Figure 2. Setting for the CHICAGO Plan.
Data from the Chicago Department of Public Health indicate that emergency department visit rates are highest (dark red) in west and south sides of Chicago (Figure 2A), areas enriched with black (African-American) children (Figure 2B). The CHICAGO Plan will recruit from EDs in six Clinical centers, : Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Sinai Health System’s Mount Sinai Hospital, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County Health & Hospitals System, Rush University Medical Center, University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, and the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System. Locations of 911 ambulance calls for children 5 to 14 years with asthma who were transported to the six Clinical centers in 2011 are illustrated as yellow dots (Figure 2A).
