Nurses have been organizing and holding strikes and pickets at local Prime hospitals since Prime bought eight Illinois hospitals last year, and a ninth — Olympia Fields — earlier this year.
Weiss Memorial Hospital has lost its Illinois hospital license, even as its owners and community leaders continue to discuss plans to reopen the facility.
West Suburban and Weiss Memorial’s collapse illustrates what can go wrong in a state that largely relies on and subsidizes the private sector to run safety-net hospitals.
Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay $670 million to settle a high-profile lawsuit and 2,000 other claims related to allegations that its formula for babies born prematurely causes a dangerous intestinal disease.
The experimental drug, called daraxonrasib, does not cure pancreatic cancer, which is one of the deadliest and most difficult-to-treat cancers, but it gives many patients the next best thing: more time.
A three-judge panel for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday affirmed a jury’s decision to convict two former Outcome Health executives on multiple counts of fraud.
Two Chicago hospitals — Northwestern Memorial and Rush University Medical Center — are again tied for best hospital in the state and rank among the top 20 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report.
A group of faith and community leaders are pushing the governor’s office to step in to help reopen Weiss Memorial Hospital and West Suburban Medical Center – as a battle over the hospitals’ futures drags on in court.
For 2027, the state’s largest health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, is proposing an average price increase of 14.9% across its exchange plans.
Prime Healthcare plans to permanently close the inpatient pediatrics unit at St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet – adding the hospital to a growing list of Chicago area facilities eliminating such care.
