Every baby born in Illinois is now being tested for spinal muscular atrophy during their newborn screening.
The weekly number of COVID-19 deaths at Illinois’ long-term care facilities has dropped below 100 for the first time since the state began releasing such data two months ago.
Centene’s Meridian Health Plans of Illinois will acquire NextLevel Health’s 54,000 Medicaid managed care members, the two companies announced last week.
Any person traveling to Chicago from a COVID-19 hot spot will be directed to self-quarantine for two weeks, according to an order issued last week.
Three dozen Chicago healthcare organizations announced last week they will collaborate on ways to address health disparities in the city’s minority communities and ensure greater health equity.
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Leaders from several central Illinois healthcare providers on Thursday called for more blood donations to ensure an adequate supply for patients.
Developmental disability providers are seeking clarity on how millions set aside in the budget to assist with minimum wage increases will be implemented.
Illinois will enter phase four of its reopening plan Friday, allowing bars and restaurants to resume some indoor services, as well as the partial reopening of health and fitness centers, movie theaters, museums, zoos and outdoor spectator sports. Gatherings of up to 50 people will also be allowed.
The University of Illinois is continuing its partnership with Carle Health to design personal protective equipment and create sterilization processes for central Illinois hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizations said this week.
Northwestern Medicine is looking to build a nearly 50,000-square-foot medical office building in Bloomingdale.
Gov. JB Pritzker said Wednesday that Illinois will take over two federal COVID-19 testing sites that the Trump administration plans to no longer support.
Advocate Aurora Health today announced it has distributed 1 million procedural masks to 60 community organizations across Illinois and Wisconsin and another 140,000 cloth masks to individuals to reinforce the safety of communities that have been disproportionately impacted as the fight against COVID-19 wages on.
Read MoreMacNeal Hospital is the first hospital in Illinois to participate in a national, randomized clinical trial using daily vital signs and lung pressure measurement to manage patients with congestive heart failure.
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The city of Chicago launched a pilot program to provide mobile COVID-19 testing sites in neighborhoods disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
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More than 720 nurses represented by the Illinois Nurses Association who work at AMITA St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet could strike as early as July 4 after filing a 10-day notice on Tuesday.
As the rate of COVID-19 cases in Chicago drops, city healthcare executives are taking stock of the lessons they learned during the first months of the crisis, while bracing for another resurgence.
