Without an extension of ACA subsidies, premiums are expected to double and triple for the 550,000 Illinoisans enrolled in the ...

Cook County Health continues to demonstrate the vital role of public health care in strengthening our communities,” said Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. “While the federal landscape ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Provident Hospital of Cook County is transferring several patients amid air conditioning issues in the building, a spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday. The hot temperatures in ...

Chicago, IL, Aug. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cook County Health is proud to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dr. Jorge Prieto Health Center, the health system’s first community-based health ...

Illinois’ Cook County Health & Hospitals System — the public hospital system for the metropolitan Chicago area — has said it plans to close Oak Forest (Ill.) Hospital and convert it into an outpatient ...

Stretching for six blocks along Chicago’s West Side are the seven dirty red brick buildings and the one clean yellow brick building of “Misery Harbor” (Cook County Hospital)—largest general hospital ...

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CHICAGO, Dec. 12 -- It was the inspiration for an award-winning television drama. It spawned the world's first blood bank and the nation's first trauma unit. As it got up in age, it was renovated and ...

Cook County’s Health and Hospitals System in Illinois has spent nearly $19.7 million on overtime costs through the first half of the fiscal year, nearly twice the targeted amount, according to a ...

A 36-year-old man was scheduled to appear at a court hearing Wednesday after he was accused of stabbing two employees Monday at Provident of Cook County Hospital on the South Side, Chicago police said ...