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Across Illinois, more than 80% of all ICU beds are now occupied, according to data from the state's department of public health.The recent uptick in…
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Rural hospitals aren’t just providers of medicine and health care, but also are often major employers and a massive part of a town’s tax base. However,...
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Illinois hospitals will soon receive money to treat millions of people who are covered through Medicaid. The federal government has approved state's...
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During the more than two years that Illinois went without a state spending plan, hospitals, dentists and other health care providers waited months or...
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When Sarah Scantling went into labor this summer, she had to drive 30 miles and across state lines. Three years earlier, the only maternity ward where she…
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$1.25 million. That’s the size of the bill that could have shuttered the only public hospital in rural Pemiscot County, Missouri in August 2013. $750...
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The Illinois Supreme Court considered a case Thursday that asks whether not-for-profit hospitals have to pay property taxes.The case involves Urbana-based…
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Get in a car crash, take a gunshot, or survive a farm machinery accident in rural Illinois or parts of the Metro East, and you’ll likely be taken to St....