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• 18 vulnerable Chicago neighborhoods. 10 leading health systems. One powerful goal.
• As Pritzker pushes for nursing home reform, report details weaknesses in state’s LTC oversight
• Avoid Toxic Drug Combinations This Flu Season
• Beware of Fake Prescription Pills This Summer
• Christopher Jessup Joins Illinois Health and Hospital Association
• COVID-19 has killed 1 of every 500 Illinois residents
• Data shows more children are getting sick and dying from Covid
• Eating too much salt is making Americans sick. Even a 12% reduction can save lives
• FDA authorizes an e-cigarette for first time, citing benefit for smokers
• FDA panel endorses broad use of Johnson & Johnson booster shot
• FDA vaccine advisers recommend EUA for booster dose of Moderna's Covid vaccine
• 'Harm reduction' clinic offers overdose antidote, clean needles — and hope
• Health panel explores rural healthcare workforce in the age of COVID-19
• Hospital Sisters Health System raises minimum wage to $15 an hour for employees statewide
• Hospitals have spent more than $3B getting PPE during pandemic
• IHA Daily Briefing: Oct. 11
• IHA Daily Briefing: Oct. 12
• IHA Daily Briefing: Oct. 13
• IHA Daily Briefing: Oct. 14
• IHA Daily Briefing: Oct. 15
• IHA Daily Briefing: Oct. 18
• IHA Daily Briefing: Oct. 6
• IHA Daily Briefing: Oct. 7
• IHA Daily Briefing: Oct. 8
• IHA Health Equity Action Day: Media Advisory
• IHA Launches the Racial Equity in Healthcare Progress Report
• Illinois emergency rule requires hospitals, health care facilities to track staff vaccination record
• NIH study: Moderna, Pfizer shots are most effective Covid boosters
• Nursing schools see applications rise, despite COVID burnout
• OSF HealthCare joins platform to address health inequity
• Outreach and treatments are attributed for Chicago's decline in overdoses
• Report: Nursing homes in crisis with staff shortages
• 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
• Rural Illinois doesn’t have enough health workers, and the pandemic made it worse
• 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
• State Of Illinois’ Coronavirus Hotline Fields Myriad Of Calls With Questions, Concerns
• 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
• Taking aspirin to prevent heart attack may cause more harm than good, task force says
• Telehealth Legislation Protects Virtual Healthcare Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic
• The Covid vaccine doesn’t cause infertility, but the disease might
• U.S. sees record high of 96,000 drug overdose deaths in 12 month period
• UChicago Medicine’s Doctors, Staff Got Transplant Patients New Hearts Faster Than Any Other Hospital
• Vaccine mandates stoked fears of labor shortages. But hospitals say they’re working.
• With hospitals crowded from COVID, 1 in 5 American families delays health care
• You can’t work at this southwestern Illinois hospital without COVID-19 vaccination