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Health Equity

Promoting Healing, Inspiring Students

Partnership with local arts program leads to improvements in patient experience

Who gets the chance to be healthy? Rush Tower message update.
Health Equity

Rush Tower Sign Starts a Conversation: Who Gets the Chance to Be Healthy?

Who gets the chance to be healthy? 鈥孖deally, everyone should.

Exterior of the Fimore Linen Service building
Health Equity

Rush Signs on as First Partner for Local Laundry Service

Partnership with Fillmore Linen Service brings anchor mission to life

Ribbon cutting ceremony for the emergency department food pantry
Health Equity

Healing Through Food Access

海角原创 opens a food pantry located in the emergency department

From left to right: Kumar B. Rajan, PhD; Amina Ahmed, MD; John W. Burns, PhD; Kerstin Stenson, MD, FACS; and Monique Reed, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN.
University

Fueling Rush鈥檚 Future

Donor-supported endowments drive the work of Rush University faculty members in perpetuity

From left to right: Kirsten A. Dickins, PhD, AM, Rachel L. Boutt茅, PhD, MDiv, and Esther Lee, MD, MPH
Health Equity

Making Strides in Closing Health Care Gaps

Philanthropic funding enables Rush faculty to advance research aimed at reducing health disparities locally and globally

Health Equity

Julia Bassett on Food Distributions Through RUSH

There is only one grocery store for over 17,000 Garfield Park residents. Watch how Julia Bassett and her team are working to fill the gap so people can live healthier lives

Chuka Nestor Emezue, PhD, MPH, MPA, CHES
University

RUSH University College of Nursing Assistant Professor Earns ITM Pilot Award

Award to Chuka Nestor Emezue, PhD, MPH, provides $60,000 in funding, resources to kick-start innovative research projects

John Rich, MD, MPH
Health Equity

Healing Communities Facing Health Inequities: Q&A with John Rich

John Rich, MD, MPH, of the RUSH BMO Institute for Health Equity believes innovative thinking, collaboration can reduce violence, poverty and health disparities

Harrison Steans
Health Equity

Legacy of Harrison I. Steans Lives on Through $5M Gift to Rush to Improve Equity

Three families honor the prominent figure in Chicago鈥檚 banking industry with a major gift to the RUSH BMO Institute for Health Equity