Vista Health System has closed its freestanding emergency center in Lindenhurst.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago said Monday it will use nearly $1 million from Cook County Health to expand a program aimed at boosting access for pediatric mental health in under-resourced neighborhoods in Chicago.
The Chicago Department of Public Health will partner with the West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force over the next 10 weeks to share resources with the communities most impacted by opioid-related overdoses in recent years.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city’s Department of Public Health launched a new initiative Tuesday evening aimed at addressing youth violence.
Planned Parenthood Great Rivers said this week it will expand the availability of medication abortion to patients 12 weeks into their pregnancy.
Premier Cardiac Surgery Center is planning a nearly $4.8 million modernization at its Merrionette Park facility.
Gov. JB Pritzker praised the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday for tossing out a challenge to federal rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills, calling it a “small victory” in the fight for reproductive health.
Ascension has no evidence those behind a recent ransomware attack took data from its electronic health records and other clinical systems, but the attackers did take files from a “small number of file servers” that may have patient data, a spokesperson said this week.
Panelists recapped some of the most significant healthcare proposals to make it through the General Assembly this spring, during a Health News Illinois event this week in Chicago.
A nearly $53.1 billion spending plan is heading to Gov. JB Pritzker's desk after the House approved it early Wednesday morning.
The House took up several healthcare proposals during its final meeting of the spring session, including one to create a program to provide medical debt relief for up to 300,000 Illinoisans.
The Senate Insurance Committee signed off Tuesday evening on Gov. JB Pritzker's insurance reform package after a lengthy discussion.
Illinois would codify that patients can receive abortion services in an emergency under one of several healthcare bills approved Tuesday by the House.
Nurses at Ascension Saint Joseph – Joliet have approved a new three-year contract.
Gov. JB Pritzker's administration released a pair of reports Friday analyzing how the state responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and outlining how it should prepare for future public health emergencies.
Advocates gathered in Springfield last week to urge lawmakers to boost wages for those who work with individuals with developmental disabilities.
