage friends and family to take a simple step towards ending the waiting of others by signing up to become organ/tissue donors.  Just register at www.LifeGoesOn.com.”

The clinic will offer pre- and post-kidney transplant services the fourth Tuesday of every month. To schedule an appointment, call 312-996-6771.

WHO:
Ill. Rep. Mary Flowers and Ald. JoAnn Thompson will also attend.

WHEN:
Wed., Aug. 21
10 a.m.

WHERE:
Mile Square Health Center Englewood
641 W. 63rd St.

DETAILS:
Mile Square is a federally qualified health center managed by the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System and dedicated to providing high quality, cost-effective, accessible and holistic healthcare that meets the needs of the community. Mile Square’s main site, at 2045 W. Washington Blvd., sees an estimated 75,000 patient visits for more than 24,000 people, many with incomes below the federal poverty level. The center has 11 additional clinics in the South Shore, Back of the Yards, Englewood and Cicero areas, as well as four school-based health centers associated with the UIC School of Public Health, and three UIC College of Nursing clinics that provide primary care for patients with chronic mental illness. Mile Square will open a new facility at Roosevelt Road and Wood Street in 2014.