UChicago Medicine said this week it will appoint Dr. Amir Ghaferi as its inaugural executive vice president and chief clinical officer.
Officials said Thursday that West Suburban Medical Center and Weiss Memorial Hospital will be sold to Insight Health Systems.
The University of Illinois’ Board of Trustees approved funding on Thursday for a new drug discovery and cancer research pavilion in Chicago.
Memorial Health and Encompass Health have asked state regulators to approve plans for a new $66.3 million, 60-bed rehabilitation hospital in Springfield.
The union representing the majority of workers at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center has sued to block a Pritzker administration plan to scale back operations at the Anna facility.
State regulators signed off Tuesday on multiple healthcare projects, including a $275 million expansion of Northwestern Medicine’s Orland Park campus to construct a new cancer institute.
North Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories will pay nearly $385 million to settle claims that it knowingly sold formula manufactured in facilities that did not meet safety requirements.
More than one-third of Chicago households now struggle with food insecurity, according to a report released Monday by the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital remains the top children’s hospital in Illinois and is among the top 11 in the country, according to new rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News and World Report.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked Illinois’ new medical aid in dying law from applying to some Catholic organizations who have sued to overturn the law.
A Cook County judge said Friday he will appoint a receiver to take control of West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park and Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Dr. Tripti Kataria said it has been a busy few months since she took over as president of the Illinois State Medical Society.
The Department of Public Health issued its fall respiratory virus immunization guidance on Thursday.
A federal judge on Thursday denied a request from disability rights advocates to block an Illinois law going into effect on Saturday that will allow terminally ill patients to medically end their own lives.
Illinois’ Medicaid managed care enrollment saw a slight drop in July, according to recent data from the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
The troubled Weiss Memorial Hospital has lost its Illinois hospital license, the latest barrier to the potential reopening of the Chicago-based facility.
