A Medicaid official said Friday that the state hasn't decided when it will launch integrated health homes, an initiative aimed at increasing care coordination and a key part of the state’s overhaul of behavioral healthcare in Medicaid.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered his administration Friday to reinvest in HIV testing and treatment programs that he says were discontinued under the Rauner administration.
The Health Resources and Services Administration is awarding more than $31 million to nine community health centers in Illinois, Illinois Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin recently announced.
Pipeline Health officially entered Illinois this week, closing a deal to buy three Chicago-area hospitals formerly owned by Tenet Healthcare: West Suburban Medical Center, Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital and Westlake Hospital.
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker is appointing Dr. Ngozi Ezike to serve as director of the Department of Public Health.
Amita Health has hired a slate of new executives to lead its three operating regions. It also named a new chief for its post-acute care division.
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received another $12 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue its role in a national study on the health of the Hispanic and Latino community. It’s the largest study ever of its kind, according to a statement from the university.
The Fertility Centers of Illinois is planning to build a $15.6 million surgery center in the River North neighborhood of Chicago and hopes to develop two more in the coming years.
The American Lung Association gave failing grades Tuesday to some of Illinois’ tobacco policies, although it lauded the state’s smoking restrictions.
Advocate Aurora Health and Oak Street Health are teaming up on a primary care center in Elgin for Medicare patients.
(Chicago, IL) — January 29, 2019 —The Board of Directors of the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois (NKFI) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dinee Collings Simpson, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division...
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Loyola University Medical Center has tapped Tad Gomez to serve as its next president. Gomez is coming from Northeast Georgia Health System, where he served as vice president of professional and support services. Before that, Gomez was at Augusta University Health in Georgia, where Loyola Medicine CEO Shawn Vincent also previously worked.
Tenet’s $70 million sale of its three Chicago-area hospitals is complete, the system announced Tuesday.
Twenty-eight of the roughly 120 Illinois nursing homes cited during the fourth quarter of 2018 were deemed to have significant safety issues, according to a new report from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Normandie Brown literally came with the building Naperville—On Jan. 31, the Illinois Health and Hospital Association (IHA) will lose its longest serving employee Normandie (Norm) Brown to retirement. After 57 years of...
Read MoreSPRINGFIELD – Memorial Medical Center was recognized as a Blue Distinction Center+ for cardiac care by Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated hospitals that show expertise in delivering...
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