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A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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The Educare early childhood center, a Head Start preschool on Chicago's South Side, opened over a decade ago inside crime-ridden Robert Taylor Homes housing project.
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Ruth Rothstein, the former chief of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services who was credited for turning around what was once an outdated public health system in Chicago into one of the country's leading models and was considered a major figure among public...
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A battle among radiologists has broken out over the possible sale of a 73-doctor, Chicago-area practice to a Southern California firm on an acquisition binge.
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Ruth Rothstein, the former chief of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services who was credited for turning around what was once an outdated public health system in Chicago into one of the country's leading models and was considered a major figure among public hospital leaders, has died at the age...
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Illinois officials have announced an interstate partnership with Michigan to update Illinois' outdated Medicaid information management system.
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Members of Northwestern University medical school's physician group on Monday voted in favor of a merger with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.
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The families of two Chicago residents are suing Sacred Heart Hospital, alleging that their relatives were given unnecessary procedures that led to their deaths at the now-shuttered Chicago hospital.
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Khlood Salman became a strong advocate for better healthcare for Muslims in the U.S. after finding out shortly after graduating from nursing school that three of her young Muslim friends had breast cancer.
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While the hospital construction boom is a well-documented phenomenon, less attention has been paid to a corollary trend: an uptick in hospital demolitions.
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