Principles
- Health care is a basic human right.
- Quality, affordable health care coverage should be accessible for all in Illinois.
- Increased access to care, timely preventative services and better management of chronic illnesses promote improved health outcomes and reduce costs of late health interventions.
- Reducing the burden on local governments that are currently paying uninsured health care costs will save Illinois taxpayers.
- Less uninsured patients seen in hospitals and other medical providers will reduce uncompensated care costs.
- Providing healthcare for all in Illinois will balance costs and prevent health-related financial crises for individuals and families.
Staff
Enddy Almonord is the Director of Healthy Illinois, a campaign to make quality, affordable healthcare coverage accessible to all people in Illinois, regardless of immigration status. She leads a coalition of stakeholders to organize and build power to change policy. Enddy joins Healthy Illinois after serving as the Director of Coalition Partnerships at the American Business Immigration Coalition, where she worked nationally with advocacy organizations, business leaders, and elected officials to push for bipartisan immigration reform. Prior to that, she managed key immigrant justice initiatives at The Resurrection Project, where she advocated for increased access to legal services for undocumented immigrants and led rapid-response efforts to support new arrivals in Chicago.
Healthy Illinois Campaign Strategy Committee
Healthy Illinois Campaign Endorsers
Coalition Members
- Access Community Health
- Advocate Aurora Health
- AgeOptions
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago
- Ascension Healthcare
- Aunt Martha’s
- Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
- Caring Across Generations
- Centro de Trabajadores Unidos
- Chicago Workers Collaborative
- Cook County Health
- DuPage Federation
- Enlace Chicago
- Erie House
- Esperanza Chicago
- EverThrive Illinois
- Health & Medicine Policy Research Group
- Howard Brown Health
- Illinois American Academy of Pediatrics
- Illinois Health and Hospital Association
- Illinois Unidos
- Indo-American Center
- IPHCA – Illinois Primary Healthcare Association
- Jewish United Fund – Chicago
- Legal Council for Health Justice
- Mano a Mano Family Resource Center
- Metropolitan Family Services
- Mujeres Latinas en Accion
- RUSH University Medical Center
- Saint Anthony’s Hospital
- Sinai Chicago
- Spanish Community Center
- United African Organization
- VNA Healthcare
- Young Invincibles
Faith & Civic Leaders
- Rev. MSGR Michael Boland, C.E.O. Catholic Charities of the Arch Diocese of Chicago
- Bishop Wayne N. Miller, Metropolitan Chicago Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
- Bishop John R. Manz, Archdiocese of Chicago, Vicariate IV
- Bishop Alberto Rojas, Archdiocese of Chicago, Vicariate III
- Sam Toia, President and CEO, Illinois Restaurant Association
- Carmen Velazquez, Founder, Alivio Medical Center
- Sr. Carol Cook, Sisters of Charity, Blessed Virgin Mary
- Sr. Gwen Farry, Sisters of Charity, Blessed Virgin Mary
- Fr. Corey Brost, Clerics of St. Viator
- Br. Michael Gosch, JPIC Coordinator, Clerics of St. Viator
- Br. Leo V. Ryan, Clerics of St. Viator
- Sr. Rose Therese, JPIC Coordinator, Holy Spirit Missionary Sister-USA
- Rev. Dr. Larry GreenField, Executive Minister, American Baptist Church of Metro Chicago
- Rabbi Seth Limmer, Chicago Sinai Congregation
- Rev. Thomas G. Mescall, St. Adrian Catholic Church
- Rev. Lyle Gundrum, St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic Church
- Rev. William Lego, St. Turibius Catholic Church
- Rev. Michael Mann, Associate Director of Mission & Advocacy, Northern Illinois
- Alderman Carlos Rosa, Chicago
- Jaime di Paulo, Executive Director, Little Village Chamber of Commerce
- Alderwoman Sue Sadlowski Garza, Chicago
Faith Institutions
- St. Agnes of Bohemia Catholic Church
- Good Shepard Parish Catholic Church
- St. Adrian Catholic Church
- Unity Church in Chicago
- St. Nicolai United Church-Christ
- St. Peters Church Catholic Church
- Queen of the Universe Catholic Church
- Urban Village Church-Hyde Park & Woodlawn
- St. Leonards Catholic Church, Berwyn
- St. Nicholas of Tolentine Catholic Church
- St. Turibius Catholic Church
- The Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters-USA
- The 8th Day Center for Justice
- St. Ann’s Catholic Church
- St. Procopius Catholic Church
- St. Clare of Montifalco Catholic Church
- Universalist Unitarian Church of Joliet
- United Church of Christ in Aurora
- Mt Zion Tabernacle in Joliet
- First Presbyterian in Elgin
- Kneseth Israel Congregation in Elgin
- Universalist Unitarian Church of DeKalb
- Universalist Unitarian Church of Naperville
- Catholic Diocese of Joliet
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel – Joliet