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• ‘It’s a tsunami’: Legal challenges threatening public health policy
• 18 vulnerable Chicago neighborhoods. 10 leading health systems. One powerful goal.
• Advocate Aurora plans to combine with Southern health system to create hospital system giant
• AHA News: Black, Hispanic adults less likely to receive CPR from bystanders
• Avoid Toxic Drug Combinations This Flu Season
• Beware of Fake Prescription Pills This Summer
• Christopher Jessup Joins Illinois Health and Hospital Association
• Firearm-related homicide rate skyrockets amid stresses of the pandemic, the CDC says
• Government watchdog: 1 in 4 older Americans on Medicare harmed during hospital stays
• Health care workers burned out during the pandemic. That could impact Illinois’ abortion care.
• Hospital admission totals tick up after weeks of rising COVID-19 cases
• Hospitals look to raise treatment costs as nurses’ salaries increase
• How COVID vaccines have boosted the development of an HIV vaccine
• IHA Daily Briefing: May 10
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• IHA Daily Briefing: May 9
• IHA Health Equity Action Day Is May 13
• Illinois' big gap: Black workers worse off than peers
• Illinois Hospitals Take Action to Achieve Equitable Healthcare
• Illinois Poison Center to Participate in National Poison Prevention Week
• In 2021, US drug overdose deaths hit highest level on record, CDC data shows
• Keeping rural hospitals staffed in face of worker shortages
• Media Advisory: IHA Health Equity Action Day Is May 13
• Mental health worker shortage impacting downstate, rural Illinois
• Millions who got Medicaid coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic could lose it
• More Latinos in nursing needed for culturally competent care
• Nearly 1 million COVID-19 deaths: A look at the US numbers
• Pediatricians hold the front lines of a mental health crisis
• IHA Health Equity Action Day: Media Advisory
• IHA Launches the Racial Equity in Healthcare Progress Report
• Hospitals, Doctors and Nurses Plead: “Don’t Let Your Guard Down. Keep Your Mask Up”
• Illinois Health and Hospital Association Elects New Board
• Illinois Hospitals and Health Systems Infuse More Than $100 Billion Annually Into State’s Economy
• Illinois Poison Center Unveils New Website
• Karen Teitelbaum to Chair 2021 Illinois Health and Hospital Association Board
• Leading Business and Health Care Groups Urge Safe Holiday Celebrations
• March Is Illinois Poison Prevention Month
• IHA Statement on Governor Pritzker's Action Today to Mitigate COVID-19 Surge
• Jordan Powell Joining IHA to Lead on Health Policy and Finance
• MAPS PSO Presents Patient Safety Champion Award to DuPage Medical Group
• IHA Chief Says Vaccine Delivery ‘on Track' to Illinois County Health Departments
• Statement from IHA Re: Hospital and Healthcare Transformation – Senate Bill 1510
• Statement from IHA Re: Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch
• Healthcare Providers, Advocates Urge General Assembly to Protect Telehealth
• IHA Letter re: Graduated Income Tax Proposal
• IHA Opinion: Hospitals Committed to Serving Everyone
• Illinois Poison Center Leader Named President-Elect of AAPCC
• IHA Statement on IDPH Emergency Rules on Face Coverings
• IHA Statement on Health Disparities
• Illinois Hospital and Health Systems Showcase Quality Improvement Initiatives
• Illinois Business and Healthcare Groups Encourage Use of Face Masks to Save Lives, Protect Jobs
• Health Care Organizations Speak Out Against Legal Challenge to Stay-at-Home Order
• Help Us Help You: A Message From Illinois Hospitals and Health Systems During COVID-19 Pandemic
• Hospitals Take Huge Financial Hits Because Of COVID-19
• Illinois Hospitals Issue Plea for Medical Supplies
• Holiday Plants Are Not on the Menu
• Illinois Health and Hospital Association Elects New Board
• Illinois’ Rural Hospitals Celebrate National Rural Health Day
• IPC Cleaning Product Exposures Up 30%
• MAPS PSO Presents Patient Safety Champion Award to a Rush Copley Medical Center Employee
• IHA Honors Illinois Hospitals and Health Systems for Quality Initiatives with Significant Impact
• Is That a Mouse In Your House?
• MAPS PSO Releases White Paper on Top 10 Patient Safety Issues for 2020
• Please Do Not Eat Disinfectant
• States have yet to spend hundreds of millions of Federal dollars to tackle Covid health disparities
• State Of Illinois’ Coronavirus Hotline Fields Myriad Of Calls With Questions, Concerns
• Study: At least half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have symptoms 2 years later
• Summer Plants: Safe or Not?
• Comprehensive Medicaid Managed Care Reform Legislation Will Strengthen Illinois Medicaid Program
• IHA Innovation Challenge: Partners in Progress Award Presented
• Illinois Hospital Leaders to Showcase Quality Improvement Initiatives at the State Capitol
• Illinois Hospital Leaders Urge Legislative Action on Needed Medicaid Managed Care Reforms
• Karen Harris Named IHA Senior Vice President and General Counsel
• March is Illinois Poison Prevention Month
• IHA Elects New Board
• IHA Statement on Texas District Court Ruling on the ACA
• IHA's Longest Serving Employee Retires
• Illinois Poison Center Warns About "Silent Killer" in Homes
• MAPS PSO Presents Patient Safety Champion Award
• Sarah Macchiarola Named IHA Vice President, Federal Government Relations
• Statement from A.J. Wilhelmi Re: Illinois Supreme Court Ruling in Oswald v. Beard
• Statement from A.J. Wilhelmi: Federal Approval of Redesigned Hospital Assessment Program
• Telehealth Legislation Protects Virtual Healthcare Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic
• Telehealth: The wave of the future?
• This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state
• Travel nurses see swift change of fortunes as Covid money runs dry
• What if Delaware disappeared? 1 million Covid-19 deaths explained in 4 charts.
• What’s that building? Mary Thompson Hospital
• White House COVID coordinator: US ‘vulnerable’ to coronavirus without new shots
• With Roe v. Wade about to fall, out-of-state patients are traveling alot of miles to have abortions