Heartland Alliance Health, who was once an arm of one of the leading social service organizations in Chicago.
Michael Prishki, president of the Hartland Alliance Union, said that the health of the healthy and Wesmown clinics for non -profit organizations and will close three food stored by April 7. Nearly 8,000 Chicago who depend on the services of the organization will be affected.
“It is only devastating,” Brechki told the Sun Times.
The closure, which was reported by the Chicago Club block, comes less than a year after the Hartland alliance divided into four separate entities: Humanit Humanitarian Services in Hartland, Hartland's Hilth alliance, Hartland International Alliance and the National Center for Migrants.
Prishki said the three food stores will be closed on February 22. Heartland Alliance Health will gradually stop the remaining operations by April 7.
The Hartland Center will be closed in the Infloud Health Alliance, 5501 c.
Prishki said that the federation obtained the news during last Wednesday's meeting with the Hartland Health Command. The organization employs 113 people, 50 of them from the Union. Brechki said that the employees were not informed of their last day.
He said: “They are sad and angry.” “They are not just losing their jobs, but they are also destroyed in favor of 8,000 people served by the Hartland Health Alliance every year. This will have a great impact on them.”
Hartland Health Alliance representatives immediately did not respond to the comment. The organization's website offered a message announcing the closure. The clinics are no longer, at 4009 N. Broadway and 5501 S. Halsted St. Take patients, according to the site.
“It is very sad that Hartland Alias ​​Health (Haha) closes its doors,” says the message. “You will continue to work closely with financiers, community service providers and government partners with the end of its operations, focusing on reducing the impact on its weak population and employees.”
This is the latest setback in a series of financial conflicts of the organization. Last April's decision to divide the Hartland Alliance was a step to provide costs aimed at “protecting long -term feasibility” for the organization's services, according to Sun Times at the time.
In 2023, Heartland Alliance cut 65 jobs and closing the affordable housing department that works in Chicago and Yistson.
“There are not a lot of surprises among the employees,” said Brechki. “The financial issues were leaking for the past and a half.”
The three Heartland Alliance Health stocks are part of the Fital Bridges Food. Laurie Canon co -founded OpenHand Chicago in 1988 to serve the LGBTQ community in the city affected by HIV/AIDS. The organization's name was changed to vital bridges in 2011 when it went under the umbrella of the Hartland Alliance.
The Pantry has served people with HIV for more than 35 years and supports 400 customers.
“We have been thrown on the wind,” said Canon, who spent on Tuesday in Val Frings clients for a long time.
“We have a very strong society history that has not been completed, but it was temporarily suspended by the lack of an error on our part,” she added. “This is a disaster, but we will be here to the bitter end.”
Heartland Alliance assets followed to 1888 when the progressive reformer Jane Adams was founded. AdDams, one of the first Chicago leaders in the movement to end poverty, and established Hull House and was a participant in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
Health clinics for non -profit organizations and food creatures as social service institutions in Chicago and all over the country are concerned about their future as the Trump administration tries to reduce its federal funding.
“There is a lot of concern about how the federal government continues to threaten financing for organizations that serve low -income societies,” said Brechki. “People may be able to get another job that serves low -income people, but what happens on the road with the federal government?”
