House lawmakers are looking at ways to address potentially high levels of lead in the state and the city of Chicago’s drinking water.
Rush University System for Health President Michael Dandorph will step down next month to “pursue other interests," the system announced this week.
AMITA Health has canceled plans to close its inpatient psychiatric unit at Saint Joseph Hospital in Elgin, the health system announced this week.
About 2,200 union nurses will return to work today at the University of Chicago Medical Center, five days after they went on a one-day strike.
A panel of experts weighed in on hospital transformation at a Health News Illinois panel Tuesday at MATTER Health in Chicago.
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Fourteen Illinois organizations have received over $4 million from the federal government to help expand access to oral care.
Thousands of University of Chicago Medical Center nurses who went on strike Friday will not be allowed back at work until Wednesday.
Officials from IlliniCare told stakeholders last week that they will not interrupt the care of 16,000 youths currently overseen by the Department of Children and Family Services.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has approved a construction permit for Sterigenics to upgrade its Willowbrook facility to comply with the state’s new ethylene emission oxide law.
MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island will no longer accept new patients and officials said they will also temporarily suspend its general emergency department and its obstetrics emergency department.
Fresenius Medical Care plans to move its 18-station dialysis facility from the now closed-Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park.
University of Chicago Medical Center officials said they have started preparations for a nurses strike this Friday after talks broke down between the two sides Wednesday evening.
A group of Democratic lawmakers has proposed a plan to limit out-of-pocket costs for insulin.
Illinois falls in the middle of the pack when it comes to state rates of adult obesity, according to a recent report.
MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island will stay open for another month after the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board voted Tuesday to defer action on an application to close the 314-bed facility.
Comer Education Campus debuted its new soccer mini-pitch on September 13th. The mini-pitch is the first open play soccer field at a Chicago charter school. The pitch was created by Medical Home Network and the U.S. Soccer Foundation as part of the Foundation’s It’s Everyone’s Game movement, which aims to build 1,000 safe places to play and reach one million participants in its Soccer for Success program by 2026.
