Leaders of Cook County’s hospital system say they’re expecting to see more and sicker patients in their emergency rooms and ...

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

Flu activity in suburban Cook County jumped from “low” to “high” during the week ending in Dec. 20, according to health ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Center Square) – Cook County officials say maternal morbidity and mortality is a public health crisis. County Commissioner Donna Miller said Black women in Illinois are three to four times more ...