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Alan H. Channing, President and CEO of Sinai Health System, receives Jonas Salk Health Leadership Award for Public Health and Community Health
Chicago - At its annual awards ceremony on September 29, 2009, the Illinois Chapter of the March of Dimes named Alan Channing the Public Health and Community Health Leadership award recipient.
Channing is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Sinai Health System, an integrated health care delivery system located in the Lawndale area on the west side of Chicago, Illinois. His career as a healthcare executive spans forty years, most of it in “safety net hospitals” that serve vulnerable communities. Throughout his career he has stood for eradication of health disparities and putting “community” back into community hospital.
As a board member of the National Association of Public Hospitals he presented testimony before the U.S. Congress; similarly, representing the Ohio Hospital Association he testified before the Ohio Senate.
Channing currently serves on the executive committee of the Illinois Hospital Association and on the board of the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council plus he is the chair of the board of Family Health Network, a Medicaid-managed care company.
In his five-year tenure at Sinai, he has overseen the growth of Sinai Community Institute and Sinai Urban Health Institute, organizations that differentiate Sinai: Sinai community Institute through their community outreach for life factors that affect health and urban epidemiology on health disparities and what to do about them.
Channing is passionate about quality healthcare for all patients. By the end of FY 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital was in the top 10 percent of hospitals nationally on 75 percent of the federal government’s Core Measures.
Channing established Sinai’s vision of being the national model for urban healthcare and has lead the organization to full realization of that vision – a vision that was recognized by Vice President Joe Biden and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a healthcare round table held at Sinai in August 2009.
About Sinai Health System
For 90 years the hospitals and caregivers of Sinai Health System have provided medical care and social services to communities in west and south Chicago. Situated in a five square block area on the west side of the city, the Sinai Hospitals, include Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Children’s Hospital, and Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital and offer general acute, specialty, and rehabilitation care as well as home health. Sinai Community Institute provides social service outreach for the lifestyle issues that contribute to health (e.g. unemployment, teenage parenthood, unsupervised children after school) while the Sinai Urban Health Institute researches the prevalence of chronic disease in Chicago neighborhoods. Collectively these organizations and the caregivers who staff them support the Sinai vision of being the national model for urban health care.
For additional information contact Dianne Hunter, Director of Public Relations and Communications, Sinai Health System: 773.257.5228.
