Advocate Charitable Foundation $30,000
Mobile Dental Program - 2008
Toward staff salaries and supplies for the Mobile Dental Program.

Casa Central $15,000
Adult Wellness Center - 2008
To support the Adult Wellness Center that addresses the need for targeted bilingual/bicultural day program services for low income Hispanic elderly.

Centro de Salud Esperanza $60,000
Nursing Support - 2008
Toward nursing and clerical support at this community health clinic that serves the Lawndale communities.

Circle Family Care $50,000
Mobile Health Team and Respite Care Pilot Program - 2008
To support healthcare provided to residents at homeless shelters and to pilot a program that provides care to homeless persons recently released from a hospital.

Community Health, Inc. $71,500
Nursing Services Free Clinic - 2008
Toward the salaries and benefits of three nurses at this free clinic.

Deborahs Place $15,000
Health Services Program - 2008
To support the Health Services Program that assists women with accessing healthcare, and provides health education and referrals.

Erie Family Health Center $50,000
Electronic Health Record System - 2008
To purchase specialized work stations necessary to launch an electronic health record system at its Humboldt Park center.

Fox Valley Volunteer Hospice $5,000
Voluntarios de Fox Valley Volunteer Hospice - 2008
To support a program that recruits and trains Spanish speaking volunteers to provide hospice care.

Health and Medicine Policy Research Group $42,000
Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program - 2008
To fund six nursing fellows to provide service in medically underserved areas of Chicago.

Housing Opportunities for Women $30,000
Health Services Program - 2008
Toward the salary of a Patient Navigator who provides education and links women and children with services.

Illinois Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped $25,000
Dental Housecalls Program - 2008
To fund the Dental Housecalls Program of free or discounted dental care for disabled or elderly Chicago residents.

Jane Addams Hull House Association $27,500
Medical Case Management - 2008
To support medical case management for individuals and families who live in supportive housing.

Planned Parenthood Chicago Area $45,000
Colposcopy Program and APRN Training Program - 2008
To support and expand free or discounted colposcopy services and necessary follow up care.

Rape Victim Advocates $20,000
General Operating Support - 2008
Support to assist the agency with the provision of services to survivors of sexual assault.

South Suburban PADS $31,000
Homeless Healthcare Network - 2008
To support two nurse coordinators who oversee services offered at shelter sites and for OTC medications.

Teen Living Programs $65,000
Health Services Program - 2008
To support its health program for homeless youth.

Thresholds $40,000
Nursing Support - 2008
To initiate on site nursing services for persons with severe and persistent mental illness at its Waukegan facility.

YWCA of Evanston/North Shore $15,000
Domestic Violence Services Health Program - 2008
To support health education services to victims of domestic violence housed in its emergency shelter and transitional housing units.

Grand Total 17 items $637,000

Chicago Family Health Center $5,000
In support of its mobile health homeless program that serves seven shelters on Chicago's south side.

Chicago Communities in Schools $40,000
To coordinate schools and services providers to facilitate the delivery of various services in more than 150 Chicago public schools for students, their families, school staff and community members.

Chinese American Service League $45,000
Towards the salary of a nurse for this program that provides homemaking and preventive health services for homebound senior citizens.

Community Nurse Health Association $51,528
For salary support for part-time nurse practitioners who staff the pediatric and adult clinics at this agency serving low income families in the western suburbs.

Connections for the Homeless $30,000
For the salary of a nurse, medical supplies, and administrative costs at this shelter for homeless adults.

DuPage Community Clinic $50,000
For nurse salaries and database management at a free clinic in DuPage County.

Family Network $25,000
To support an early intervention program in Southeast Lake County for at-risk families who are expecting a baby, or have a child up to four years old.

Maryville Academy $28,000
Toward two nurses who work in the Chicago area Crisis Nursery.

North Side Housing & Supportive Services $27,500
For a Nurse Practitioner to staff a clinic at this shelter for homeless men.

PCC Community Wellness Center $60,000
To improve the health outcomes of pregnant women, new mothers and their children through prenatal classes, home visits and hospital outreach.

Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago $25,000
To provide flu and pneumonia vaccinations to the medically underserved.

Seguin Services, Inc. $25,000
Support toward nurses who provide healthcare services to foster children with disabilities.

