Health Care
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Patient information exposed in July attack on DuPage Medical Group computersAug 30, 2021 1:00 am - DuPage Medical Group is notifying 600,000 patients that some of their confidential personal information may have been stolen in a July attack on the group's computer net...
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Advocate Sherman Hospital rescheduling elective surgeries due to a lack of anesthesia providersAug 30, 2021 1:00 am - Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin is putting a hold on elective surgeries for almost three weeks due to a lack of anesthesia providers. In a statement, parent company ...
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Hoffman Estates Park District mandates COVID-19 vaccination for full-time workersAug 27, 2021 1:00 am - The Hoffman Estates Park District this week became the first park district its officials know of in Illinois to impose a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for all its full-ti...
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Walgreens appoints three executives to leadership teamsAug 26, 2021 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD - Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. Friday named employees to three key executive leadership positions. Danielle Gray was appointed executive vice president and gl...
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Constable: Comirnaty might make you have SpikeVax envy, but just get the shotAug 26, 2021 5:30 am - When vaccines came up in conversations with friends, and it did, I took misguided pride in announcing that I got the Pfizer vaccine. I didn't choose Pfizer. It was pure ...
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Alight Solutions adds medical opinions companyAug 25, 2021 11:00 pm - LINCOLNSHIRE - Alight Solutions, a cloud-based provider of human resources and business solutions, Thursday said it has signed an agreement to acquire ConsumerMedical, a...
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Delta will charge unvaccinated employees on the company health plan $200 per month
Aug 25, 2021 1:00 am - Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline's top executive says ...
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Pritzker signs bills on mental health response, insurance coverage
Aug 25, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been steadily acting on more than 660 bills sent to him by the General Assembly this year ahead of a weekend deadline for bill actio...
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Itasca 'super nurse' earns top honor in her fieldAug 24, 2021 6:00 am - Dawn Gonzalez of Itasca is so passionate about nursing that she sometimes works seven days a week in the field. Consequently, when administrators with BrightStar Care in...
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Ambulance carveout is latest Medicaid managed care battleground
Aug 24, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Stakeholders are calling on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to sign a bill that passed the General Assembly unanimously and would remove non-emergency ambulance service...