Equity-focused primary care network in Chicago

Abstract

Primary care is essential to equity, providing a “front door” to preventative healthcare and access to specialty care. Healthcare accessibility can be defined as the opportunities such as public transportation for residents at various locations to obtain healthcare services . Our project is an equity-focused healthcare effort to re-imagine the infrastructure for primary care in Chicago Area. Driven by persistent and deadly deficits in human health among residents of Chicago’s most underinvested neighborhoods, our project aims to combine a cost-effective, community-tailored primary care model with a geographic optimization strategy that locates primary care centers. The model is integrated with data-based computational tools, and implemented by using large-scale solution algorithms.