Health Care
Congresswoman Robin Kelly announced today that Aunt Martha's Health and Wellness Center, based in Olympia Fields, was awarded two federal grants totaling $12.1 million and Harvey-based Family Christian Health Center was awarded $2.2 million in federal funding.
Weeks ago, as it became clear that a deadly pandemic was spreading to the U.S. and that individuals with underlying medical conditions are more at risk, I worried that African American and Latinos would be hard hit due to long-standing disparities.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL) and Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL) introduced the bipartisan Solid Start Reporting Act. The legislation establishes oversight baselines for a newly created program to support veteran mental health during the first year after departing military service.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswomen Robin Kelly (IL-02) and Joyce Beatty (OH-03) led a letter
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Robin L. Kelly (IL-02), Rep. Danny K. Davis (IL-07), and Illinois Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (8th) sent a letter to University of Illinois President Timothy L. Killeen requesting a meeting following disturbing revelations brought to their attention at UIC’s Dental School.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit African American and Hispanic and Latino communities especially hard in terms of infection and death.
Across the United States, women die of pregnancy-related complications at a higher rate than in any other similarly large, wealthy country in the world. Expanding Medicaid will save the lives of women and babies and save money in our health care system. But the two states that we represent in the U.S.
As of early April, around 72 percent of the people who had died from the coronavirus in Chicago were African-American. Rep.