The University of Illinois at Chicago has opened three healthcare simulation centers to provide students and healthcare professionals a chance to practice clinical and decision-making skills and receive hands-on training in medical diagnosis, treatment and care.
The number of Illinoisans without health insurance inched up 0.2 percent last year to 7 percent of the state's population, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has unveiled a plan to phase out ethylene oxide emissions in certain parts of Illinois within the next six years.
Maternal health took center stage in Springfield this past session. Gov. JB Pritzker signed several bills aimed at turning the tide on the number of preventable pregnancy-related deaths, especially among African-American women. Rep. Mary Flowers, D-Chicago, was behind many of the measures.
Illinois State University’s Mennonite College of Nursing has received $2.8 million from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.
Former employees at Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park have sued its parent company, Pipeline Health, over claims it violated U.S. labor laws in its efforts to close the facility.
The Inner-City Muslim Action Network Community Health Center in Chicago will expand its services after receiving a $650,000 award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Wednesday he supports a Trump administration plan that would ban all non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettes from the market.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul has filed a new lawsuit targeting more than a dozen manufacturers and distributors of opioids.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Wednesday he will reject any settlement with Purdue Pharma if its owners, the Sackler family, are not held accountable for the opioid epidemic.
HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Breese broke ground on Monday, September 9 on an expansion of the Clinton County Rural Health medical clinic, located on the campus of St. Joseph’s Hospital.
The executive director of an Oak Forest autism center has pled not guilty to federal fraud charges for allegedly obtaining at least $1.6 million from a private insurer for nonexistent therapeutic services, according to a statement last week from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Eight state lawmakers and the city of Blue Island are calling on the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board to delay a vote on MetroSouth Medical Center's closure. The board is set to meet Sept. 17.
Nearly 2,300 nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center plan to hold a one-day strike next week to highlight concerns about staffing and patient care.
Health officials said Monday they have confirmed an additional four cases of Legionnaires' disease at a retirement home in Batavia, in addition to four other cases confirmed last month.
Advocates of nurse staffing ratios say a new survey conducted by a national nursing organization is further proof that Illinois should limit how many patients each nurse can care for at a time.
