Illinois is set to receive more than $3 million from a multistate settlement with the makers of Suboxone, a prescription drug used to treat opioid addiction.
IlliniCare Health and state officials are increasing their focus on high-risk youths as they use the next four months to prepare for the transfer of thousands of children currently overseen by the Department of Children and Family Services.
AMITA Health is the latest Illinois health system to announce they are getting into the Medicare Advantage space.
St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago plans to close its six-bed pediatrics unit, according to an application filed last week with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board.
A trio of Illinois healthcare associations are splitting nearly $50 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to boost rural healthcare.
OSF HealthCare is teaming up with Carle Foundation’s Health Alliance to launch a Medicare Advantage plan in 17 central and northern Illinois counties.
Sterigenics announced Monday it will close its sterilization facility in Willowbrook.
Decatur Memorial Hospital has cleared all regulatory approvals and today became the fifth hospital to join Memorial Health System. Decatur Memorial Hospital becomes the eighth full affiliate of Memorial Health System and its second largest hospital. “Our affiliation with Memorial Health System will better position us to meet our community’s health care needs,” Larry Altenbaumer, […]
Alverno Laboratories, one of the largest integrated laboratory networks in the United States, has added two key Chicago hospital laboratories, along with several suburban AMITA Health hospital laboratories. Hammond, Indiana-based Alverno Laboratories has added Mount Sinai Hospital, 1500 S. Fairfield Ave., and Holy Cross Hospital, 2701 W. 68th St., plus eight suburban AMITA hospitals to […]
Sterigenics announced Monday it will close its sterilization facility in Willowbrook, citing an “unstable legislative and regulatory landscape.”
Cook County Health will move ahead with a planned $15.3 million clinical services facility in Blue Island.
Several business groups have requested lawmakers reconsider placing additional restrictions on ethylene oxide emissions when they return to Springfield next month for the veto session.
Federal and state health officials said Friday that their investigation into vaping-related lung injuries suggests products containing THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, are playing a role in the outbreak.
A plan to transfer thousands of youths currently overseen by the Department of Children and Family Services to IlliniCare Health has been delayed until next February.
Panelists discussed the state of hospital transformation at a panel this week convened by Health News Illinois in Chicago.
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MATTER, a Chicago-based healthcare incubator, will open a second location in New York City.
