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The Tribune Paints a Grim Picture Regarding Weiss Hospital
In case you missed it, the Chicago Tribune came out with a detailed investigative report this weekend regarding the financial malfeasance underlying the 2025 closure of Weiss Hospital and the 2026 closure of West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. According to the article, the 2022 purchase of the hospitals...
fox32chicago.com
Community pushes to reopen two closed Chicago-area hospitals
Community advocates, residents and health care leaders are pushing for the reopening of two Chicago-area hospitals that closed last year.
beckershospitalreview.com
Illinois hospital centralizes supply chain, purchasing operations
Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System has selected Premier for group purchasing and supply chain services. The agreement gives HSHS access to Premier’s group purchasing program, integrated data and analytics, supply chain solutions, advisory services, collaboratives and other resources, according to an Aug. 27 news release. The partnership will...
evanstonroundtable.com
‘We’re being stretched too thin’: Saint Francis Hospital nurses petition to unionize
Registered nurses at Saint Francis Hospital filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board on Aug. 24. The petition, filed on behalf of 275 employees at the hospital, applies to full-time, regular part-time and per diem registered nurses. “We’re being stretched too thin that we can’t care...
chicagolandchamber.org
More Than 60 Years of Progress: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s Commitment to Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Presented by St. Jude Children’s Reserach Hospital. As Sickle Cell Awareness Month approaches this September, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is reflecting on more than 60 years of advancing lifesaving care and groundbreaking research for sickle cell disease patients, regardless of a child’s race, background, or ability to pay. That commitment is perhaps best exemplified through the legacy of Dr. Rudolph Jackson, one of the first Black physicians at St. Jude and a pioneering force in the fight against sickle cell disease.
ABC 7 Chicago
Former Loretto Hospital CFO indicted again, accused in COVID-19 testing fraud scheme
A former CFO for Chicago's Loretto Hospital is being indicted again. He was in court to face charges tied to a fraud scheme. He is now also being indicted in a COVID-19 testing fraud scheme worth tens of millions of dollars.
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Nurses at Prime Illinois hospital seek union election
Registered nurses at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill., have petitioned for a union election, according to a filing with the National Labor Relations Board. The National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United filed the petition Aug. 24 with the board’s Chicago regional office, seeking to represent 275 full-time, regular part-time and per diem registered nurses, NLRB records show. Advanced practice registered nurses, agency and registry nurses, nurse administrators and supervisors are excluded from the proposed unit.
beckershospitalreview.com
2 HCA Florida hospitals name COO, COO-CNO
Two Florida hospitals within Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare have appointed new COOs, including one who will also serve as chief nursing officer. J.R. Rehmann, BSN, RN, was named COO of HCA Florida Largo Hospital, according to an Aug. 21 LinkedIn post from the hospital. He began his career as a firefighter, paramedic and emergency department nurse. He most recently served as vice president of nursing operations for HCA Healthcare West Florida Division.
beckersasc.com
11 health systems snapping up physician practices in 2026
Health systems have continued to expand their outpatient footprints in 2026 through physician practice acquisitions, acquiring groups across specialties including cardiovascular care, pediatrics, primary care and radiology. Here are the physician practice acquisitions by hospitals and health systems that Becker’s has reported this year, ordered by acquisition date. 1....
FOX 32 Chicago
Why Chicago nurses are protesting hospital use of Palantir technology
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Paralyzed after medication error, Ascension patient transferred to Chicago rehab facility
Twelve days after a medication error at an Ascension hospital in Nashville, Tenn., harmed four patients, one of them is paralyzed below the sternum and being treated in Chicago, The New York Times reported Aug. 26. The hospital, Ascension St. Thomas Hospital Midtown, has said four joint replacement patients were...
Fox 32 Chicago
Inside Lurie Children’s helicopter transport team
Go onboard with Lurie Children’s helicopter transport team to see the unique challenges nurses face while caring for young patients in the air. FOX Chicago is teaming up with the hospital to help raise $10,000 for its Chicago Marathon team, supporting programs like this one.
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Austin HOPE Center Opens, Bringing Pediatric Care To West Siders
AUSTIN — The Austin HOPE Center opened Thursday with neighbors like Michael Burgess in mind. The 18-year-old Austin native grew up needing to make frequent hospital visits to treat his sickle cell anemia, a disease with the highest rates among Black populations. Before gene-editing therapy cured Burgess’ disease, he would travel more than an hour roundtrip to lay in hospital beds when his peers were outside playing and making memories with their friends, he said.
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Chicago physician practice faces $5.2M false claims allegations
A Chicago-based podiatry practice and its owner have been named in a joint federal and state civil complaint alleging they submitted more than $5.2 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid by billing under other physicians’ names after the practice owner was terminated from the Medicaid program, the Justice Department said in an Aug. 18 news release.
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Northwestern Medicine announces plans for cancer hospital in Orland Park
Northwestern Medicine announced Monday it is moving ahead with plans to build a new 150,000-square-foot cancer institute in Orland Park, marking one of the most significant healthcare investments the village has ever seen. “I’m thrilled,” said Trustee John Lawler. “This is huge for not just Orland Park but for the...