A group of elected officials say they're “resolved to use the authority of the governor, attorney general and mayor of the city of Chicago to help protect the community.”
Four struggling South Side Chicago hospitals plan to merge into a single health care system with one new, state-of-the-art hospital and a network of community health centers under a $1.1 billion plan announced Thursday.
Advocate Trinity Hospital, Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, South Shore Hospital and St. Bernard Hospital serving some of the city’s most impoverished communities had been negotiating the transformation since last year, guided by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, overseer of the Medicaid program poorer patients rely on.
Four struggling South Side hospitals that had tentatively agreed to combine into one health care system are abandoning their billion-dollar plan after hospital officials say state legislators failed to approve crucial funding. […]
December 18, 2020 05:15 AM
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SO, HOW MANY VACCINE DOSES ARE STATES GETTING? The mystery of why tens of thousands of promised COVID-19 vaccine doses won’t be coming to Illinois as scheduled over the next few weeks deepened as states around the country began to complain of the same thing, Greg Hinz reports.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday that federal Operation Warp Speed officials who control distribution of the Pfizer vaccine had informed the state without explanation that its allotment for the next two weeks would be cut “roughly in half.”
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The Illinois Health Facilities & Services Review Board today unanimously voted to deny
Mercy Hospital & Medical Center’s application to close early next year.
Board members expressed concerns that the outpatient center Mercy plans to open in the area won’t be operational until Sept. 30, which would leave some residents without access to medical care immediately following the hospital’s closure in the midst of a pandemic.
Board member Sandra Martell, a public health administrator for the Winnebago County Health Department, is among those who voted not to approve Mercy’s application to close. She said her decision is “based on staff reports and concerns that closure would have a significant impact on the health of the community served by Mercy.”