Advocates joined Gov. JB Pritzker Monday to call on lawmakers to approve a $10 million investment in the upcoming budget to help eliminate medical debt for 340,000 low-income Illinoisans.
Rolla Sweis is the new CEO of La Rabida Children’s Hospital.
Gov. JB Pritzker announced a new round of grants for grocery stores that open in food deserts. The program is part of a $20 million initiative Pritzker signed into law in August aimed at addressing food deserts and curbing grocery store closures.
Sen. Julie Morrison, D-Lake Forest, wants to boost access to genetic cancer screenings.
Gov. JB Pritzker tapped Sen. Ann Gillespie, D-Arlington Heights, to lead his insurance department. She’s replacing Dana Popish Severinghaus, whose last day is April 15.
More than half of the country’s 113 measles cases so far this year are from Chicago. That’s according to a recent update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The state’s Medicaid managed care rolls dropped by nearly 1 percent in January, according to recent data from the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
Dr. Piyush Vyas, a Chicago-based radiologist, is the new president of the Illinois State Medical Society. He’s been an attending physician at Lovell Federal Health Care Center since 2004, where he served as chief of radiology and nuclear medicine until 2018.
Free and charitable clinics in Illinois are pressing lawmakers to allocate $9 million in state funding next year, which they say will help keep up with an increased demand in services driven by the return of Medicaid redeterminations and the influx of migrants to the state.
Department of Public Health Director Dr. Sameer Vohra made the case for his agency’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year during a recent public hearing.
Hospitals are condemning a recent report that found 86 percent of the 109 Illinois nonprofit hospitals included in its analysis spent less on financial assistance and community investment than the estimated value of their tax breaks.
OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford recently became the system’s second hospital to offer acute care at home.
More children with severe mental health conditions came to pediatric emergency departments and required psychiatric admission during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
A House committee signed off Wednesday on a bevy of healthcare-related bills, including one intended to further shield Illinois abortion providers from out-of-state legal challenges.
Illinois received hundreds of millions of dollars last year from settlements related to tobacco and opioid litigation, Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Wednesday.
Sendy Soto will serve as Chicago’s inaugural chief homelessness officer, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced this week.
