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NALHE Chicagoland Chapter
“Promoting Latino Healthcare Leadership”
Chicagoland consists of the Chicago metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois, including Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. It covers all of Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry and Will Counties in Illinois. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a 2020 census population of 9,618,502 and the combined statistical area which spans up to 19 counties had a population of nearly 10 million people. The Chicago area is the third-largest metropolitan area and combined statistical area in the United States. It is also the fourth-largest metropolitan area in North America, the largest within the Great Lakes megalopolis, and its urban area is one of the forty largest in the world.
The metropolitan area has seen an increase of Latin American residents according to the 2020 Census. The metropolitan area represents about 3 percent of the United States population.
The Chicago area is home to a number of the nation’s leading research universities including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University and Illinois Institute of Technology. The University of Chicago and Northwestern University are consistently ranked as two of the best universities in the world.
In a report released in 2017, it concluded that Chicago’s $69 billion healthcare industry has a diversity of assets that position the city to accelerate innovation and disruptive solutions at a pace uncommon in U.S. cities.”Bolstered by a core of world-class care institutions, medical technology enterprises, and life sciences researchers, the report identifies five critical factors that make the city a world healthcare industry leader:healthcare industry expertise, robust venture capital community, graduate medical education and vocational training system, growth of new technologies and unique collaborations.
Get to Know the Chicagoland Chapter Leadership Board
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Christina Martinez
President & Board Chair
Nancy Alonso
Immediate Past President
Phillip Shaffer
Treasurer
Open Board Position
Secretary
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin Munoz
Chair of Marketing and Communications
Strategic Plan
The NALHE Chicagoland Chapter Strategic Plan for 2023-2025 is currently in development!
Vision
To provide a framework to bring together Latino/Latina and multicultural healthcare leaders and professionals, early careerists, students, local industry experts, community stakeholders, partners, sponsors, and affiliates as a group to meet, discuss, and influence factors which affect the representation of Latino/Latina and multicultural individuals in healthcare leadership roles locally and regionally; to foster greater participation in the advancement of diversity and inclusion and health equity initiatives at a local level.
Purpose
Support Latino/Latina and multicultural individuals who are in healthcare to grow and advance professionally and demonstrate to each other and to the local/regional industry the increasing contributions made by Latino/Latina and multicultural individuals within the healthcare management profession.
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Encourage and provide tools for members to advance professionally and academically in the healthcare management profession.
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Advocate for continued research, education and dissemination of information about Latino/Latina and multicultural community health issues at the local level.
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Support members’ full participation in the healthcare management profession and its organizations and use the Chapter as a local platform to connect and to learn.
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Support the advancement of community members that desire to launch a career in healthcare.