There were 136 COVID-19 deaths linked to Illinois long-term care facilities last week, a five-fold increase from the prior week.
Fourteen Illinois counties have now reached a “warning” level for COVID-19.
Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday he's clamping back down on Metro East bars, restaurants and other businesses after the seven-county region posted COVID-19 positivity rates of at least 8 percent on three straight days.
There were 2,264 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Illinois on Friday, bringing the state’s total number of cases to 202,691.
The University of Chicago announced last week it will host a new medical imaging center to curate a database of thousands of medical images to better help researchers around the world tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The state’s Medicaid managed care rolls grew by roughly 145,000 in June.
Several days after requesting a state agency take action, Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, on Thursday asked that Attorney General Kwame Raoul take action against Medicaid providers that fail to meet fair contracting goals for businesses owned by racial and ethnic minorities and women.
Officials at Aunt Martha’s Health and Wellness learned Tuesday that the organization is among the latest recipients of funding from the Live Healthy Chicago collaborative, which in May announced $5 million donation from The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation to accelerate efforts to assist communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Illinois has passed 200,000 total COVID-19 cases, with officials announcing an additional 1,834 new cases on Thursday.
Health systems are making progress in delivering care to vulnerable communities, according to a new report released this week by the Medicaid Transformation Project.
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has joined 18 colleagues in opposing a proposed federal rule that seeks to treat payments made to healthcare sharing ministries as deductible medical expenses.
Gov. JB Pritzker said Wednesday that Illinois is at a “make or break” point in its battle against COVID-19, as the state's metrics have continued to trend in the wrong direction in recent weeks.
There were 1,645 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Illinois on Wednesday, bringing the state’s total number of cases to 198,593.
The city of Chicago has removed Iowa, Kansas and Utah from its list of areas where visitors will be required to self-quarantine for two weeks upon arriving in Chicago.
The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday put a hold on a Clay County hearing scheduled for Friday that would have required Gov. JB Pritzker to appear in court to defend his executive orders related to the state’s COVID-19 response.
Sinai Health System and its community-based research arm Sinai Urban Health Institute (SUHI) received a $100,000 grant from the Cigna Foundation to support efforts to address food insecurity issues on Chicago’s West Side.
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