Illinois could lose $3 billion in federal money and see its uninsured rate rise by more than 46 percent if courts strike down the Affordable Care Act, according to a report released last month by the left-leaning Urban Institute.
Swedish Covenant Health in Chicago is officially part of NorthShore University HealthSystem, the providers announced this week.
The University of Illinois Health is proposing to build a $191 million, six-story outpatient surgery center on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago. It also wants to embark on an $18 million facelift of the lobby in its main building.
Five more Illinois hospitals could gain critical access hospital status under a bill spearheaded by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Channahon.
Illinois ranks in the middle-of-the-pack when it comes to healthcare affordability, according to a report released Tuesday.
The number of new HIV diagnoses in Chicago has hit a 30-year low, according to a report from the city’s Department of Public Health.
Chicago Lakeshore Hospital has begun to transfer Medicaid and Medicare patients to other facilities after losing a court battle to retain federal funds.
Midwest Express Clinic wants to make a huge splash in Chicago with the acquisition of MedSpring urgent care clinics in five vibrant city neighborhoods.
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U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Western Springs, joined all five of the state’s congressional Republicans in signing a legal brief last week that asks the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade and potentially overrule it.
An outbreak of illnesses related to vaping is getting better, federal health officials said last month.
AMITA Health has named Kevin Parrott as its new president and CEO.
Illinois joined 19 other states Friday in requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court review a lower court’s ruling on the individual mandate provision in the Affordable Care Act.
Molina Healthcare plans to acquire NextLevel Health Partners, the companies announced Monday morning.
Heart attacks will be detected faster and more accurately due to a new state-of-the-art, High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assay used by Alverno Laboratories. The assay was implemented in phases throughout Alverno’s network of...
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Metro East hospitals and community groups are banding together to try to turn the tide in one of the state’s unhealthiest communities.
Chicago parents with special needs children were more likely to report themselves in poor health as compared to other parents, according to a study released Thursday by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the Chicago Department of Public Health.