Suburban Primary Health Care Council $30,174
In support of its program allowing the uninsured to receive care at minimal charge from local primary care physicians.

Grand Total 13 items $442,202

Concern America   $25,000
Emerging Health Care Leadership Program
To improve health care to underserved communities by encouraging community nursing, providing hands-on community-centered learning opportunities, and building support and capacity for community health care.

Evanston Township High School Health Center   $25,000
District 65 Pathway to Healthcare
To extend primary care services to high-risk, often uninsured students in the elementary and middle schools that feed into Evanston Township High School.

Hospice of Northeastern Illinois   $50,000
Pediatric Hospice
Toward the salary and benefits of two part-time nurses who provide highly specialized, in-home palliative and hospice care to children.

Interfaith Council for the Homeless   $20,000
Shelter Graduates-Housing First/Sanctuary Place
Toward the salary of a nurse practitioner to provide health service to formerly homeless women and families living in supportive housing.

Interfaith House   $50,000
Recuperative Care Center
To provide care for homeless people after they have been released from a hospital or ER.

Juvenile Protective Association   $50,000
Non-Organic Failure to Thrive Project
To provide comprehensive parenting and mental health services to low income, medically underserved families with Non-Organic Failure to Thrive infants.

Westside Health Authority   $60,000
Managing the Metabolic Syndrome
To screen residents of the Austin community for the metabolic syndrome and refer them to appropriate intervention and primary care services.

Grand Total (7 items) $280,000

Alivio Medical Center $19,700
Centering Pregnancy
To fund nurse midwife training and supplies to implement the Centering Pregnancy model of care at two community-based clinic sites.

Casa Central $15,000
Adult Day Care Program
Toward nursing support to monitor the health of low income program participants.

Chicago Abused Women Coalition $40,000
Hospital Crisis Intervention Program
To provide direct services to victims of domestic violence, and training about domestic violence screening and referral for Cook County Ambulatory Care providers .

Deborah's Place $15,000
Health Services Program
For general support of its health services program for women.

Erie Family Health Center $50,000
Expansion of Maternal Care Program
To support the expansion of the Maternal Care Program which provides women, regardless of ability to pay, with comprehensive prenatal care.

Fox Valley Volunteer Hospice $5,000
Voluntarios de Fox Valley Volunteer Hospice
To assist with the recruitment and training of Spanish-speaking hospice volunteers.

Health and Medicine Policy Research Group $36,000
Chicago Schweitzer Fellows Program
To fund six nursing fellows who will provide direct service at community-based service sites in medically underserved areas within the city of Chicago.

Housing Opportunities for Women $30,000
Health Services
Toward the salary of a Patient Navigator who will help women and children in HOW's supportive housing program.

Jane Addams Hull House Association $27,500
Transitional Housing Program
Toward medical case management for formerly homeless individuals and families who live in supportive housing.

Lawndale Christian Health Center $40,000
Chronic Care Program Expansion
To continue to support the expansion of the chronic disease program to include patients with cardiovascular disease.

Pacific Garden Mission $40,000
Health Care Clinic
Toward the salary for a new Nurse Practitioner to staff a clinic serving homeless men, women and children.

Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area $25,000
Colposcopy Program
To support its low cost Colposcopy program.

San Miguel Schools Chicago $15,000
Family Support Program
Toward the Family Support Program that offers supportive health and social services from its Back of the Yards campus.

South Side Help Center $25,000
Youth Self Enhancement Program
To hire a health educator to provide school-based and after-school programs that focus on developing life skills and preventing violence.

South Suburban PADS $31,000
Homeless Healthcare Network
Toward the continued salary support of its two nurses who staff the Homeless Healthcare Network and for over-the-counter medications and supplies.

Teen Living Programs $65,000
Well Now! Health Program
For continued support of its Well Now! health program for youth who are homeless.

Visiting Nurse Association of Fox Valley $40,000
Growing to Serve Capital Campaign
Toward a capital campaign for a new medical facility.

YWCA of Evanston/North Shore $15,000
Domestic Violence Services Health Education
To support health education for women who have experienced domestic abuse.

