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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mariah Rush

New health center brings preventive, primary care to Woodlawn, South Side

Mayor Lori Lightfoot gets a tour of the Friend Family Health Center in Woodlawn. (Brian Rich/Sun-Times)

Woodlawn and South Side residents will soon have access to an array of new physical and mental health care options with the opening of a new, $43 million health center.

Touted as a one-stop shop for preventive and primary care, the Friend Health Woodlawn Center’s opening is a key step in changing a series of troubling South Side life expectancy statistics, organization leaders said.

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