A federal appeals court has upheld a decision dismissing a former Illinois insurer’s lawsuit that claimed it should have received more funding through a temporary Affordable Care Act program.
OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
The number of Illinois healthcare providers using the state’s prescription drug monitoring program increased, while the number of opioids prescribed declined in recent years, according to a recent report from the American Medical Association.
Illinoisans with insurance plans that don’t meet Affordable Care Act requirements can keep those plans another year, the Department of Insurance said last month.
Northwestern Medicine is moving forward with an acquisition of Centegra Health System after obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals. Centegra is set to join the academic health system Sept. 1, more than two years after the merger was first announced.
While the overall child death rate in Illinois was consistent with the national average in 2015, the rate masks disparities across counties and racial groups, according to an analysis released last week by Voices for Illinois Children.
Oak Brook-based Ace Hardware is giving Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago $10 million over the next five years to help fund projects in patient care and advocacy. The gift will also support research and specialized fellowship positions at Lurie’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorder. Ace has raised more than $6 million for the hospital since 1991.
Due to increased demand for pediatric services, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago opens the new 44-bed state-of-the-art Regenstein Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) on June 9, 2018, exactly six years after moving to its downtown facility. The new unit on the 22nd floor is a major milestone in the hospital’s inpatient expansion project that will add 48 beds for intensive care and 24 beds for cancer and blood disorders in 2019, bringing the total number of beds Lurie Children’s operates from 288 to 360. This expansion comes as Illinois hospitals have eliminated over 170 pediatric beds since 2012.
The suicide rate in Illinois increased by 22.8 percent from 1999 to 2016, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Plans for a McHenry nursing home have been scaled back after wetland issues on its originally approved site on the campus of Centegra Hospital-McHenry proved too costly.
Rush University Medical Center is seeking to discontinue a 10-bed inpatient physical rehabilitation unit at its Oak Park Hospital because of low utilization.
Memorial Hospital in Carthage is set to become an affiliate of UnityPoint Health after receiving the official go-ahead from the state. The official partnership is slated to start July 1.
SSM Health named Damon Harbison president of St. Mary’s Hospital in Centralia.
The annual premium for a benchmark plan in Illinois could increase significantly in 2019 due to actions taken by the Trump administration, according to a recent analysis by the left-leaning Center for American Progress.
The federal Department of Justice argued that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional and that a court should strike down the law’s protections for pre-existing conditions in a brief filed Thursday.
Panelists analyzed the impact of the recently signed state budget and the expansion of Medicaid managed care, including lingering concerns over claims denials and adequate networks, at a Health News Illinois event Wednesday.
