Quincy Medical Group has asked the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board to hold a public hearing on an application by Blessing Health System to build a new ambulatory surgical treatment center.
Quorum Health’s decision to close Blue Island’s MetroSouth Medical Center drew fierce opposition from doctors, nurses, community members and elected officials Wednesday morning. However, the company maintained that financial pressures […]
The co-leaders of Advocate Aurora Health approached its board earlier this year to ask it to consider a move to a single CEO, said Jim Skogsbergh, who became the sole leader of the healthcare organization Wednesday.
Minneapolis-based startup insurer Bright Health is entering the Chicago market, where it plans to offer Medicare Advantage plans starting in 2020.
Ingalls Memorial Hospital plans to discontinue its inpatient pediatric services, according to an application filed this week with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board.
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association is no longer opposed to a Chicago ordinance requiring employers to schedule workers two weeks in advance and pay them for last-minute changes.
Three Republicans who represent the area around Willowbrook filed a court brief Tuesday to prevent the state from allowing Sterigenics to reopen its facility in their district.
Gov. JB Pritzker announced late Monday afternoon he had signed a handful of healthcare-related bills.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of 35 attorneys general last week in urging the Food and Drug Administration to conduct more research on the risk and potential health benefits of cannabis products, including cannabidiol.
Members of a Medicaid subcommittee on opioid use withdrawals settled on a series of recommendations for improving treatment at a recent meeting.
Several Republican lawmakers said last week they will continue to do whatever possible to ensure that Sterigenics does not reopen its Willowbrook facility.
Changes to how Medicaid eligibility is handled for patients in long-term care facilities were among the bills signed last Friday by Gov. JB Pritzker.
Gov. JB Pritzker has added three members to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board, according to a Friday statement.
A partnership between OSF Healthcare and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering is receiving another $50 million to boost advancements in clinical simulations, healthcare systems and medical education.
Illinois will forgo funding from a federal family planning grant program as long as recently implemented rules that bar recipients from abortion referrals remain in place, Gov. JB Pritzker said Thursday.
With a new 5,400 square-foot incubator and the near-completion of a 100,000 square-foot innovation and research park this fall, Rosalind Franklin University hopes to make itself a destination for bioscience companies, not only in Lake County but across the region.
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