Message from the President and CEO
Greetings! Can you believe the end of the year is here! 2024 has definitely been one for the books, but because of supporters, members, and patients like you, South Shore Hospital is still here and accessible to the community ‘Thank You! We have dedicated our efforts and resources to providing free-to-affordable, quality health care that meets the community’s needs. Only a few decades ago, we were one of the firsthospitals to open an HIV/AIDS clinic; and it is still open 40 years later. As your community hospital, South Shore Hospital has offered clinics that focused on diabetes, heart health, sleep apnea, and other diseases and other afflictions known to impact people living on Chicago’s south side or southeast suburbs. We currently offer clinics that focus on substance abuse, mental health, and orthopedics. More recently, we led the charge to educate the community about COVID-19 and its new strains and made it easy to get vaccinated for COVID— whether you came to us, or we visited you at church or community organization venue.
I am happy to say that we are still here, at the front lines, working on your behalf… because that is what an effective, compassionate community hospital and healthcare provider does. Yet, if you watch the news, community health care is disappearing from some communities due to the constantly rising costs of health care and operational fees. As South Shore Hospital’s CEO, I am collaborating with staff, supporters, anddonors like you to ensure that Chicago’s south side neighborhoods and suburbs always have community health at their doorsteps. We are creating more healthcare partnerships so that staying or getting well can be achieved without a thirty- to-sixty-minute drive away from where you live.
We are working collectively to ensure quality health not only for individual patients and their families but for the entire community. With your assistance, we will continue this health care mission. With that being said, the “Giving Season” is now upon us, and it is my hope that you will join our efforts to keep community health local by donating whatever amount you can afford. I believe, with your support, we can achieve the great mission of ensuring community health is available for each of us for another one hundred years. Once again thank you for your continued support!
Humbly Yours and Forever Grateful,
Leslie Rogers
President and CEO,
South Shore Hospital
