Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Illinois legislators traveled to the metro-east on Friday to talk about a new law designed to improve health-care access for the poor and people of color,
Several Chicago hospitals earned low marks in two separate reports released this week, while Rush University Medical Center earned top scores from both.
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That would have eliminated millions of dollars in supplemental Medicaid funding each year.
But Gateway kept its status under Illinois Senate Bill 1530, which was signed into law April 2 by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. It amended the Illinois Public Aid Code with a clause that didn t mention Gateway by name, but effectively added it to a list of hospitals allowed to continue in the state s safety-net program, despite not meeting some requirements.
Gateway CEO Bob Moore described the legislation as something of a lifesaver. If we got out of the safety-net program, this hospital would not be viable, he said Tuesday. We get about $8 million a year in funding from it.
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EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. Magistrate Judge Gilbert Sison on Feb. 18 dismissed physician Melvin Merritt from a suit over delivery of a baby, ruling that plaintiff Heather Turner must sue the United States instead.
Sison found Merritt acted as an employee of Southern Illinois Health Care Foundation, a public health service that qualifies for protection from malpractice suits.
“When a public health service’s employee or officer’s performance of medical functions causes damages, including personal injury or death, the only available remedy is a Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States,” he wrote.
He denied a motion to remand the suit to Madison County circuit court, where Morgan Scroggins of Granite City filed it for Turner last year.