BJC HealthCare, which has hospitals in southern Illinois, has entered an agreement with Kansas City-based Saint Luke’s Health System to create a $10 billion, 28-hospital health system that would span Missouri, Kansas and Illinois.
Resident physicians and fellows training at Northwestern Medicine hospitals and clinics said Friday that they will seek to unionize.
The state of Illinois and the Greater Chicago Food Depository will invest an additional $4 million to provide meals to asylum seekers through the end of the calendar year, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Friday.
Department of Human Services Secretary Dulce Quintero said their expansive background has prepared them for their new role.
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Fingerprints or other scans used by healthcare workers to access medication and other medical materials are exempt from Illinois’ biometric information privacy law, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Eight Illinois hospitals will receive federal funds to add residency slots, the state’s two senators announced this week.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says federal officials must do more to promote recent changes in Medicare to improve coverage and billing practices for oral healthcare services.
Thirty Chicago-area state and local lawmakers on Wednesday urged Howard Brown Health to return to the negotiating table and find an agreement with its union workers.
Illinois has taken steps in recent years to boost its potential as a major biotechnology hub, Gov. JB Pritzker said this week.
Efforts are ongoing to address gun violence as a public health crisis, but more work must be done, Chicago-based officials told federal lawmakers Tuesday.
The maternal and infant health crisis, emerging diseases post–COVID-19 and treating racism as a public health crisis are among the priorities that state health leaders identified Tuesday as the biggest public health issues in Illinois.
Illinois continues to have conversations with its federal partners regarding proposed changes to its 1115 waiver for behavioral health services.
Construction will start this week on two new shelter sites in Chicago that will house up to 2,200 asylum seekers, Gov. JB Pritzker and the Department of Human Services said Monday.
Advocate Health Care and Aurora Health Care, both part of Advocate Health, have together been awarded $500,000 in funding to support their joint participation in the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) Health Systems Implementation Initiative (HSII).
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More than 70,000 Illinoisans have signed up for 2024 health insurance coverage through Healthcare.gov, according to federal data released last week.
The Department of Public Health and the State Board of Health will hold virtual meetings this week for input on plans to address the biggest public health issues in Illinois.
