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Arlington Heights health center gets $3.2 million from Rescue Plan

Daily Herald report
Jul 30, 2021 3:53 PM - An Arlington Heights-based federally qualified health center has received $3.2 million as part of a recent award of stimulus funds for vaccine efforts and to enhance services and infrastructure.
State advises some Hoffman Estates clinic mammogram patients to seek second opinion

By Eric Peterson
Jul 31, 2021 3:35 PM - The Illinois Emergency Management Agency is urging those who've had a mammogram performed at a Hoffman Estates medical imaging clinic since Oct. 17, 2019, to seek a second opinion and consult their doctors.
These suburban hospitals rank among the state's best in new rankings

By Elena Ferrarin
Jul 27, 2021 5:58 PM - Several suburban hospitals, including Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Edward Hospital in Naperville and Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, rank among the 10 best in Illinois, according to rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report.
Pritzker signs bills expanding access to mental health care

By PETER HANCOCK
Jul 26, 2021 5:26 PM - Illinois residents will soon have greater access to mental health services under measures Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Friday. Starting Jan. 1, most insurance companies doing business in Illinois will be required to provide their beneficiaries with timely and proximate access to treatment for mental, emotional, nervous or substance abuse disorders.
Pritzker signs bill allowing over-the-counter birth control

Chicago Sun-Times
Jul 22, 2021 4:28 PM - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday signed a law allowing pharmacists to assess and prescribe hormonal birth control to patients, a move Pritzker and champions of the bill called a "common-sense approach" to helping women get contraceptives from trusted sources.
DuPage Medical Group outage resolved, but 'minimal delays' may remain

Daily Herald report
Jul 19, 2021 6:07 PM - DuPage Medical Group is still investigating what caused a network outage that lasted nearly a week.
A potential lifesaver: Winfield hospital to study drug for deadliest type of stroke

By Katlyn Smith
Jul 19, 2021 9:39 AM - A major clinical trial could hold the promise of a potentially lifesaving drug for people suffering hemorrhagic strokes. Northwestern Medicine hospitals in Winfield and Chicago plan to take part in the federally funded study of a medication aimed at slowing or even stopping bleeding in the brain.
Network outage at DuPage Medical Group extends into second day

By Katlyn Smith
Jul 15, 2021 4:09 PM - For the second day, DuPage Medical Group was still trying to fully restore its network system Wednesday, but the health care provider remained tight-lipped about the source of an outage that interfered with phone lines.
Ambulnz launches dialysis transportation service in Illinois

Jul 14, 2021 2:31 PM - A New York company said it is expanding into Illinois to provide transportation for dialysis patients at nine Fresenius Kidney Care centers, with plans to expand coverage to an additional 50 Chicago-area clinics in the coming months.
U.S. overdose deaths hit record 93,000 in pandemic last year

By MIKE STOBBE
Jul 14, 2021 9:33 AM - Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase.

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