The Cook County Health Board of Directors voted Friday not to renew CEO Dr. Jay Shannon’s contract beyond the end of the year.
A national union representing 2,200 nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center has called off a strike planned for Tuesday after the two sides reached a tentative agreement on a new contract over the weekend.
The Cook County Health Board of Directors will not renew CEO Dr. Jay Shannon's contract, which expires at the end of the year.
Dr. Don Berwick, former administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has a scorecard for the public to use when considering healthcare reform plans.
Chicago State University will receive $2.5 million to begin work on a new nursing simulation laboratory, Gov. JB Pritzker announced earlier this week.
As patient care increasingly shifts to outpatient settings, hospitals across the country are shrinking and some are rethinking their delivery models.
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A fifth Illinois resident has died after being hospitalized from a vaping-related illness, the second death in as many weeks.
Middle-class Illinois residents now spend 10 percent of their total income on employer-sponsored health insurance, according to a report released Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund.
The University of Chicago Medical Center has temporarily closed its Level 1 trauma center for adult and pediatric patients ahead of next week’s planned strike by more than 2,200 nurses.
The city of Chicago has launched a program intended to support the health and well-being of mothers, newborns and their families.
Healthcare.gov sign-ups in Illinois are running behind where they were last year.
MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, today announced a partnership with Roche Diabetes Care, a global leader in integrated Personalized Diabetes Management (iPDM), to host the 2019-2020 Roche Diabetes Care Innovation Contest.
The number of people enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans grew by more than 8,000 members in September.
Cook County Health has been awarded $750,000 in federal funds to study child abuse and develop a plan to reduce child fatalities and other injuries.
IlliniCare officials are starting to make outreach calls ahead of next year’s transfer of thousands of children currently overseen by the Department of Children and Family Services into Medicaid managed care.
Healthcare organizations must embrace technology or they will be left behind, according to Eric Langshur, co-founder and managing partner of Abundant Venture Partners.
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