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Northwestern Medicine Receives State Approval to Build New Cancer Institute in Orland Park
Northwestern Medicine announced The Certificate of Need for Facility was approved by the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board to build a new cancer institute in Orland Park. Northwestern Memorial Foundation received a generous grant from The St. George Foundation in support of oncology services in the south suburbs....
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Albany Care faces potential shutdown by early 2027
Content warning: This story contains mentions of death. For years, Albany Care has faced scrutiny due to concerns about patient safety. These worries came to the fore when, in April, the Illinois Department of Public Health issued a Level 6 sanction and a license revocation notice against the Evanston mental health rehabilitation center.
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CommonSpirit creates ASC division to ‘accelerate’ growth beyond its 80 surgery centers
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has launched CommonSpirit Ambulatory Ventures, a new division aimed at organizing and expanding the health system’s ambulatory surgery center portfolio. The move is part of CommonSpirit’s broader effort to diversify beyond acute care and “accelerate growth” in ambulatory services, according to financial documents published Oct. 1....
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Roseland Community Hospital to close labor and delivery unit, raising concerns about maternal care
A hospital on Chicago's South Side plans to close its labor and delivery department. The closure comes as Prime Healthcare ended obstetrics services at three other hospitals in Joliet, Aurora and Chicago on Thursday.
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Elevance takes aim at hospital outpatient markups
Elevance Health is taking aim at one of health systems’ most profitable billing practices. The insurer plans to require hospitals to list where care was physically delivered on claims, and it will pay off-campus services at off-campus rates rather than hospital outpatient rates. The insurer announced Sept. 29 that...
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Dr. Mary Harris Thompson: The Chicago Pioneer Who Opened Doors for Women in Medicine
In 1865, becoming a doctor was an uphill battle for women. Chicago physician Dr. Mary Harris Thompson decided to do something about it. On May 8 of that year, Thompson founded the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, creating a place where women and children could receive medical care and female physicians could practice at a time when hospital positions were largely closed to them.
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Thousands set to lose Medicaid access
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More than 9,000 noncitizens in Illinois to lose Medicaid coverage due to new law
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Chicago Is Ground Zero as Illinois Strips Medicaid From Legal Immigrants: Key Facts for Affected Families
Refugees, asylees, and trafficking survivors in Illinois lost federally funded Medicaid coverage today as H.R. 1 takes effect — and Chicago communities are at the center of the crisis.
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Give hospital’s neighbors a voice
Dear Village President Scaman and Village Trustees,. My name is Christopher Hahs. My wife and I are raising our three OPRF High School daughters in our home at 609 Wenonah Avenue. We have taught our daughters to be thoughtful, engaging community members and leaders. As a parent I want to exemplify these teachings by writing today to ask that you please vote in favor of Trustee Brian Straw’s proposal to lower Oak Park RUSH hospital’s automatic height limit from 125 feet down to a community-needed 60 feet.
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Rush expands minimally invasive spine care with Rothman surgeon addition
Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush has added Ameen Barghi, MD, to its spine surgery team, effective Oct. 19. Dr. Barghi specializes in minimally invasive and robotic navigated spine surgery, according to a Sept. 28 news release from the health system. He will see patients at the group’s Chicago, Joliet, Naperville, Oak Brook and Westchester, Ill., clinics.
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UCMed, AbbVie Foundation Mark End to Cancer Pavilion Construction
Executives from UChicago Medicine (UCMed) and the AbbVie Foundation gathered Thursday to celebrate the end of construction on the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, a 575,000-square-foot facility in the UCMed complex dedicated exclusively to cancer research and treatment. Led by AbbVie Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center...
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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.
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$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.”