A federal judge struck down a Trump administration rule protecting providers who refuse to provide care based on religious beliefs or moral convictions, according to a Wednesday statement from Attorney General Kwame Raoul.
Advocate Aurora Health, one of the 10 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country, and MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, named digital health startup LifePod the winner of the 2019 Health Tech Venture Challenge.
The Illinois Department of Public Health has awarded 14 state organizations a total of $350,000 to help increase the number of women who obtain wellness checks.
A changing global climate will force the healthcare industry to find ways to lower its carbon footprint, Kenneth Strømdahl, senior vice president of global device research and development at Danish-based Novo Nordisk, said during an event Tuesday morning in Chicago at healthcare incubator MATTER.
Fourteen hospitals and health systems, including four with an Illinois presence, announced a more than $700 million commitment on Tuesday to address disparities.
Roughly 400 union workers at Sinai Health System in Chicago plan to strike next week after negotiations broke down.
On October 30, 2019, the Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS) Patient Safety Organization (PSO) awarded Suzanne Khoury, a senior medical technologist at Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, with the MAPS PSO Patient Safety Champion award for preventing patient harm. MAPS PSO is an Illinois Health and Hospital Association (IHA) company.
OSF HealthCare’s investment arm is one of five organizations spending a total of $7.3 million on a new startup that aims to identify patients in need of social services and other resources.
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago will launch an outpatient behavioral health program on Wednesday.
Illinois continues to struggle with premature births, according to a report released Monday by March of Dimes.
Illinois will provide nearly $3 million for trauma recovery centers throughout the state.
The rise in the number of patients treated by Cook County Health without health insurance could lead the system to consider cuts to services.
Illinois will delay the implementation of the integrated health homes program until next April, state officials announced Friday.
Illinois Medical District CEO Suzet McKinney thinks there’s no reason Chicago can’t become the country’s next hub for life sciences.
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Illinois will recover $242 million from settlements with more than a dozen drug companies over allegations they inflated the wholesale prices used to set rates for Medicaid reimbursements.
