"When Sinai contacted us about creating a unique collaborative approach, it was promising, and we both were very enthusiastic," said O'Keefe, who jointly announced the collaboration in September with Sinai President and CEO Karen Teitelbaum. Medicine that includes the Level 1 pediatric trauma program, the Burn and Complex Wound Center and the expanded emergency room that will be built adjacent to the acute care center that opened two years ago. The new adult trauma care will become part of an integrated health system network at U. Sinai got the news just two days ago, a spokeswoman said. Medicine officials decided it would be more cost-effective and a better use of staff resources to add trauma care to the new emergency room expansion project already planned for the campus, according to Sharon O'Keefe, president of the medical center. Medicine was to foot the bill for the $40 million project that still would have left much of the South Side underserved.Īfter weeks of studying the Holy Cross proposal, U. Medicine ditched a partnership formed just three months ago with Sinai Health Systems to open a trauma center at Holy Cross Hospital on the Southwest Side. So in a surprise move, the hospital decided to step out on its own and open a trauma unit in early 2018. Medicine abandoned its long-standing counterargument that trauma care on the underserved South Side should not be its responsibility alone. University of Chicago Medicine's announcement Thursday that it would add Level 1 adult trauma care to its Hyde Park campus culminated a decadeslong battle with South Side residents who insisted that the university had a civic duty to provide services in an area that suffers disproportionately from gun violence.
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