Chicago-based Zing Health has completed its acquisition of Lasso Healthcare Insurance, it announced Wednesday.
State and Chicago-area health officials said Wednesday they will adopt federal recommendations for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 years old, with initial shipments of doses already being received by providers.
NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston Hospital plans to discontinue its 22-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit, according to a recent application with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board.
U.S. Sen. Dick Dubin, D-Ill., on Wednesday called for an investigation into a Bronzeville shelter caring for Afghan refugee children after a recent media report of an alleged mental health crisis at the facility.
A proposal to remove parental notification for an abortion heads to Gov. JB Pritzker after passing the House late Wednesday night.
The Illinois House voted Wednesday night to amend the state’s Health Care Right of Conscience Act, though the proposal was modified to remove language that specifies a worker can be fired for noncompliance with a COVID-19 vaccine or test requirement.
The Chicago city council approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s $16.7 billion budget for the coming year, which includes using billions in federal COVID-19 relief funds to address mental health and other challenges raised by the pandemic.
The University of Chicago Medicine plans to expand into northwestern Indiana with a new 116,000-square-foot medical center.
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,013 new COVID-19 cases and 26 deaths on Wednesday.
Low rates, high stress and the growing mental health and opioid epidemics exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic are all challenges to building the behavioral health workforce, experts told lawmakers on Friday.
The Chicago Department of Public Health will begin offering COVID-19 booster doses to eligible individuals on Monday.
Workers at licensed daycare centers will now be required to follow Illinois’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Friday.
The Illinois Senate approved a plan Wednesday paving the way for licensed midwives to practice in the state.
Heritage Health-Springfield announced Wednesday it will close its doors in December, the second nursing home in Springfield to announce plans to close in as many weeks.
A House committee approved a plan Wednesday incentivizing new owners to reopen closed hospitals in Illinois.
Gov. JB Pritzker said Wednesday that Illinois has reached its fifth agreement with unions representing state workers over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
