"That campaign was galvanized in part by the 2010 death of 19-year-old Damian Turner. Although shot only four blocks from UChicago Medicine, because of the lack of a trauma center there, paramedics were forced to drive Turner nine miles to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died."
UChicago Trauma Center saved lives by cutting travel time for shooting victims, study finds:”Objective, concrete evidence validates what community folks on the South Side have been saying for almost three decades,” said Dr. Selwyn Rogers, founding director of the UChicago Trauma Centersouthsideweekly.com