Critical Care In A Mission Accomplished Zone - South Side Of Chicago 45 Minutes From Trauma Care

Chicago Now: Much of Chicago's South Side is more than 45 minutes from the nearest trauma center by ambulance

What I As A Black Man Am SUPPOSED To Argue:  
"People in the predominately Black Southside of Chicago are having their 'Social Justice' denied to them.  The great distance that they must travel after suffering a trauma injury leads to a countless number of deaths.   We must unite together as a community and push to have the value of Black Life respected by demanding equal resources in our community.


What I Am Driven To Say As A Researcher Of The Modern Day Black Political Discourse And Its Associated Hijacking Into The "Malcolm X Political Football Game" For Power Rather Than Our People's Interests:
With Chicago being one of the most solid 'Mission Accomplished Zones' that you could ever hope to create in this nation and yet despite the aggrieved presences in the South Side of the city - the people who have been cajoled to fuse their "Community Development Consciousness" into a particular methodology and vehicle by investing their "Equal Black Ballots" for a longer period of time than most other metro areas - IF THEY don't value their own lives as shown by their refusal to continue down this path - and instead focusing upon a more local, organic process of uplift - THERE IS NOTHING THAT I CAN DO FOR THEM.   They have chosen to value their starting positions in the game over their own Permanent Interests.

Have Them Go Back To Their "Investment Advisers" and attempt to get some of their principle back.  It worked for Bernie Madoff's clients that were taken.

Ironically more Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chasers will claim that I HATE BLACK PEOPLE per my disposition but will not bother to look at what the hijackers of our community consciousness are doing.

1. Where Are The Schools In Chicago That Are Producing More Medical Professional From The Institutions That Have Been Taken Over?


2. Where Is The Economic Development Results That Have Produced More Organic Wealth In These "Mission Accomplished" Areas?


3. If Violence Is Undue Source Of Trauma Care Victims - Where Are The Cultural And Behavioral Engineering To Mitigate This Source

Don't bother to itemize the CHECK LIST of what has been done.  SHOW THE EFFECTIVE RESULTS and then ask about the "Comprehensiveness and Endurance" of these efforts?

From The Article: 

When someone is shot, stabbed or seriously injured due to a car accident, fall or some other trauma, every minute can make a crucial difference to the patient’s overall outcome, said Connie Potter, president of the Trauma Center Association of America.

“It’s like Gabby Giffords,” Potter said, referring to U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, who was critically injured by a gunshot wound to the head during a public event in January. According to news reports, Giffords and six other victims were all transported to a trauma center within 50 minutes of the shooting. Six of the seven survived.

But most adults suffering trauma on Chicago’s South Side can’t get to a trauma center by ambulance as fast as Giffords did. “[If Giffords was shot on the South Side] in Chicago, she’d be in a nursing home if she was alive at all,” Potter said.

That’s because there’s no adult trauma center located in Chicago south of 16th Street. As a result, significant portions of 19 South Side communities are not within 45 minutes of the nearest trauma center by ambulance, according to a Chicago Reporter analysis of a 2010 American Trauma Society map of Illinois trauma centers. The American Trauma Society provides an online interactive map to locate trauma centers across the United States and map the areas within 45 minutes or an hour of those trauma centers by ambulance or helicopter. All of Chicago is within 45 minutes of a trauma center by helicopter, according to the American Trauma Society map of Illinois.

Trauma is the leading cause of death for people under the age of 45, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Chicago, since 2008, more than 1,560 people have been murdered by some form of trauma—the vast majority by shooting or stabbing—with more than 40 percent of the murders occurring in those 19 South Side communities, according to a Chicago Reporter analysis of city homicide data. They are: Avalon Park, Burnside, Calumet Heights, Chatham, East Side, Englewood, Grand Boulevard, Greater Grand Crossing, Hyde Park, Kenwood, Pullman, Roseland, South Chicago, South Deering, South Shore, Washington Park, West Englewood, West Pullman and Woodlawn.

Potter, whose organization has lobbied Congress to provide more funding to develop more trauma centers, called Chicago’s trauma system “unique” in its lack of coverage when compared to other major cities throughout the country. “Chicago leaving that large of a community without at least a level 2 [trauma center] is unique except for Atlanta,” Potter said.

Trauma centers, unlike most hospital emergency rooms, are specifically equipped to handle severe injuries both in resources, such as equipment, as well as personnel, such as surgeons and specialists, who are required to be available 24 hours a day. A facility’s level designation tells the degree of care it can provide—with levels 1 and 2 being among the highest and level 4 the lowest.

The last adult trauma care center located on the city’s South Side shut down in 1990, at the now-closed Michael Reese Hospital in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Two years earlier, the University of Chicago Medical Center in Hyde Park closed its adult trauma center, citing its high expense to maintain, although its pediatric trauma center remains in operation.

Since that time, victims of trauma on the South Side have been transported to one of five adult trauma centers in and around Chicago; John H. Stroger Hospital and Mount Sinai Medical Center on the city's West Side, Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Hospital on the North Side, or Advocate Christ Medical Center in south suburban Oak Lawn.