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Loretto Hospital's CEO Talks Medicaid
Chicago's safety-net hospitals are bracing for revenue hits as thousands of Illinoisans stand to lose Medicaid coverage. Hospitals that serve mostly low-income patients in areas with few other health care resources ...
Public Safety 'Wonder Woman' Uses Experience to Help Victims of Domestic Violence
Yvette Hunter, Public Safety Officer at Loretto Hospital uses her experience with domestic violence to help those needing support; see NBC 5 featured report .
Sleep Deprivation
Ben Leven, social worker at Loretto Hospital's Outpatient Mental Health clinic, discusses sleep deprivation.
It is undeniable: Racism is a public health crisis.
As members and leaders from many of Chicago’s healthcare organizations addressing the disproportionate black and brown mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic, we say without hesitation that Black Lives Matter. No person ...
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon
Barbara Shields Johnson, director of nursing at The Loretto Hospital in Chicago, explains why she believes it was important for her as a person of color to publicly receive the Covid-19 vaccine. “There’s a great need ...
1st Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines in Chicago administered at Loretto Hospital
CHICAGO (WLS) -- History was made in Chicago Tuesday after the first COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer in Chicago were administered at Loretto Hospital on the West Side. The hospital was chosen because of the care it has ...
The Latest: Kansas mayor resigns over mask mandate threats
KANSAS — A western Kansas mayor announced Tuesday that she is resigning, effective immediately, because of threats she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate. Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw said she ...
Coronavirus live updates: 'Breakthrough' home test gets OK from FDA; 1 in 6 who ...
USA TODAY is keeping track of the news surrounding COVID-19 as vaccines begin to roll out nationwide . Just this week, the US marked the stark milestone of more than 300,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. ...
Five Nurses, Doctors First to Get Vaccine in Chicago at West Side Hospital
Five nurses and doctors became the first people in Chicago to be vaccinated for the coronavirus Tuesday morning at a West Side hospital in the middle of a Chicago neighborhood ravaged by COVID-19. City officials chose ...