New West Side primary care clinic promises to expand access to uninsured residents

The Thresholds Health clinic at Corcoran Place and Menard Avenue in Austin. The clinic opened to the general public in mid-March and is open to uninsured patients on a sliding scale basis. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

When Jermaine Harris got sick growing up, there was no walk to see a familiar family doctor in Austin. Instead, the family had to take the CTA well beyond the neighborhood, to Rush Medical Center.

“We have to seek out these things outside our community,” Harris said. “Growing up on the West Side, it was always on us to leave.”