Illinois won’t be impacted if Congress doesn’t renew federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program until September, a state official told lawmakers last week.
The head of the department overseeing Illinois’ transition to managed care in the Medicaid program pushed back against concerns about the cost of the change at a public hearing in Chicago last week.
Chicago would serve as the corporate headquarters for a proposed mega merger between Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health in San Francisco.
The state’s chief procurement officer said this week a $12.5 million no-bid contract between the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and McKinsey and Company violates state law.
Enrollment through the Healthcare.gov marketplace continues to grow as consumers face a fast-approaching deadline to sign up for 2018 coverage, according to data released by the federal government Wednesday.
Less than a year after abandoning its efforts to merge with NorthShore University HealthSystem, Advocate Health Care is setting its sights on Wisconsin’s largest system.
BJC HealthCare has filed an application with the state to assume full control of Memorial Hospital Belleville and Memorial Hospital East in Shiloh. It also wants to build a $38.3 million, three-story facility on Memorial Hospital East’s new campus where it would host a Siteman Cancer Center facility in partnership with the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Gov. Bruce Rauner is launching a 24-hour helpline for people addicted to opioids. Specialists staffing the hotline - 1-833-2FINDHELP – will connect callers to treatment and recovery-support services.
Harmony Health Plan, Inc., a subsidiary of WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG), announced today that Dana Barrows, MA LCPC, was named Southern Illinois Care Coordinator of the Year by […]
Gov. Bruce Rauner today toured Mercyhealth’s multimillion-dollar medical complex under construction in Rockford, where leading-edge care and hundreds of high-quality jobs will advance the physical and economic health of Illinoisans. […]
OSF Innovation, a part of OSF HealthCare, is partnering with MassChallenge, a global early-stage startup accelerator headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts that helps young companies succeed through monetary awards, mentorship from […]
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved Centegra Health System’s plans to discontinue 72 beds at its Woodstock hospital and to shuffle services between multiple locations at a recent meeting.
OSF can now accept patients needing more advanced care at its freestanding emergency center in Streator after the Division of Public Health revised its regulatory rules.
Kevin Seely is the new president and CEO at HSHS St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield. He replaces Patti Fischer, who serves as chief operating officer of HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield.
The 368-bed Berwyn hospital is centrally located within Loyola’s regional health system, which also includes Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood and Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park.
OSF HealthCare has tapped Robert Sehring as its new CEO. He’s taking over from Kevin Schoeplein, who's planning to retire at the end of the year after a 39-plus year career with The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis.
