INCREASING DIVERSITY AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
Construction Minority- and women-owned businesses are integral to our long-term goals. Together, we help provide jobs and opportunities for our neighbors while we work to improve access to high-quality health care for everyone. In fiscal year 2018, the University of Chicago Medicine spent $17.2 million with certified minority- and womenowned construction and construction-related firms, through contracts awarded and paid. Paid contracts included $2.4 million in wages paid to minority and female onsite construction workers. UChicago Medicine completed several projects during the past year, including the new Advanced Cellular Therapeutics Facility. Through this project, 17 minorityand women-owned firms were awarded $2.3 million in contracts ($1.9 million paid through June 30, 2018). One of the key contractors on the project was MJC Demolition, which has completed more than 50 projects for UChicago Medicine, including the new Family Birth Center, the Adult Emergency Department, the Mitchell Electrophysiology Lab and a retail pharmacy.
Our partnership with the University of Chicago Medicine has been an incredible experience and instrumental to the growth of my firm. We look forward to being a part of the work to provide the best care for people on the South Side and beyond. MICHAEL CHILDRESS MJC Demolition
Hiring UChicago Medicine has hired more than 250 candidates from Skills for Chicagoland’s Future, an organization dedicated to helping unemployed and underemployed community members find viable and sustainable work.
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job seekers placed in 2017 through Skills for Chicagoland’s Future
UChicago Medicine partners with Cara — a nonprofit organization focused on job placement and skills training. Through this partnership, we have made 23 placements of Cara students and provided $30,000 in support. The Cara Connects temporary staffing service provided contract and permanent employees for our recently launched adult trauma care services. In 2018, Cara named UChicago Medicine and UChicago joint recipients of its Good Neighbor Award.
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reside in UChicago Medicine’s 12-zip-code service area
UChicago Medicine, along with the University of Chicago, is the largest private employer on Chicago’s South Side, with more than 1,600 employees residing in the medical center’s 12-zip-code service area.
UChicago Medicine’s Bob Hanley (far right), Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, was proud to join UChicago’s Susana Vasquez (second from left) as co-recipient of Cara’s 2018 “Good Neighbor Award,” presented by Cara founder Tom Owens and CEO Maria Kim.
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