What are the UCM policies for remote access to email?
Remote access to your email, the intranet, and other University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) applications remains subject to the applicable UCM policies, including, without limitation, Email and Voicemail Use and Privacy (Admin 06-11) and Security over Access Permission to UCM Data, Computing and Communications Resources (Admin 06-16).
What does Chi stand for?
Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) is part of CommonSpirit Health, a single health care organization formed with Dignity Health and Dignity Community Care.
How do I connect to the UCM VPN?
Access to the UCM VPN should only be conducted with a UCM managed device adhering to the organization’s cyber security policies. If you are not using a UCM managed device, please login to Intranet & UCM Applications. Once you are finished working, please disconnect from the VPN immediately to allow other users to connect.
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Find CHI hospitals and clinics across the country, either by name, type, or by location.
Catholic Health Initiatives is part of CommonSpirit Health
Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) is part of CommonSpirit Health, a single health care organization formed with Dignity Health and Dignity Community Care. CommonSpirit Health will perform most health care operational functions on behalf of or in collaboration with CHI, Dignity Health, and Dignity Community Care.
What you need to know about Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
At Catholic Health, our healing mission has always been unique and challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic reinforce our commitment to caring for all. The safety of our visitors, patients, local communities, employees, and physicians remains our highest priority. We will continue to provide updates on this page with the latest information available.
What is VPN in university?
A Virtual Private Network (“VPN”) allows you to create a secure connection to another network over the Internet – or in other words, it allows your computer at home to connect to websites, servers, and drives or file shares protected within the University’s network. All VPN services also require 2FA. The Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility VPN software is the same for University, BSD, and UCM, but each is accessed by different means.
Can UCM-IT support home networks?
There are many Internet, networking, router, and wireless options available to consumers these days, therefore it is not possible for UCM-IT to support home networks.
Building a nation of healthy communities
Formed in 2019 through the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health, CommonSpirit® is one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S., with more than 1,000 care sites in 21 states coast to coast, serving 20 million patients in big cities and small towns across America.
We believe in the power of humankindness
At CommonSpirit, humankindness means inspiring change in health care that leads to more empathy, listening, and respect - because we believe that humanity holds the power to heal.
The common good needs bold ideas
Unequal access to care. A global pandemic. Racial injustice. Homelessness. Our communities need bold solutions to our most pressing challenges, which require the kind of scale and resources a national health system like CommonSpirit can provide.
CommonSpirit Announces Industry-Leading Climate Goals
CommonSpirit Health is proud to participate in the UN Climate Change Conference where we have announced an industry-leading commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 with an interim target to cut operational emissions in half by 2030.
News and perspectives
In this Becker's article, Chief Nursing Offer Kathy Sanford talks about the nationwide nursing shortage, and a new CommonSpirit program designed to help address it.