Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) selected Carle as a Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement, part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program.
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Lumere, a Chicago-based healthcare data company, has been acquired by Colorado-based Global Health Exchange, the companies announced this week.
Illinois is the only state in the country that spent less of its own money on Medicaid in 2017 compared to 2000, according to a report from Pew Charitable Trusts.
UnityPoint Health-Trinity and Encompass Health have proposed a nearly $34 million rehabilitation institute on the former's Moline campus, according to an application filed with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board.
An anti-abortion law firm based in Chicago has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a Louisiana law that requires doctors who perform the procedure to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
The first bioscience incubator in Lake County, Helix 51, which opened in May 2019, and RFU’s new Innovation and Research Park, expected to open early this year, represent an investment in affordable, state-of-the-art wet...
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Advocate Aurora Health is planning a $63.5 million expansion and modernization of the intensive care unit at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, according to an application filed with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board.
Private insurance plan members would receive up to three primary and mental health or substance use disorder treatment visits per year under a plan unveiled Monday by U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Naperville.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., joined Democratic colleagues on Monday in calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to take more sweeping action against flavored e-cigarette products.
Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery were recently the first in Illinois to implant a new type of sacral neuromodulator, a small device surgically placed in the pelvic area that restores nerve signals communicating between the brain, bladder and bowel.
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Health officials are investigating three cases of Legionnaires’ disease at two separate Chicago nursing homes.
A Chicago child has died from the flu, the state’s first pediatric influenza-related death of the season, health officials announced last week.
Loyola University Health System is planning a $17.5 million renovation of its existing clinical lab at the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, according to an application with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board.
A Chicago city council committee signed off Friday on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s pick to serve as the next public health commissioner, setting up a possible confirmation vote at Wednesday’s council meeting.
For nearly a decade, Karla Ivankovich and her husband, Dan, have provided physical and mental healthcare to some of Chicago's most underserved communities.
Advocate Aurora Health will be the official healthcare provider for the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.
