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Wrapping up Recovery Month with Alpharus Health, formerly Gateway Foundation: Rebrand and resources
In honor of National Recovery Month, Jeremy Klemanski, CEO and president of Alpharus Health, formerly known as Gateway Foundation, joins Community Voices to discuss the organization’s recent rebrand, why the name changed, and what the new name represents. Klemanski also discusses Alpharus Health’s residential and outpatient treatment options, including a program designed for working professionals, and how treatment plans are tailored to each person’s needs. He shares what he wants people to understand about substance use disorder and recovery, the importance of meeting people where they are, and why there is help and hope for those who are struggling. He also highlights recovery resources, community partnerships, and ways people can support organizations working in the field.
beckersasc.com
$45 an hour: Medicaid’s anesthesia rate lands on ASCs
For ASCs with heavy Medicaid and Medicare volume, anesthesia stipends are often a government payment gap passed down to the facility. “California’s Medicaid program values an anesthesiologist’s time at between $40 and $50/hour, leaving the burden of the delta between $45 and the market rate on the facility to cover,” Patrick Haley, vice president of Aptos (Calif.) Surgery Center, told Becker’s. “The disparity in reimbursement between governmental and commercial payers exacerbates the problem by shifting the cost to facilities least able to afford large subsidies.”
WTTW - Chicago PBS
Future Remains Uncertain for Two Chicago-Area Safety-Net Hospitals Under New Ownership
Residents in two Chicago-area communities are hoping to see their safety-net hospitals reopened under new leadership. Insight Health Systems reached a deal last week to purchase both Weiss Memorial Hospital in Uptown and West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park after both shuttered following years of reported mismanagement and poor structural conditions.
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Watch Deborah Brooks discuss Black maternal health disparities
Deborah Brooks, First Lady of Grace Central Church and a leader with the First Ladies Health Initiative, discusses Chicago Health Day and why breast cancer often goes undetected in Black women. Brooks talks trust, dense breast tissue, warning signs and why bringing screenings into churches is changing outcomes across Chicago’s communities.
theashlandchronicle.com
Chicago Conference Focuses on Retaining Women Doctors & Increasing Their Pay
Women physicians can make millions less than their male colleagues, but a Chicago oncologist is working to change that. Why it matters: The pay gap is just one of the factors forcing women out of the profession, with negative effects on patient care. Driving the news: More than 500 health...
WGN News
Chicago AIDS Run & Walk fights to protect resources for HIV patients
The 25th annual Chicago AIDS Run & Walk raised money to provide services for people with HIV and AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases which overtime have claimed countless lives in Chicago, the country and throughout the world.
The Hill
Opinion: How private equity is killing public access to hospitals and emergency care
The corporatization of the health care system by private equity has come with significant costs. While private equity’s ownership of hospitals may earn millions for their investors, they have put patients, communities and providers at risk.
Block Club Chicago
CVS Opens Pharmacy-Only Lake Meadows Location
LAKE MEADOWS — Seventeen months after the departure of Walgreens, CVS Pharmacy welcomed neighbors to its new location inside Lake Meadows Shopping Center Wednesday, filling a critical healthcare gap in the community. CVS executives and staff were joined by Ald. Lamont Robinson (4th) for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the...
Axios Chicago
A Chicago doctor is trying to keep women in the profession
Women physicians can make millions less than their male colleagues, but a Chicago oncologist is working to change that. Why it matters: The pay gap is just one of the factors forcing women out of the profession, with negative effects on patient care. Driving the news: More than 500 health care workers are meeting this weekend at the Women in Medicine Summit at The Drake Hotel to discuss this and other issues facing women doctors. Flashback: Shikha Jain hosted the first Women in Medicine Summit in 2019 to create a forum for women to share frustrations and solutions. What they're saying: "I faced all of these challenges that I thought were because I was the problem. I thought that I wasn't good enough for a leadership position, or I thought that I didn't get these opportunities because I must not be working hard enough," Jain tells Axios. "The more women I started talking to, the more I realized, 'holy cow! All of these other women are facing very similar challenges. Why are we not talking about this more?" The big picture: Studies have found that women surgeons have lower hospital readmission rates than their male colleagues. They also spend more
WTTW - Chicago PBS
Chicago Launches Street Psychiatry Pilot Program to Bring Care to Unhoused Patients
Healthcare providers and community health workers gathered Wednesday at the South Shore Cultural Center to celebrate the formal launch of a citywide street psychiatry pilot program that aims to directly reach unhoused Chicagoans living with complex mental health needs. “As a provider, there’s no feeling more defeating than knowing someone...
beckersasc.com
The race to expand the CRNA workforce
The anesthesia workforce shortage has become one of the most persistent pressures on surgical care, and ASCs are feeling it on their balance sheets. About two-thirds of ASC leaders consider anesthesia coverage among their top three financial challenges in 2026, and the anesthesiologist shortage is projected to more than double by 2031. Nearly two-thirds of anesthesia positions relied on locum tenens coverage in 2025, the highest reliance on temporary staffing among physician specialties.
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New West Sub owners, Insight Health Systems, struggle with reopening hospitals in Ohio
Insight Health Systems, originally founded in Flint, Michigan, recently took over ownership and operation of West Suburban Medical Center, sharing its intentions to rehabilitate and reopen the struggling hospital. However, this is not its first time taking over a failing medical provider, and those are yet to successfully reopen. In...
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RSNA Unveils Plenary Lineup for 2026 Annual Meeting, Spotlighting Radiology’s Role at the Center of Care
The upcoming meeting at Chicago’s McCormick Place will feature sessions on leadership, breast imaging, mass casualty response, and AI in interventional radiology. The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has announced the plenary session slate for its 112th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, RSNA 2026: At the Center of Care, to be held Nov 29 to Dec 3 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
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City asks judge to reimpose Albany Care admissions ban, shut facility down ‘if violations continue’
While a Cook County judge overturned state regulators’ ban on new patient admissions at Albany Care, the psychiatric rehab facility at 901 Maple Ave. could be restricted again in a few months, as the City of Evanston is asking a different judge to impose a new ban and order the facility to shut down “if violations continue.”
Fox 32 Chicago
Chicago weather: Cool temperatures stick around before a warmer weekend
CHICAGO - It has been a cloudy and cool Wednesday with temperatures in the 60s for most of Chicagoland. Gusty northeast winds are once again resulting in high waves on Lake Michigan, so a Beach Hazard Statement remains in effect for central and northern Cook County beaches until 10 PM, and until noon Thursday for Lake County, Illinois.