Hanging on by a thread, safety-net hospitals brace for new blows

Last month, two of the six people who were wounded in a mass shooting in Humboldt Park were treated at Mount Sinai Hospital. Mount Sinai was also one of eight Chicago Hospitals flagged in a recent report by Public Citizen as being at high risk of closing under upcoming Medicaid cuts. Writing in as a medical student and orthopedic trauma surgeon at the University of Chicago, we know from our own history that the city doesn't have to imagine the impacts of one of its major trauma centers closing.…