Goals:
The Emergency Network to Save Cook County Health Services aims to restore availability and access to high quality health care services provided by Cook County Bureau of Health Services, including the focus on community, prevention, and early intervention; to assure adequate funding to maintain service levels and expand services as demand increases; and to improve efficacy in the governance and provision of services.

Strategy:
The establishment of an Emergency Trusteeship is the blueprint for restoring faith and public trust in the Cook County Health Care system.

The Emergency Trusteeship ordinance is being carried by 13th District Commissioner Larry Suffredin. The proposal would allow for immediate internal reforms, greater accountability, and recruitment of qualified senior leadership by establishing the Cook County Bureau of Health Trusteeship ("CCBOHT") for a term of three years.

Taxpayers must believe and see that the system is being managed and administered competently, transparently and without political interference. To do so, the health system should be removed from the political fray and administered by a temporary trusteeship that can act boldly to avert the immediate crisis and enact fundamental reforms. To read the ordinance please click here (ordinance).

To understand further why we support the concept of an Emergency Trusteeship, please click to read our fact sheet on the model of governance.

Campaign Partners

Organizations

13th District Community Health TF
Access Living
AFSCME Council 31
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Alivio Medical Center
Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
American Heart Association
Arab American Family Services
Asian Health Coalition of Illinois
Campaign for Better Healthcare
Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
Annette Marquez, Chicago Department of Public Health
Camille Rogers, Chicago Department of Public Health
Chicago Federation of Labor
Chicago Foundation for Women
Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues
Chicago Legal Clinic, INC.
Children's Advocacy Center
Citizen Action/IL
Center on Tax and Budget Accountability
Deborah's Place
Tina Escobar, School Health Nurse
Guildhaus
Health and Disability Advocates
Healthcare Consortium of Illinois
Heartland Alliance Human Care Service
Heartland Health Outreach
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
House Staff Association of Cook County Hospital
Illinois ACORN
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Interfaith Council for the Homeless
Jewish Child and Family Services
Lakeview Action Coalition
Lawndale Christian Health Center
Loyola University Medical Center - Dept. of Psychiatry
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
Manillac Social Center
March 10th Movement
Methodist Youth Services, Inc.
Near North Health Services
National Nurses Organizing Committee
Ounce of Prevention Fund
Physicians for a National Healthcare Program
Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area
Power-PAC
Proactive Community Services
Protestants for the Common Good
Rogers Park Community Action Network
Safety Net Hospitals
Sankofa Safe Child Initiative
SEIU Illinois Council
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
South Suburban Council on Alcoholism & Substance Abuse
Stroger Hospital Doctors Council, SEIU Loc 20
Janice Benson, MD, Stroger Hospital
Ellen Mason, MD, Stroger Hospital
Westside Health Authority
Xilin Association
YWCA Evanston/North Shore
Rev. John Harrell
Monica Rhodes, Concerned Citizen

Elected Officials

Federal Supporters
Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky

Cook County Supporters
Cook Co. Commissioner Forrest Claypool
Cook Co. Commissioner Earlean Collins
Cook Co. Commissioner Roberto Maldonado
Cook Co. Commissioner Joan Patricia Murphy
Cook Co. Commissioner Tony Peraica
Cook Co. Commissioner Mike Quigley
Cook Co. Commissioner Larry Suffredin

City of Chicago Supporters
Alderman Walter Burnett, Jr.
Alderman Rey Colon
Alderman Robert Fioretti
Alderman Manuel Flores
Alderman Toni L. Foulkes
Alderman Sandi Jackson
Alderman Ricardo Munoz
Alderman Ed Smith
Alderman JoAnn Thompson

Updated 10-22-2007