County commissioner calls for south suburban trauma center after complaints of poor service at Ingalls Memorial Hospital

Cook Commissioner Monica Gordon (second from left), businessman Early Walker (center) and Shavon Ingram (second from right) at Ingalls Memorial Hospital. Gordon is calling for better service and a trauma center in the south suburbs. (David Struett/Sun-Times)

A Cook County commissioner is calling for a trauma center to be built in the south suburbs after complaints of poor service at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey.

Commissioner Monica Gordon said long wait times and short staffing at the hospital are a result of the “interconnected disparities” in the mostly Black and brown south suburbs “that has to be addressed.”