02/04/2026
Chicago Northside Collaborative, a Healthcare Transformation Collaborative funded by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, is a partnership with a common goal of improving access to specialty care and services and addressing health care disparities that impact the communities in the Northside of Chicago. Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital , together with the five collaborating FQHCs: Erie Family Health Centers, Heartland Health Centers, Hamdard Healthcare, AHS Family Health Center, and Howard Brown Health, are embedding specialists at FQHCs and have onboarded additional specialists to increase access to care and overall to continue providing comprehensive, high-quality, and abundant access to primary care for their community.
The Chicago Northside Collaborative has successfully reduced ED visits by 52%, IP admits by 48%, and IP re-admits by 19% post 12 months of Chicago Northside’s interventions, thus decreasing the overall cost of care by 28% per month.
We are proud of these outcomes and their innovative model to improve access to care and increase the overall quality of life and well-being for Medicaid recipients in the Chicago Northside.