Sound Health

Twin Cities native Hilary Pacha started One Hope Project after her professional experiences in the nonprofit sector and her personal experiences seeking help for disordered eating.

OSF HealthCare has launched a remote patient monitoring program for people with RSV. It's similar to the model the hospital system leveraged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hospitals are facing a capacity crunch just in time for the holidays. That's due to respiratory viruses, but COVID-19 isn't the biggest driver of hospitalizations this winter. Instead, medical officials say an earlier-than-usual onset of RSV, coupled with an influenza wave, are packing emergency departments to capacity.

Too often, the conversation turns too quickly to whether an aging parent should move into a long-term care facility, said Susan Real, executive director of the Bloomington-based East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging.

Chestnut Health Systems and the McLean County Center for Human Services plan to coordinate care for their clients by placing staff at each other's facilities and sharing electronic medical records.

About 1 in 6 McLean County residents smokes. Public health administrators challenge smokers to try to kick the habit for at least one day.

RSV is not uncommon and health care authorities say most children will have gotten a cases of the virus before they're 2 years old, but a Bloomington-Normal pediatrician said the trend has been toward older children having more serious issues with the virus.

Diabetes is the seventh-leading cause of death in the U.S and one in three American adults has pre-diabetes. That's when your blood-sugar levels are higher than normal.

The first students in a peer support recovery program at Heartland Community College are sharing their experiences with mental health and substance abuse problems to help others.

It's a simple mission that guides the volunteers on the No One Dies Alone team at Carle BroMenn Medical Center.