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Emergency room physician Dr. Marina Del Rios was the first person in Chicago to be vaccinated for COVID-19 today, one of five hospital workers to get shots.
“It’s really an honor to stand here and take part in this moment in history,” said Del Rios, director of Social Emergency Medicine at University of Illinois Health. “As an emergency physician who has been on the front lines of this pandemic since day one, I can attest that health care workers have been anxious for this day to come.”
Local officials, community activists and Mercy Hospital and Medical Center employees attend a protest outside Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Bronzeville on Sept. 3. They demanded Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot keep the hospital open, saying its closure will further increase the inequities in Black and Brown communities. The facility is set to close in 2021.
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Talk of closing Mercy Hospital next year couldn’t have come at a worse time, with the city fighting a pandemic that acutely affects the South Side, a place where health care choices are already too few and far between.
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QUINCY â Quincy Medical Group officials revealed their plans Thursday to build a 25-bed nonprofit hospital adjacent to their property at the west end of the Quincy Mall.
The Quincy Medical Group Hospital will eventually sit directly north of the QMG Cancer Institute and Surgery Center and is scheduled to open by late 2024 or early 2025.
The $61 million project will feature a 68,000-square-foot, three-floor structure. About $40 million of that price tag will cover construction, the remaining $21 million will be for equipment.
QMG is working with Cullinan Properties, a real estate/development company based in Peoria, Chicago and St. Louis. Cullinan Properties owns the Quincy Mall.