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Woodridge parents welcome quadruplets at Advocate Good Samaritan
Jun 19, 2019 11:36 AM - Two Woodridge parents got to celebrate a busier Father's Day than usual with the arrival of quadruplets June 10. -
Itasca hotel eyed as future drug treatment facility
Jun 19, 2019 8:14 AM - A Chicago-based nonprofit group that provides treatment for substance use disorders and mental health conditions has announced plans for a new behavioral health complex in Itasca that would support families in DuPage and other collar counties. Haymarket Center wants to buy a Holiday Inn hotel on the west side of I-290 and Irving Park Road and convert it into a roughly 200-bed facility. -
Medicaid legislation generates optimism for reformJun 18, 2019 6:26 PM - Illinois lawmakers took several steps this legislative session to increase efficiencies in the state's Medicaid managed care system, which has been widely panned by high-volume providers since its inception in 2011. Legislation that was approved unanimously in both chambers now awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker's signature.
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Radford Green Makes Heartfelt Connections with Residents
Jun 18, 2019 7:35 AM - She helped guard the Bush family ranch as an aerospace control and warning systems surveillance technician after 911, but today Air Force veteran Tiffany Zapata is focused on residents at Radford Green on the Sedgebrook senior living campus in Lincolnshire. -
Allow sales or 'incur pain'? Suburbs weighing legal pot shop regulations
Jun 17, 2019 5:30 AM - Recreational use of marijuana is legal come Jan. 1, but suburban community leaders are weighing whether to allow pot sales in their towns. -
How Good Samaritan Hospital's new operating room opens surgical possibilities
Jun 17, 2019 6:23 AM - A new operating room at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital gives doctors more options when it comes to performing common heart procedures. -
Schaumburg Township sponsoring Abilities Expo June 21-23Jun 17, 2019 4:59 PM - Schaumburg Township Disability Services will serve as an organizational sponsor of the annual Abilities Expo on Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 23 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, 1551 N. Thoreau Drive in Schaumburg.
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Chambers of commerce largely staying silent on marijuana sales
Jun 17, 2019 5:30 AM - Suburban chambers of commerce are largely staying out of the debate over whether to allow or forbid recreational marijuana retailers in towns across the region. -
Constable: Teen advocates for others as she waits for new lungs
Jun 16, 2019 10:08 AM - Grateful Maddi Bertrand of Glen Ellyn will receive the Hope and Courage award Wednesday from Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital for her advocacy on behalf of sick children and people with cystic fibrosis. But what the 19-year-old really wants is a new set of lungs.
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AMITA Health offers state-of-the-art joint replacement
Jun 14, 2019 12:35 PM - AMITA Health's state-of-the-art Center for Advanced Joint Replacement in Hoffman Estates offers extraordinary technology including the Stryker MAKO robotic arm for joint replacement surgery.
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