In the News : Cook County Health & Hospital System
CA/IL Co-Director Lynda DeLaforgue on Tinley Park Mental Health Center Closing
Date:
01/20/2012
Citizen Action/Illinois Co-Director Lynda DeLaforgue on the announcement by Governor Pat Quinn that the state is closing the Tinley Park Mental Health Center in early July, from the Herald-News, January 19, 2012:
Who will pick up Oak Forest patients?
Date:
05/26/2011 
Religious leaders, community members, organized labor, nurses and patients continue to call on County President Preckwinkle to stop the closure of Oak Forest Hospital on May 31st and work with the community to develop a plan that improves health care for southern Cook County.
Read Citizen Action/Illinois Co-Director Lynda DeLaforgue's column in the SouthTown Star:
Oak Forest patients plead to keep care
Date:
07/22/2010 
Oak Forest patients plead to keep care
July 22, 2010
By Maura Possley
By bus and by train, 2 1 / 2 hours had passed before Lee Mayberry arrived at Cook County Stroger Hospital on Chicago's West Side from the south suburbs. It was a taste of what may be to come for Mayberry, who long has relied on the services of the county-run Oak Forest Hospital to treat his rare lung condition.
Letter to the Editor: An Efficient Cook County Public Health System
Date:
11/05/2009 
The Emergency Network to Save Cook County Health Services was among the earliest proponents of an independent county health system board, and we too welcome its efforts to create an efficient public health care system ("Don't back down," Editorial, Nov. 4).
Source:
Chicago Tribune 