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Walgreens ends buybacks, cuts jobs as profit misses; shares fall
Jul 9, 2020 11:14 AM - Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. plans to cut about 4,000 jobs in the U.K. following a sharp drop in its business there and suspend stock buybacks, as the coronavirus pandemic jolts its business around the world. -
Winchester House nursing home residents all to be moved into replacement today
Jul 9, 2020 5:22 AM - After more than 150 years, a new era in skilled nursing for Lake County residents will begin today with the opening of a new facility to replace the age-old Winchester House. The yellowed page will officially turn after all 98 residents of the five-story building at Winchester Road and Milwaukee Avenue in Libertyville are transferred in an elaborately planned move. -
$40 million 'high end' senior living facility gets approval in Elgin
Jul 9, 2020 5:10 AM - A project is moving forward in Elgin for a $40 million "high end" senior living facility with amenities like a pub with daily happy hour, a full-service spa, a putting green, a playground and a fenced-in dog park. -
Walgreens dives into primary care with clinic expansion
Jul 9, 2020 6:37 AM - Walgreens will squeeze primary care clinics into as many as 700 of its U.S. stores over the next few years in a major expansion of the care it offers customers. -
Northwest Community Healthcare inks merger deal with NorthShore
Jul 8, 2020 6:40 PM - Long rumored, Arlington Heights-based Northwest Community Healthcare on Wednesday announced it has inked a merger agreement that will end its independent status after 61 years. -
COVID-19 antibody testing in NapervilleJul 8, 2020 5:25 PM - Oswald's Pharmacy in Naperville is set to begin an FDA-approved antibody testing process for COVID-19 on Friday.
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37 more dead from COVID-19 as Pritzker announces new federal aid for hospitals
Jul 7, 2020 7:01 PM - State health officials announced Tuesday 37 more Illinois residents have died from COVID-19 and another 587 were infected. Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the state had received $250 million in additional federal aid for hospitals Tuesday. -
Local health centers get COVID-19 emergency grants from Delta Dental of Illinois FoundationJul 7, 2020 6:12 PM - Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation, the charitable arm of Delta Dental of Illinois, has awarded $1 million through its emergency grant program to 20 Federally Qualified Health Centers working to improve the oral and overall health of Illinois residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Four of those health centers are in Addison, Aurora, Elgin and Waukegan.
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DuPage Medical Group names new CEO
Jul 7, 2020 2:00 PM - DuPage Medical Group has tapped the former CEO of UnitedHealthcare to lead the Downers Grove-based physicians group. -
Doctors say experimental treatment may have rid man of HIV
Jul 7, 2020 8:07 AM - Doctors say a Brazilian man who was infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body
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