Community health worker programs have helped to improve health outcomes, but a newsurvey released this week shows that sustained funding is necessary to keep those programs operating post-pandemic.
A state-based health insurance exchange would give the state more flexibility for open enrollment, outreach and coordinating coverage for individuals eligible for Medicaid.
BJC Healthcare, which has hospitals in southern Illinois, plans to merge with Kansas City-based Saint Luke’s Health System to form a $10 billion, 28-hospital health system that would span Missouri, Kansas and Illinois.
After a contentious debate, the Chicago City Council approved an ordinance Wednesday to spend $51 million on migrant care.
Lawmakers advanced a proposal Thursday to the House floor providing protections for Chicago first responders who were severely injured or disabled by COVID-19 before vaccines were available.
Republicans on Thursday called for legislative hearings to investigate reports of abuse by staff at a downstate mental health facility.
Five Illinois Democrats joined colleagues last week to introduce a proposal to expand family and medical leave.
Illinois’ two Democratic senators have asked the nation’s largest pharmacies about ways that policymakers can help improve access to reproductive health services.
Illinois abortion providers were prepared for the influx of out-of-state patients that came to the state after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, but there is still more to be done to expand reproductive health services, panelists said at a virtual Health News Illinois event Wednesday.
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More than 110,000 Illinoisans have signed up for 2023 health insurance coverage through Healthcare.gov, according to federal data released Wednesday.
Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson, said Wednesday she remains hopeful that Congress will take steps to address the maternal health crisis in the final weeks of the current session.
The leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week that flu hospitalizations remain the highest they’ve been at this time of year in a decade, as the nation continues to grapple with a spike in respiratory illnesses.
Illinois continued to provide good mental healthcare, but racial disparities and high levels of air pollution are still prevalent issues in the state, according to an annual report from the United Health Foundation.
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Illinois inmates would be guaranteed access to free menstrual products under a measure passed by the Legislature at the end of the veto session last week.
The city of Chicago is making Narcan nasal spray — used in emergencies to prevent fatal overdoses — available for free at all 81 of its public libraries.
If the federal public health emergency over COVID-19 expires in April, Illinois’ Medicaid rolls are estimated to decline by 526,000 people — around 17.3 percent — in the following 14 months, according to a report released Monday.
