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South Side Emergency Care

WTTW News | April 13, 2011, 7:00 pm

The premiere hospital on the South Side, the University of Chicago Medical Center, does not have an Adult Level 1 Trauma Center. Elizabeth Brackett reports on the level of emergency care on the South Side of Chicago.

  • More on the Story: Understaffing and ambulance service at ERs
  • More on the Story: Map of South Side hospitals and city trauma centers

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