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Dr. Raju Focuses on Affordable Care Act Upheld

June 28, 2012 Tagged with:

Today, the United States Supreme Court upheld the vast majority of the Affordable Care Act.  This is a momentous decision for our patients and for healthcare in this Country. In Washington D.C., they recently unveiled a beautiful monument to one… [Read More]

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National HIV Testing Day

June 28, 2012 Tagged with: , ,

Peter McLoyd, Consumer Development and Advocacy Coordinator, at the CORE Center, one of the six agencies of the Cook County Health and Hospitals System explains that modern testing is quick, easy and painless. Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center Celebrates National HIV… [Read More]

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HIT makeover, public health style

June 27, 2012

How do you measure a makeover? In this case, neither by the blueness of the eye shadow, nor the height of the heels. Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCHHS) wholly reconditioned its data network. The nation’s third largest public… [Read More]

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Cook County Department of Public Health Urges Area Residents To Stay Cool and be Safe!

June 26, 2012 Tagged with:

Enjoy the outdoors this summer – just stay cool and be safe! Officials offer summer outdoor safety tips to help you and your family have a safe and healthy summer. “Summer is in full swing with the Fourth of July… [Read More]

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Much at stake in Illinois and beyond with Pending ‘Obamacare’ Ruling

June 20, 2012 Tagged with:

After a decade-long battle to contain his HIV, Chicago graphic designer Will Wilson views President Barack Obama’s landmark health-care law as a “big ray of hope” that could be lost if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the president’s massive… [Read More]

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A Word to Preckwinkle’s Choices

June 20, 2012 Tagged with: , , ,

In 2008, when we first met Warren Batts, he had just signed on to lead a new panel that oversees Cook County’s health and hospitals system. Batts, a Navy veteran and retired business exec, didn’t sugarcoat the challenge ahead. “The… [Read More]

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‘Boss’ wrapping up 2nd season

June 19, 2012

A CTOR Kelsey (“Frasier”) Grammer’s filming of his hit Chicago-based series “Boss,” in which he plays the role of Tom Kane, a ruthless Chi-Town mayor, will wrap up shooting for its second season July 10. Actor /directorMario Van Peebles (“New Jack City”), who directed a… [Read More]

Construction of the Rauner Family YMCA in Little Village was made possible with help from the Rauner family's foundation. Photo by: Stephen J. Serio

Public health system courts Rauner to fund foundation

June 18, 2012 Tagged with: , ,

The Cook County hospital system is wooing investor Bruce Rauner for a gift of more than $10 million, as the cash-strapped public health care network tries to enter the crowded field of charitable causes. A major gift would jump-start fundraising… [Read More]

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On the front lines of city’s violence

June 17, 2012 Tagged with: ,

By the time paramedics wheeled Daniel Dilce into Stroger Hospital’s busy trauma unit early Sunday, there was little doctors could do to save his life. Blood leaked from the 35-year-old’s wounds and radiated across the white sheets beneath him as… [Read More]

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Governor Quinn Signs Law to Save Medicaid

June 14, 2012

Governor Pat Quinn today signed into law a package of reforms that will rescue the state’s Medicaid system from the brink of collapse and make the program sustainable for the future, one of his top priorities this legislative session. The… [Read More]