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.
Nearly 70 percent of Chicagoans younger than 6 are exposed to lead-contaminated drinking water, according to a report released this week, which also noted that Chicago has more lead service lines than any other American city.
The Department of Public Health issued more than $3.3 million in fines to 223 Illinois nursing homes during the fourth quarter of 2023, according to recent data.
The Felician Sisters of North America said this week its co-sponsorship of SSM Health in Illinois will end this summer.
University of Chicago, UChicago Medicine and City Colleges of Chicago are teaming up to expand health education and clinical services on the city’s south side.
Illinois pharmacists spoke Tuesday in Springfield in support of legislation to further regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
The Illinois Association of Medicaid Health Plans said Tuesday that Jill Hayden will serve as its new CEO.
A recently filed lawsuit accuses UChicago Medicine and one of its surgeons of negligence in the heart procedure and subsequent death last fall of former Silver Cross Hospital CEO Ruth Colby.
Nurses at Ascension Saint Joseph - Joliet said Tuesday they have filed a wage theft complaint against Ascension Health related to workers being “promised then denied” overtime pay.
UChicago Medicine nurses voted late Tuesday night to authorize a strike if they and their management fail to reach an agreement on a new contract, according to National Nurses United, which represents 2,800 nurses at the system.
The Illinois comptroller’s office on Tuesday launched a new portal to track the state’s expenditures for providing services to asylum seekers.
Illinois’ two Democratic senators this week urged federal officials to take swift action on the state’s 1115 waiver.
Chicago’s new top doctor outlined on Tuesday the various healthcare issues she sees facing the city.
Mary Killough has been chosen as the new director of the Department on Aging.
