Category: Press Releases

The University of Illinois at Chicago is working with the Illinois and Cook County departments of corrections to establish its community health center in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood as a medical home for individuals transitioning from secure custody and parole back to community life. The goal of the initiative, which is led by the UIC […]

January 15, 2019 — TAYLORVILLE, IL – Southern Illinois University School of Medicine is opening a Center for Family Medicine clinic inside Taylorville Memorial Hospital. The new SIU primary care clinic will open on Jan. 15 and will initially be located in the Specialty Clinic space, near the nonprofit hospital’s Laboratory and Rehab Services departments. […]

(Belleville, Illinois) Memorial Hospital Belleville and Memorial Hospital East now are providing stroke telemedicine services, in partnership with Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University Physicians.  This service is available to Emergency Department patients as well as inpatients at both hospitals and provides immediate 24/7 access to Washington University neurologists specializing in stroke treatment. Other benefits include: […]

Five challenge finalists aim to transform primary care experience; Lytic takes home top prize Advocate Aurora Health, the 10th largest not-for-profit integrated health system in the country, and MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, today named Lytic, Inc., a Chicago-based digital health startup, the winner of the Health Tech Venture Challenge. Following a […]

Swedish Covenant Health has completed its Yelda Family Emergency Department renovation to further enhance service to the community by improving the operational efficiency, flexibility and capacity of the department. The newly completed patient and staff areas are now open for use following city and state approvals. Improvements to the Emergency Department include modernizing approximately 16,755 […]