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The 26-hospital health system, along with more than 500 outpatient care locations, is based in Illinois and Wisconsin.

Under board and executive leadership, Advocate Aurora Health has:

• Established two leadership programs—the Leadership Diversity Ambassador Program and Emerging Leader Program—to help build and retain diverse leadership and support an inclusive organizational culture.
• Organized to achieve more equity within six key areas: workforce development, housing, community violence and safety, access to primary care, access to behavioral health services and food insecurity. 
• Launched programs that improve outcomes for African-Americans with hypertension, diabetes and other chronic diseases by addressing the social and economic barriers that prevent healthy habits, Healthy Living Food Farmacy, and the Primary Care Connection program, which deploys community health workers to serve patients in the emergency department, making and a commitment to address health inequities through targeted COVID-19 testing, flu vaccinations, screenings and other health services to communities experiencing the greatest gaps in access to care and the disproportionate burden of disease.