Lisa Schencker
Healthcare Reporter at Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune health care business reporter [email protected], 312-383-8547
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3 days ago |
bnd.com | Lisa Schencker
Advocate Health Care may proceed with a plan to replace Advocate Trinity Hospital with a new, much smaller hospital on the South Side of Chicago, state regulators decided Tuesday, after more than a dozen community members and leaders spoke out in support of the project.
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3 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Lisa Schencker
Advocate Health Care may proceed with a plan to replace Advocate Trinity Hospital with a new, much smaller hospital on the South Side of Chicago, state regulators decided Tuesday, after more than a dozen community members and leaders spoke out in support of the project.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Lisa Schencker
A Chicago birth center is abruptly closing for the rest of the summer because of staffing challenges — forcing patients to make new plans. The Birth Center of Chicago, in the North Center neighborhood, told patients in recent days that it planned to temporarily suspend services, said Ariel Swift, director of outreach and education for the birth center’s parent company Birth Partners Inc.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Lisa Schencker
Bo Wheeler tried to remain stoic for his family. He kept calm when his wife’s water broke 28 weeks into her pregnancy and their twins, Max and Vivi, were delivered via emergency cesarean section, weighing less than 2.5 pounds each. He worked to stay positive during the four months that followed, even as his son struggled in the neonatal intensive care unit with seizures, a brain bleed and his breathing. “It was just terrifying,” said Wheeler, 45, of Schererville, Indiana.
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2 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Lisa Schencker
Much has been said and written over the years about controversial malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois’ Stateville Penitentiary starting in the 1940s.
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