A new initiative declares that Chicago’s hospital-centric infrastructure must be shrunk and proposes that Illinois defund the safety net hospitals.

A number of hospitals in the Chicago area earned an “A” grade ranking in the latest safety report from health care watchdog group Leapfrog, with others dipping in their rankings and at least five ...

If the Rush nurses succeed, they will join more than 6,500 workers in the Chicago area represented by National Nurses United.

Chlorhexidine is supposed to be the stuff that stops trouble at the hospital door. Yet a new Northwestern University study ...

In the middle of May, when some 40 Chicagoans a day were dying of COVID-19, Norwegian American Hospital's 12-bed intensive care unit for the sickest patients was full. Some patients lingered in the ...

Severe flu season is sending many people to hospital emergency rooms across the country, including in the Chicago area. The U.S. is seeing its highest level of respiratory illness in two decades; and ...

Kendall Quinn was born at 12:02 a.m. at Ascension Saint Alexius Women and Children's Hospital, Hoffman Estates. Her parents are Tye and Ian Buckley, and she is 5 pounds, 5 ouncesand 20 inches long.