A Senate committee approved a plan Wednesday intended to further protect the health records of those who receive abortion care in Illinois.
Leaders at the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation said Wednesday that they've taken positive steps to improve the state’s ability to process healthcare licenses.
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington has asked state regulators to sign off on a $26.4 million expansion to modernize its laboratory and pharmacy departments.
More than 1,000 resident physicians and fellows at the University of Chicago Medicine have voted to unionize with the Committee of Interns and Residents.
Illinois is receiving nearly $241 million to identify and replace lead service lines, which connect water mains to people’s homes, the federal Environmental Protection Agency said last week.
Illinois voters will weigh in this fall on protections for in vitro fertilization under a plan signed Friday by Gov. JB Pritzker.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Friday that Illinois has reached a more than $270 million multistate settlement in principle with Amneal Pharmaceuticals to resolve claims it helped fuel the opioid epidemic.
A top Department of Healthcare and Family Services official said they hope to learn by next month whether the federal government will approve an application for a new behavioral health model for the state’s Medicaid program.
Rush University System for Health announced last week it will partner with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to improve cancer care for patients in the Chicago region.
A House committee unanimously approved a plan Thursday to create a state electronic registry that will store treatment preferences for critically ill individuals.
Union workers at Howard Brown Health said Thursday they have authorized a new three-year contract with the Chicago-based provider.
The Chicago Department of Public Health on Wednesday launched a new initiative to provide free training on suicide prevention tactics.
Twenty-four of 111 Illinois hospitals studied by the Leapfrog Group received top marks on patient safety, according to a report released Wednesday.
Illinois voters this fall could have the chance to weigh in on protections for in vitro fertilization, under a bill approved Wednesday by the House.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness' Illinois branch said this week it will launch a new affiliate in Mount Sterling to better serve residents in the west-central region of the state.
Two of Illinois’ federal lawmakers want to update national regulations related to lead poisoning.
