Health Care
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‘It’s a space for you’: Frontline Care Center offers mental health services to first responders and veteransDec 09, 2024 9:48 pm - Dozens of first responders, caregivers and local officials Monday welcomed what was described as a milestone in providing mental health services to emergency service personnel, veterans and their families.
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Advocate Children's Hospital seeks Magnet redesignation for nursing excellenceDec 09, 2024 5:25 pm - Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge pursues elite Magnet nursing credential. Find out how you can provide feedback by Jan. 17.
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Man in custody had a gun, mask and writings tying him to killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO, police say
Dec 09, 2024 11:37 am - Police arrested a “strong person of interest” Monday in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO after a quick-thinking McDonald’s employee in Pennsylvania alerted authorities to a customer who was found with a weapon and writings linking him to the ambush.
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Meridian Health to drop Northwestern Medicine from network in 2025
Dec 08, 2024 8:41 am - Health insurance provider Meridian Health no longer will accept Northwestern Medicine health system in network beginning Jan. 1, a health system spokesman confirmed.
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How RFK Jr.’s health proposals could affect Illinois
Dec 07, 2024 4:00 pm - Every new presidential administration comes with policy changes, but the incoming second administration of President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed secretary of Hea...
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‘We’re not impervious’: Lake County’s first-of-its-kind care center for first responders and veterans opensDec 07, 2024 4:00 pm - Frontline Care Center, Lake County’s first outpatient mental health site for current and former first responders and veterans is opening in Round Lake.
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Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO spotlights complex challenge companies face in protecting top brass
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UnitedHealth shooting dredges up enmity for health insurers
Dec 06, 2024 8:32 am - The shooting death of high-ranking UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson has uncovered a deep anger among Americans who say the health insurance industry has too often failed to cover large medical bills and stood in the way of necessary care.
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Police believe gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO has left New York City
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‘It really does make business sense’: Lake Zurich firm earns accolade for green practicesDec 05, 2024 2:35 pm - Alpha Tekniko, which designs and makes products for the health care industry, is the 2024 winner of Lake Zurich’s Green Business Award for integrating eco-friendly practices in daily operations.