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    Jun 8
    Important Notice: expect Hyde Park-area traffic delays June 15-21. If you are visiting our Hyde Park medical campus, Cottage Grove or Kenwood clinics between Monday, June 15, and Sunday, June 21, please plan for significant traffic and area road closures.
    Photo of UChicago Medicine's center for care and discovery Headline: Important Notice: Expect Hyde Park-Area Traffic Delays June 15–21 UChicago Medicine will be fully operational during the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center. UChicago Medicine
    If you are visiting our Hyde Park medical campus, Cottage Grove or Kenwood clinics from June 15-21, plan for traffic and area road closures due to the Obama Presidential Center grand opening and local Juneteenth celebrations. Image of a map of the UChicago campus: OPC Grand Opening Road Closures Yellow 6/8-6/22 60th (Blackstone to Stony Island) Pink 6/8-6/19 6 AM 60th (Dorchester to Blackstone) Blackstone (60th to Midway EB) Purple 6/11-6/12 Stony Island NB (62nd to Midway WB) Blue 6/15-6/19 6 AM Stony Island (63rd to Midway WB) Midway WB (Dorchester to Stony Island) Midway EB (Dorchester to Stony Island) Cornell (57th to Stony Island) Green 6/15-6/19 6 AM 59th EB (Harper to Stony Island) Stony Island NB (59th to 57th) Black 6/15-6/19 11:59 PM Midway (Woodlawn to Dorchester) Dorchester (59th to 60th) Red 6/17-6/19 6 AM Midway (Ellis to Woodlawn) Woodlawn (59th to 60th) Light Blue 6/17 10 PM - 6/19 6 AM (side streets around Harper av) Residents to show provided placard to access
    We Are Open: All appointments, surgeries and procedures will proceed as scheduled at UChicago Medicine’s care facilities. Please allow extra travel time. Hyde Park Medical Campus: On June 18 and 19, expect peak congestion, major road closures (including 59th Street) and limited street parking, particularly along the Midway Plaisance. Cottage Grove and Kenwood Locations: Anticipate heavy neighborhood traffic and the possibility of limited street parking due to event overflow, especially June 18-21. UChicago Medicine
    For more information visit uchicagomedicine.org/opc or call 1-888-824-0200 UChicago Medicine
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    Jun 20, 2024
    First-year residents got a tour of Chicago's South Side from @6figga_dilla to learn more about the people and community they'll care for at UChicago Medicine.
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    Jun 24, 2022
    As an academic health system based in Illinois, where abortion remains legal, and the only hospital-based abortion provider on Chicago’s South Side, the University of Chicago Medicine plays an essential role for the community and for patients needing high-quality care. Our organization has a lengthy record of providing high-quality, evidence-based reproductive healthcare and a strong reputation of training the brightest future physicians to offer these clinical services to patients. This involves a broad range of medical care, including abortion, contraception/family planning, fertility treatment, care for general and high-risk pregnancies, and miscarriage management. These are common services that are integral to obstetrical and gynecological medicine and a vital part of comprehensive medical education for physicians in training. Our health system remains committed to providing the full spectrum of safe reproductive healthcare and is preparing for how we can best serve patients who
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    Mar 27, 2020
    Healthcare workers are heroes. Have an encouraging message you want to send? Let us know! Any art from kids you'd like us to share? Send us a direct message. Together, through staying home, donating blood, supporting workers, and more, we can make #thousandsofdifferences.
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    Jan 21, 2019
    Today in slime news: the fossilized slime of a 100-million-year-old hagfish shook up the vertebrate family tree. ms.spr.ly/6013TBfqU
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    Feb 3, 2016
    Huge thanks to @MattForte22 from the @ChicagoBears for visiting the kids at #ComerChildrens today!
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    Nov 25, 2021
    On Thanksgiving Day, our transplant teams performed two successful heart transplants. This brings our total number of heart transplants in 2021 to 55, an institution record.
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    Sep 14, 2022
    We would like to congratulate the @chicagosky on another hard-fought and exciting season. We can't wait to see you next year!
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    May 28, 2019
    For years, @wnbachicagosky star Diamond DeShields struggled with an eye condition called #keratoconus. UChicago Medicine specialists fitted her in specialized lenses, which have improved her focus on and off the court. ms.spr.ly/6018Tyh26
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    Oct 17, 2020
    The UChicago Medicine Neurocritical Care Unit is excited to be the first medical center in Chicago to bring a portable MRI device to patients’ bedsides for better understanding of the early effects of traumatic brain injuries.
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    Jan 4, 2019
    A historic first: UChicago Medicine transplant teams performed back-to-back triple transplants within 27 hours. Two 29-year-old patients from Michigan and Illinois are recovering following transplants to replace their failing hearts, livers and kidneys. ms.spr.ly/6017TB603
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    Feb 14, 2021
    Twelve couples got vaccinated today in @UChicagoMed’s COVID-19 vaccine clinic. Meet longtime sweethearts Dorothy and Lloyd, who’ve been married for 50 years and live on the South Side. They even wore red for the occasion. #COVID19Vaccine
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    UChicago Medicine
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    Dec 5, 2017
    Chicago’s newest adult emergency department opens on the 29th. This morning we’re celebrating the completion of this project. #AtTheForefront
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    Mar 20, 2020
    Listen to Dr. @emilymicheleL's address about the importance of staying home during today's #COVID19 press conference here: