Security, morale are companies’ focus
Like many employees who went back to their jobs Wednesday in downtown Chicago, Judy Gombosi found work greatly changed. Security officers greeted Gombosi in the lobby of the 36-story building...
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Blood donors line up to help out
People searching for a way to help the victims of the devastation in New York and Washington poured into Chicago area hospitals and blood banks on Tuesday, stretching the region's...
Coalition launches campaign for health-care tax credits
A coalition of health-care companies has kicked off a multimillion-dollar campaign in support of individual tax credits as the best way to reduce the number of uninsured Americans. The Washington-based...
Upgrade opposed for St. James’ Olympia Fields hospital
A Catholic health-care firm's plan to upgrade a hospital in an affluent suburb is running into resistance from critics who fear that its sister facility in a poor community nearby...
Wisconsin insurer could fit into Illinois Blue Cross plans
Although Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois last week pulled the plug on a deal to link with four Blues plans in the far Northwest, the Chicago-based health insurer...
Illinois’ efforts at Medicaid reimbursement go begging
Illinois taxpayers pay more than $60 million in drug bills every year because of the way the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor tries to recoup money it is...
Law may help prevent mismanagement by HMOs, insurers
It may be too late for doctors, hospitals and consumers who did business with American Health Care Providers Inc., but a new law may prevent the kind of mismanagement regulators...
Grant, Edgewater hospitals consider sale after fraud probe
Under new management, two hospitals on Chicago's North Side are looking at a possible sale of the properties as long as they are kept as health-care facilities. The action comes...
BUSINESS: Investors: Show me the stem cell money
Big Pharma isn't yet convinced there will be a profit bonanza from stem cell therapy. If there will ever be blockbuster drugs from stem cell research--or cell therapies of any...
Mercy Hospital converts convent into cardiac rehab hub
The Sisters of Mercy are praying that a former convent atop their South Side hospital and a talented cardiologist will help pull their financially troubled facility into the black by...