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OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington needs a new president. Current president Lynn Fulton is leaving in December to become CEO of the Maui Health System in Hawaii.
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The Community Health Care Clinic in Normal is now marking its 30th anniversary. The mission is the same as on opening day even as they’ve greatly expanded in size and scope of services provided.
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The author and activist Bell Hooks once wrote “rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” The story of a Bloomington-Normal woman's effort to get lifesaving heart surgery is an example of just that.
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Wherever humans gather, there is garbage. And getting rid of it is a challenge. The start of trash removal in Bloomington dates to the start of the 20th century and to a man known in his day as the King of Swedes.
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Wherever humans gather, there is garbage. And getting rid of it is a challenge. The start of trash removal in Bloomington dates to the start of the 20th century and to a man known in his day as the King of Swedes.
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Experts in rural health care say significant, systemic changes are needed across a litany of issues — public and private insurance reimbursement rates, malpractice rates and staffing among them — for rural hospitals to survive.
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The Illinois Senate has passed a bill creating the civil offense of fertility fraud, which happens when a health provider knowingly uses their own sperm or eggs in a fertility treatment without the knowledge or consent of the patient.
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OSF HealthCare and Illinois State University have announced a new partnership that leaders say will improve access to healthcare, meet social needs and boost economic development.
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Curt Richardson of Normal found out as an adult that a fertility doctor had defrauded his parents decades earlier. Now, he's working to pass laws to "take some of that power back for victims."
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A recent study that tied the use of gas stoves in homes to rates of childhood asthma — especially in Illinois — inadvertently brought gas stoves to the forefront of the culture wars.