As COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to plummet in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker said he’s fighting a court ruling on his mask and COVID-19 vaccine requirements to provide clarity for the state’s next emergency.
Read MoreIn order to meet the overwhelming demand for child and adolescent crisis care, MiraCare will be opening its new Tinley Park Center in the next few months. MiraCare will be providing Inpatient and Partial Hospital care in the Tinley Park Acute Care Center along with specialized behavioral health evaluation, assessment, and outpatient treatment.
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Nearly two-thirds of Black and Brown youths said they face mental health challenges, according to a new report published Monday by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Communities United.
Stakeholders are looking to state lawmakers this spring to help strengthen the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
State officials said last week they plan to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to take up the legal challenge to Gov. JB Pritzker’s mask mandate for schools.
Northwestern Medicine announced this week a $45 million gift to expand cardiovascular services at the health system and establish the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Heart Hospital at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Department of Healthcare and Family Services officials told stakeholders Thursday that work continues ahead of the end of the federal public health emergency.
The Illinois Department of Public Health’s proposed budget will set the agency up for the next stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike told lawmakers Thursday.
An Illinois appellate court has dismissed Governor JB Pritzker’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling against his mask mandate in schools.
A House committee signed off Wednesday on a plan backed by the Illinois State Dental Society to address workforce issues and expand who can perform certain services.
The House’s Human Services Committee took up various healthcare-related proposals during a nearly three-and-a-half-hour meeting Wednesday morning.
An appellate court is expected to take up a challenge to the mask mandate for schools “very shortly,” Gov. JB Pritzker told reporters Wednesday.
As of Monday, 1,815 Illinoisans were in the hospital with COVID-19, up four from Sunday and down 819 from the prior week.
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The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board held two public hearings Tuesday morning, including one for the University of Chicago Medicine’s $633 million freestanding cancer center on Chicago’s south side.
Chicago’s top doctor said Tuesday she is hopeful the city will lift its COVID-19 mitigations in the coming weeks, though she reiterated they may not follow the rest of the state in doing so at the end of the month.
A legislative body on Tuesday rejected an emergency rule from Gov. JB Pritzker's administration to reissue his mask mandate to public schools as officials await further legal action.