Grand Total 18 items $534,200

Asian Human Services Family Health Center, Inc. $20,000
Chronic Diseasae Prevention Project
Toward the salary and benefits of a Nurse Coordinator to oversee the new project that will improve management of chronic illness.

American Indian Center $47,360
Health Outreach Services
Toward a program that includes outreach, screening, health education and referrals for American Indians.

Family Christian Health Center $75,000
Today Care Nurse Salary
To hire a Nurse Practitioner for a program providing non-emergent immediate medical care in Harvey.

Howard Area Community Center $39,361
Children, Youth and Family Health Promotion Project
To support the salary of a nurse at this agency serving low income families in Rogers Park.

Howard Brown Health Center $20,000
Broadway Youth Center
Toward the provision of medical care to high risk youth.

Infant Welfare Society of Chicago $60,000
Women's Clinic
To hire a lead nurse for its Women's Clinic in Chicago's West Logan Square neighborhood.

Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation $60,000
Asthma Van III
For a nurse to staff a third mobile van providing care to children with asthma.

Rape Victim Advocates $20,000
General Operating Support
To provide medical advocacy in ERs, counseling, prevention education and medical and legal advocacy to survivors of sexual assault and their significant others.

St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center $75,000
Pediatric Mobile Health Unit
Toward the salary of a Nurse Practitioner who will provide immunizations, health services and health education in a mobile health clinic.

Teen Parent Connection $25,000
Doula Program
To provide doula services to pregnant teens in DuPage County.

Tri City Health Partnership $20,000
General Operating Support
To support this free clinic in Kane County.

Well Child Center $30,000
Pediatric Dental Clinic
For staff and supplies at a dental clinic for children in Elgin.

Grand Total 13 items $491,700

AIDS Foundation of Chicago $50,000
Home Based Health Supportive Services
Toward the salary of a nurse who will provide intensive, home-based health and supportive services to residents of its supportive housing on the South Side.

American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago $45,000 
Influenza and Pneumonia Prevention Program
To provide flu and pneumonia vaccinations to the medically underserved.

Breakthrough Urban Ministries $20,000
Health Services at Joshua Center
To continue to provide health services to homeless women and children, and to neighborhood residents in Garfield Park.

Christian Community Health Center $45,000
MCH Nurse
Toward the salary of an RN to provide direct patient care and health education to women in the Greater Roseland and Calumet City areas.

Community Health $71,500
Nursing Program
Toward the salaries and benefits of three nurses at this free clinic.

Delnor-Community Health Care Foundation $20,000
Mother/Baby Home Care Visit Program
Toward home visits to un- or underinsured new moms and their babies in the far westernsuburbs.

Heartland Health Outreach $39,543
School Based Health Center at Senn High School
Toward nurse salaries at a school based health center in a high schoolon the North side of Chicago.

Horizon Hospice and Palliative Care $35,000
Pediatric Palliative Care Coordinator
Toward the salary of a nurse to provide direct care and coordinate the pediatric palliative care program.

Marillac Social Center $75,000
Family Nurse Practitioner for Child Care Social Service Agency
To hire a Nurse Practitioner to provide primary care, home visits, chronic disease management, referrals and health education for people of all ages on the west side.

Residents for Effective Shelter Transition $15,000
RESTCare Clinic
Toward medications and supplies for this free clinic.

The ARK $33,000
RN Clinical Manager at Free Medical Clinic
Toward support of a part-time nurse clinical manager for this free clinic.

The Night Ministry $55,000
Disease Treatment/Disease Self-Management Prgram
Toward a program to manage chronic diseases, such as hypertension and respiratory illness.

White Crane Wellness Center $40,000
Holistic Health Outreach Initiative
Toward community-based disease prevention and health promotion services for economically disadvantaged and medically underserved seniors in Chicago and suburban Cook and DuPage counties.

Y-ME Illinois $24,075
Traveling Mammography Program
To provide additional free mammograms in underserved areas in Chicago and Cook County.

YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago $35,000
Medical Advocates Program
To provide training about sexual assault to emergency room nurses and crisis intervention services to sexual assault victims admitted to emergency rooms.

Youth Guidance $18,582
Roberto Clemente High School Health Center
Toward clinician salaries and laboratory expenses.

Grand Total 16 items $621,700