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The Joint Commission launches new equity certification

Jun 26, 2023 11:00 pm - OAKBROOK TERRACE - The Joint Commission is launching a voluntary Health Care Equity Certification program, effective July 1. The advanced certification will recognize ho...
Crystal Lake's first hospital, Mercyhealth, set to open July 24

Shaw Local News Network
Jun 26, 2023 1:00 am - The new Mercyhealth Hospital and Physician Clinic in Crystal Lake is officially set to open on July 24. The public will be able to tour the facility at 875 S. Route 31 d...
No more needles? A daily pill may work as well as Wegovy shots to treat obesity

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer
Jun 26, 2023 1:00 am - What if treating obesity could be as easy as popping an effective pill? That's a notion that has long fueled hope for many of the more than 40% of Americans who are cons...
Warrenville business opens to treat voice, swallowing, and breathing

Submitted by Ann Kolker Rychel
Jun 25, 2023 11:00 pm - Good Vibrations Voice Therapy, PLLC is now open in Warrenville. The speech pathology practice partners with patients to improve voice, swallowing and breathing. The busi...
Room to operate: Ascension Alexian Brothers showing off modernized surgical facilities

By Elliot Richardson
Jun 25, 2023 7:00 am - Dan Doherty recalls the recent day when Ascension Alexian Brothers staff walked through the site's four new operating rooms. The Elk Grove Village hospital held an open ...
Pritzker signs noncitizen health care plan, immediately pauses enrollment

By Jerry Nowicki Capitol News Illinois jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com
Jun 21, 2023 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. JB Pritzker's administration last week wasted no time exercising new authority granted by lawmakers to limit the number of enrollees in a pair of stat...
Surgalign to sell medical hardware business

Jun 19, 2023 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD - Surgalign Holdings Inc. said Tuesday to sell substantially all of its U.S. medical hardware and biomaterials assets to Xtant Medical Holdings Inc. for $5 mil...
What if you can't afford long-term care? Here are some options

By KATE ASHFORD NerdWallet
Jun 18, 2023 6:00 am - As many as 8 in 10 older Americans couldn't afford more than four years in an assisted living facility or two years in a nursing home, according to a 2023 analysis by th...
Mole-removal scheme nets Lombard doctor 6 months in prison

By Jake Griffin
Jun 16, 2023 1:00 am - A former Lombard doctor will spend six months in federal prison after pleading guilty to health care fraud stemming from a mole-removal scheme he concocted to collect mo...
FDA advisers endorse updating COVID vaccines to target latest omicron strain

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers
Jun 15, 2023 1:00 am - The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall. Today's vaccines still contain the original coronavirus strain, the one that started the pandemic —...

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