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U OF C SEEKING CURE FOR SOUTH SIDE POOR; Hospital, partners fill void left by ailing rivals.(News)

Byline: MIKE COLIAS

Getting patients to show up at her South Side clinic for a three-hour wait is difficult enough for Michele Walker.

Telling them to wait three months for a referral appointment with a specialist is deflating.

"That's the biggest complaint we hear from patients: `Why do we have to wait so long?' '' says Dr. Walker, who runs the Access Community Health Center clinic in a strip mall at 54th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway.

She hopes wait times for the 75 patients she sees a day are about to shrink. An almost-completed $350,000 expansion funded by nearby University of Chicago Medical Center will double her clinic's size to 16 exam rooms. ...

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