The state’s Medicaid managed care rolls continued growing in April.
DuPage Medical Group has signed a letter of intent with Indiana-based South Bend Clinic to further develop and expand its services, the organizations announced last week.
Carle broke ground last week on a roughly $70 million medical campus project in Danville.
The University of Illinois will require on-campus students at its three universities to have a COVID-19 vaccination for the fall semester, the system announced Monday.
AMITA Health wants to spruce up a pair of its hospitals.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed late last week the $42.3 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
Gov. JB Pritzker launched a $10 million lottery Thursday aimed at getting more residents vaccinated against COVID-19.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared racism a public health issue late last week, joining a growing number of municipalities and providers in officially recognizing systemic racism's impact on health inequities.
Health News Illinois gathered several of the state’s top healthcare lobbyists this week to weigh in on the 2021 legislative spring session.
UnityPoint Health-Trinity and Encompass Health officials broke ground this week on the future home of The Quad Cities Rehabilitation Institute in Moline.
All of Illinois has fully reopened for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Illinois Department of Public Health will expand access to no-cost and low-cost COVID-19 testing to elementary schools across the state.
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With the dust barely settled on the legislative spring session, and lawmakers planning to head back to Springfield for a one-day session next week, a panel of top healthcare lobbyists previewed the health issues likely to dominate the next year.
An application has been filed with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board to reopen the former Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park.
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The Affordable Care Act helped reduce Illinois’ uninsured rate, per a report released over the weekend by President Joe Biden’s administration.
Dr. Abhishek Solanki, an Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Physician Researcher, received an $8.6 million merit grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, to study new treatments for metastatic prostate cancer, or cancer that has spread outside of the prostate.
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