Our Chicago: Northwestern's Bronzeville Outpatient Center marks 1 year
Northwestern Medicine's Bronzeville Outpatient Center has completed its first year of operation, providing essential medical services to an underserved Chicago community. The facility has seen over 80,000 appointments and added pediatric care based on local feedback.
Why it matters
The center serves as a model for addressing healthcare disparities and improving life expectancy in historically underserved urban neighborhoods.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The medical director of Northwestern Medicine's Bronzeville Outpatient Center said when it opened a year ago that it would make a "generational impact on the health and wellness of the community."
The facility at 48th and Cottage Grove was designed with that community in mind.
A community that has often been underserved. The facility includes a cancer center, primary and immediate care along with fourteen medical specialties.
And because of community input, pediatric care was added. It seems people have responded.
"In our first year we've seen over 80,000 completed appointments there and it has truly just been amazing," said the center's medical director, Dr. Kimbra Bell. "The community has really embraced us and we're so happy to be there. And we know that we're impacting the health of persons in the community for generations to come."
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