Illinois news and information

The Illinois state health facilities board today approved two hospital merger deals intended to reshape the landscape of healthcare in the suburbs.
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SEIU-United Healthcare Workers downplayed any threat posed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers last week before defeating their upstart rival a second time for the right to represent the 45,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente in California.
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PITTSBURGH—UPMC, a not-for-profit health system with its tax-exempt status under attack, is fighting back with a lawsuit against its hometown and mayor. The health system's lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Pennsylvania, alleges the city of Pittsburgh...
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Edward J. Novak, the owner and CEO of Sacred Heart Hospital, had been a fixture in healthcare on Chicago's impoverished West Side for decades before he was jailed last week.
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Cook County, Ill., commissioners agreed Wednesday to pay a $2.6 million settlement to three doctors who in two federal lawsuits claimed they were illegally fired from jobs at a hospital on Chicago's South Side.
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Authorities say they were compelled to work behind the scenes in February to prevent a patient from getting a tracheotomy he didn't need at a Chicago hospital under investigation for Medicare fraud.
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Seton Healthcare Family, an Austin, Texas-based division of Ascension Health, named Jesus Garza CEO, effective July 1. Garza, 60, will also start providing oversight of Ascension's Arizona ministry, Carondelet Health Network, and continue serving as the ministry market leader for Ascension...
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Illinois Medicaid Director Julie Hamos is warning that there won't be enough doctors to treat the expected surge next year of new Medicaid patients unless more physicians participate in the health care program for the poor.
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The med student stereotype calls to mind an individual driven by ambition, with their face buried in a book or peering into a microscope. The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine sought to shake up that image last year by resorting to verse. And the Pritzker Poetry Contest was...
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Edward Hospital & Health Services and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare have signed a definitive agreement to merge, a move by Edward CEO Pam Davis to create one of the largest hospital systems in the Chicago area, with total revenue of about $1 billion.
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