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Sinai Chicago celebrates its West Side history with new exhibit It aims to capture more than 100 years of services to Jewish, African- American, and Latino communities in and around North Lawndale By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
Sinai Chicago’s One Lawndale Community Care and Surgery Center in Ogden Commons has opened an exhibit to celebrate more than 100 years of the hospital’s history on Chicago’s West Side. The display on the first-floor lobby of One Lawndale Community Care and Surgery Center is made up of panels installed over a partial street map of North Lawndale and shows a timeline of Sinai Chicago. The exhibit is the first of its kind See SINAI on page 6
Residents at West Suburban decry ‘disgraceful’ conditions JESSICA MORDACQ
Iris Marin at West Suburban resident doctors’ unity break May 7 ulty have called on an accrediting agency to By JESSICA MORDACQ Resident doctors say a investigate whether the residency program is good enough to continue operating. lack of resources and The 26 resident doctors at the West About two dozen resident doctors at West worsening patient care Suburban Medical Center demonstrated in Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park May against what they said are wors- unionized in November, the first time have led them to demand early ening conditions and a lack of resources that medical staff there had done so. After struggling to meet with Prasad, since Dr. Manoj Prasad took ownership of a new contract for better the the Residents United at West Suburban hospital in December 2022. And in what residents call an unprecpatient safety See WEST SUB on page 4 edented move, the hospital’s teaching facStaff Reporter
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