Chicago safety net hospitals — those that have 70% Medicaid utilization — also will be hit hard, according to SEIU Healthcare ...

Nine rural hospitals in Illinois are defined as "at-risk", according to a reputable center for health services research. Here ...

The major budget bill cuts around $1 trillion from health care spending over the next decade, with the Medicaid program ...

When the increase ends, hospital closures that are already a ... More than 300,000 Illinoisans risk losing Medicaid ... The Illinois Hospital Association estimates 15,000 of ...

Stahl noted that financial challenges have become commonplace across the nation’s rural hospitals, forcing some to close. There have been at least 10 rural hospital closures so far in 2023, up ...

The panel - the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board - wields a rare authority over hospital closures, one that doesn't exist in most states.

Illinois health regulators denied a Chicago hospital's bid to close its doors due to increased costs and lower utilization. All six board members present at Tuesday's meeting voted against closure.

Three west-central Illinois nursing homes, including one in Jacksonville, are at elevated risk of closing due to potential ...

A hospital in Illinois will close on Friday due in part to a cyberattack – a rare case of a health care provider publicly linking a hack incident to its closure. The 2021 cyberattack on St ...

An Illinois hospital will shutter its doors this week in part because of a devastating cyberattack, which experts say makes it the first hospital to publicly link criminal hackers to its closure.

Illinois' rate of closures through the 2010s and into the '20s clocked ... It found the risk of closure for ... In the West Side neighborhoods around St. Anthony Hospital, closures by ...