Decrease health disparities by coordinating and scaling prioritized interventions across hospitals & community partners.
WSU, partners, and other community members collaborated to apply for and win a designation as a Best Baby Zone for East Garfield Park; the first and only designation in Illinois.
To learn more about supporting health & healthcare in our 10 communities, please email WSU at: info@westsideunited.org
WSU tracks the progress of our initiatives; we also track changes in community-level data to monitor progress towards our overarching goals and inform our actions and projects on the ground. We selected 3 Health & Healthcare metrics from our comprehensive measurement framework to highlight key areas of focus. For more information about our comprehensive framework, please click here.
In our metrics dashboard, we are tracking:
This measure shows the percentage of births with a valid gestational age of less than 37 weeks. Babies who are born too early (especially before 32 weeks) have higher rates of death and disability.
Self-rated health can help us understand the perception of health among community members. Since it is linked with objective health, it is also a good way to get a sense of community members’ actual health status. This measure shows the percent of adults age 18 and older who reported their overall health as good, very good, or excellent.
Access to quality health care is a primary concern of West Side residents. This measure shows the percent of adults age 18 and older who reported that it’s usually or always easy to get needed care, tests, or treatment.