ECG Donation
Students Donate ECG to Community Health Clinic
By Andrew Phillips, MS2
CHC Pritzker Student Board with the CHC Clinic Coordinator, Mark Estabrook
The Community Health Clinic Pritzker student board recently donated a new electrocardiogram (ECG) device to the Community Health Clinic (CHC), a non-profit adult clinic in west Chicago that provides care to the medically uninsured. The students received grants from two University of Chicago organizations—the Community Service Center and the UCMC Office of Community Affairs—to fund the purchase. ECGs are important in diagnosing a myriad of conditions from heart attacks to heart failure. The new device will allow significantly faster and more accurate diagnoses for the more than 20,000 patients the CHC sees annually. “We are grateful for the University’s support, the remarkable services the CHC provides, and the dedicated faculty who make our care for the patients possible,” said Andrew Phillips, the MS2 CHC student board member who led the initiative. “It was a great team effort.”
