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The former NorthShore office of Dr. Fabio Ortega in Lincolnwood on Feb.13, 2024. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Endeavor Health settles final 23 pending cases involving former gynecologist Dr. Fabio Ortega, accused of sexually abusing patients

February 19, 2025 at 4:13 p.m.

Endeavor Health has settled the last batch of pending suits filed against it by patients who alleged abuse by Dr. Fabio Ortega.

More than 150 workers at Kindred Hospitals in Edgewater, Sycamore losing jobs as hospitals close

February 19, 2025 at 2:43 p.m.

The numbers include those who declined jobs at other Kindred facilities, a spokesperson said.

The 76-year-old woman sexually assaulted by nurse David Giurgiu in 2018 at Glenbrook Hospital had been taken to the emergency department with a broken femur. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Medical misconduct: Read the investigation on sexual abuse by providers

February 19, 2025 at 4:12 p.m.

Over the course of a yearlong investigation, the Tribune found that well-known Illinois health systems have allowed workers accused of abusing patients to keep providing care.

Baxter International's headquarters in Deerfield. (Tim Boyle/Getty)

Baxter plant damaged by Hurricane Helene returns to regular production levels

February 18, 2025 at 11:20 a.m.

Baxter International plant damaged by Hurricane Helene back up to full production levels.

Heartland Alliance Health, at 4009 North Broadway, on Feb. 12, 2025. The organization will be closing its two clinics in Englewood and Uptown on Feb. 26. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Heartland Alliance Health shutting down, closing Englewood, Uptown clinics

February 12, 2025 at 4:47 p.m.

Employees have been told that the two clinics will close Feb. 26, and the organization's three food pantry locations will close Feb. 22.

A Walgreens employee talks with a person in line for COVID-19 testing in Dallas, April 25, 2020. (Tony Gutierrez/AP)

Walgreens must pay $987 million arbitration award to virtual care company, judge rules

February 11, 2025 at 1:13 p.m.

Deerfield-based Walgreen Co., must pay a $987 million arbitration award to Everly Health, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul at a news conference in Chicago on Jan. 28, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Illinois and 21 other states file lawsuit challenging ‘devastating’ cuts to federal health research funding

February 10, 2025 at 3:24 p.m.

The lawsuit follows a notice issued by the National Institutes of Health on Friday that it would limit federal payments for the indirect costs of grant-funded research to 15%.

Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood in 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Lurie Children’s Hospital suspends gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19, following executive order

February 10, 2025 at 12:14 p.m.

The action at Lurie comes more than a week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order taking aim at gender-affirming care – including medications to delay puberty, hormone therapy...

President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Jan. 29, 2025. The Trump administration has ordered agencies to shut down programs, grants and other initiatives that “promote or reflect gender ideology,” and that employees who work on them be placed on administrative leave, in the latest action to execute the president’s charge to root out “woke” ideology from the federal government. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Illinois mother says her teenager’s chest surgery was canceled after Trump executive order on gender-affirming care

February 6, 2025 at 7:25 a.m.

Trump's executive order ignited confusion among hospitals and other providers of gender affirming care across the country, with some hospitals and clinics in other states abruptly halting such care.

People line up outside Howard Brown Health on East 55th Street at Lake Park Avenue in Chicago to be tested for the COVID-19 virus on Dec. 22, 2021. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Howard Brown announces new CEO, during time of challenges for transgender patients under Trump

February 4, 2025 at 2:56 p.m.

Gayles, most recently chief health officer at Hazel Health, also has been a public health official in Maryland and the District of Columbia.

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