General Health Care

8 organizations offer general health care services to Westside residents:

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Austin Cook County Health Center
Circle Family Care
Loretto Hospital
New Age Services
PCC Community Wellness Center
Reaching the Mark, Inc.
Westside Health Authority
Westside Holistic Family Services

Austin Cook County Health Center

Address:
4909 W Division St.
Chicago, IL 60651
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Telephone: (773) 845-8000

Hours:
    Monday              8 AM-4:30 PM
    Tuesday            8 AM-8 PM
    Wednesday      8 AM-8 PM
    Thursday           8 AM-8 PM
    Friday                8 AM-4:30 PM
    Open every first and third Saturday of the month,
    8 AM-4:30 PM

Mission: Our mission as a team of qualified health care professional is to identify and address the medical, social, and psychological problems affecting adults and children of the Austin community and surrounding area. We will seek to do all this in a manner that is caring but completely professional.

Services:

• Internal medicine
• OB/GYN (women's health and pregnancy)
• PEDS (pediatrics)
• PSYCH (psychological and mental health services)
• Nutrition
• Social Work
  
  

Circle Family Care

Address:
5002 West Madison Ave.
Chicago, IL 60644
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Telephone: (773) 379-1000

Fax: (773) 379-1342

Web Site: www.circlefamilycare.org

Mission: From a Christian foundation, Circle Family Care improves the quality of life of the underserved African American and Hispanic residents of Chicago's westside by providing an array of whole-person medical, behavioral, social, and educational services.

Services: Through three convenient Westside locations (listed below), Circle Family Care Health services division providers are mending broken lives as well as align bodies. Health services division programs provide full medical care including:

• Doctors appointments
• Walk-in care
• 24-hour urgent care
• In-patient hospital care

• child wellness care
• birthing
• women's health care
• elderly care
• immunization
• health screening
• health education

4909 W. Division St.
Chicago, IL 60651
773-921-8100

118 N. Central St.
Chicago, IL
773-287-2600
*This site hosts Circle Family Care's Family & Individual Counseling Programs and our Foster Care Program.

4958 W. Madison St.
Chicago, IL
773-378-3900
*This site provides free STD testing, treatment, and counseling.

Loretto Hospital

Address:
645 S. Central Ave.
Chicago, IL 60644
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Telephone: (773) 626-4300

Fax: (773) 626-2613

Web site: www.lorettohospital.org

Mission: To be a community healthcare provider fostering continuous performance improvement.  To achieve optimum outcomes for our patients, cultivate pride in our employees and medical staff.

Loretto Hospital has been providing healthcare services to the Austin community for more than 60 years.  As the only hospital and largest employer in the community, Loretto is committed to community improvement and progress.  Through our many healtcare services, volunteer opportunities and community outreach activities, Loretto is becoming an active and valued community participant.

Loretto is working to be a premier healthcare provider to the Austin community.  In line with that goal, the hospital has added to its’ services a Center for WoundCare and Hyperbaric Medicine, designed to treat those individuals with difficult to heal sores or wounds.  Loretto is also renewing its’ commitment to the community through the Hospital’s Family Care center.  As we move further into the new millennium, Loretto Today is a Hospital with the Community in mind.

Services:

Ambulatory Care Center
Main Hospital
(773) 854.5474

Loretto Family Care Center
Austin YMCA
501 N. Central Avenue
(773) 378.0531

Cicero Family Care Center
5729 W. Cermak Road
(708) 652.5800

North Avenue Family Care Center
5810 W. North Avenue
(773) 854.5818

Center for WoundCare and Hyperbaric Medicine
Main Hospital
(773) 854.4176

New Age Services

Address:
1330 South Kostner
Chicago, IL 60623
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Telephone: (773) 542-1150

Fax: (773) 542-1175

Mission: Our mission is to empower at-risk persons in the community by providing a comprehensive range of treatment and preventive services including but not limited to health, education, social and economic endeavors.

Services:

• Individual counseling sessions
• Group Therapy
• Parenting Classes
• HIV Early Interventions
• Pre and post-test Counseling
• Women’s Group

PCC Community Wellness Center

Address:
14 W. Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
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Phone: (708) 383-0113

Fax: (708) 383-9911

Web site: http://www.ebvonline.org/PCC/PCCCWC.html

Mission: Our mission is to promote health care services and programs, to establish, maintain, and promote a community health center environment that provides high quality primary health care services to the community with particular focus upon the health care needs of medically underserved populations.

Services: The following services are available at PCC and at our other location, Austin Family Healthcare Center, at 335 North Mason Avenue, Chicago, IL 60644.

• Adult Medicine
• Prenatal Care and Delivery
• OB/Gyn Services
• Prenatal Classes
• Pediatric Care
• Social Services/Psychiatric Counseling
• Family Planning
• Health Education
• Immunizations/School Physicals
• Disease Screening
• WIC Form Completion
• Home Nursing Visits

Reaching The Mark, Inc.

Address:
800 S. Cicero
Chicago, IL 60644
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Telephone: (773) 473-4530

Fax: (773) 626-4284

Mission: Our mission is to serve humanity by providing prevention, intervention, treatment and support programs aimed at improving the quality of life.  Reaching The Mark places special emphasis on the protection, development and nurturing of children and adolescents, the empowerment of the downtrodden and disadvantaged and the support and preservation of the family.

RTM serves approximately 650 clients on a daily basis and employs over 64 individuals.  RTM is licensed by the Illinois department of children and family services and is accredited by the Illinois council on accreditation (C.O.A).

Services:

• Traditional foster care
• Relative foster care
• Group home
• Home health care
• Employment training
• Community counseling

Westside Health Authority

Address:
5437 W. Division
Chicago, IL 60651
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Phone: (773) 378 0233

Fax: (773) 378 5035

Email:  info@healthauthority.org

Web site: http://www.healthauthority.org

Mission: The Westside Health Authority (WHA) acts as a vehicle for citizens on the Westside of Chicago to use in building their individual and community capacity in order to lead wholesome, healthy, and prosperous community lives.  Our mission is to use the capacity of local people to improve the health and well-being of westside residents, and to preserve existing institutions associated with health services.

Services: Please visit our web site for up-to-date information on our services offered and activities.

Westside Holistic Family Services

Address:
4909 W. Division
Chicago, IL 60651
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Telephone: (312) 921-8777

Mission: To strengthen the family and community through a Holistic approach which fosters physical, emotional, psychological, educational and spiritual well-being.

Services:

• Health care programs:
•  Prenatal care for parents
•  Care for parents of children under one year of age
•  Pregnant teen program
•  Prenatal information, child care information
• Adult education classes
• Counseling Service
• Health & support service for moms
• Job training & placement
• Parenting Service
• Support program for women
• Youth programs:
• Alternative high school
• Mentoring program