Shane Phillips and Shayna Oshita members of team awarded $14 million in funding to improve health care in Chicago’s South and West Sides

Shane Phillips and Shayna Oshita are members of “TrAnsfoRming the Gage Park/West Elsdon communiTy through Partnership to improve access to specialty care and comprehensive health services (T.A.R.G.E.T HEALTH),” a team awarded around $14 million to improve health care in Gage Park and West Elsdon as part of the new program, Healthcare Transformation Collaboratives.

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services will administer the award with the goal of reorienting healthcare in Illinois to reduce healthcare inequities, improve health outcomes, address social determinants of health, and remedy persistent difficulty for underserved communities to access quality healthcare.

Read a Chicago Sun Times article on the program: chicago.suntimes.com/2021/7/2/22561034/south-west-side-health-illinois-pritzker-roseland-uic-sinai-uchicago-st-bernard.