Blue Island's Healthcare Blues
A Mayor’s Fight to Save Healthcare for his City  

          In our cover story, we are talking to the Mayor of Blue Island, Mr. Domingo Fabian Vargas, JD to discuss how a hospital closure is affecting his community and beyond. Mayor Vargas explains that the hospital closure in his community “would be a domino effect because a lot of the businesses in Blue Island depend on it - from restaurants to the dry cleaners, car washes, gas stations, etc. So, it would be one thing after another."
          The Safecare Group brings you this story in an exclusive Interview with Mayor Domingo Fabian Vargas, JD, Blue Island, Illinois By Yisrael M. Safeek, MD, MBA, CPE, FACPE. It is the story of one community’s fight to keep its ability to access local health care and a Mayor’s determination to fight the closure of his community’s main hospital.  
Sarju Bharucha, JD
Editor-in-Chief ​

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