Category: Press Releases

Advocate Aurora Health distributes more than 1 million masks to individuals and community organizations

by Ryan Voyles | Jun 24, 2020 | Press Releases | 0

Advocate Aurora Health today announced it has distributed 1 million procedural masks to 60 community organizations across Illinois and Wisconsin and another 140,000 cloth masks to individuals to reinforce the safety of communities that have been disproportionately impacted as the fight against COVID-19 wages on.

MacNeal Hospital launches first clinical trial in Illinois of novel monitoring device for congestive heart failure patients

by Ryan Voyles | Jun 24, 2020 | Press Releases | 0

MacNeal Hospital is the first hospital in Illinois to participate in a national, randomized clinical trial using daily vital signs and lung pressure measurement to manage patients with congestive heart failure.

Oak Street Health Continues Nationwide Expansion, Announces Entry into New York and Mississippi by End of 2020

by Ryan Voyles | Jun 23, 2020 | Press Releases | 0

Oak Street Health, a network of primary care centers that delivers value-based care to adults on Medicare, today announced further plans for nationwide expansion in 2020 with the company’s first centers in New York and Mississippi anticipated to open later this year.

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Sinai Health System Receives $7M from CARES Act Funding for Ambulatory Surgery Center at Ogden Commons

by Ryan Voyles | Jun 18, 2020 | Press Releases | 0

Sinai Health System will receive $7 million for its Ambulatory Surgery Center from a Community Development Block Grant as part of the CARES Act funding for the City of Chicago. The funding allocation was approved by the City Council on June 17th.

Data science helps guide Memorial Health System during COVID-19 pandemic

by Ryan Voyles | Jun 8, 2020 | Press Releases | 0

The power of data science is allowing officials at Memorial Health System to constantly track positive COVID-19 cases and hospital bed capacity, ensure timely test results and detect emerging “hot spots” in communities.