Every year, Illinois prisons incarcerate about 30,000 people at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion. Nearly half of those people have a history of mental illness.
“There were so many points along that mother's journey where that could have been caught and treated,” Amanda Wilkinson says.
Illinois mental health courts are showing mixed results as they work to divert people with mental illness and addiction from the criminal justice system into treatment, according to a joint…
Data breaches were disclosed by Southern Illinois Dermatology, Saint Anthony Hospital, and North Texas Behavioral Health Authority. The post Data Breaches at Healthcare Organizations in Illinois and Texas Affect 600,000 appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been indexed from... Read more
Physician and public health professional Dr. Kemia Sarraf (“Dr. K”) with no regret shares with the world her experience with impostor syndrome through a video noting Women’s History Month in March. Sarraf, CEO of the trauma-responsive coaching and consulting business Lodestar, shares her life’s miss
Kimberly Miller-Griffin reimagines mental health care and brings back community legacy in Bronzeville. The post ‘This Is Where I Belong’ appeared first on South Side Weekly .
A grassroots campaign that united patients and providers succeeded in expanding mental health care access. Here’s how.
President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to cut more than $100 million in federal health care grants for Illinois, a step that was quickly met with a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Kwame Raoul and his peers in three other...
In a first wave of cuts, at least $29 million in Illinois grants are on the chopping block, including city, state and other health centers' HIV prevention programs, according to a list of grants obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Medicaid resources for the behavioral health conditions of jail inmates could be available up to 90 days prior to their release date.
From delayed hospital trips to limited nutrition, former detainees describe gaps in pregnancy care inside Illinois county jails.
Innovative value-based care arrangement specifically targets complex challenges facing Medicaid beneficiaries in 17 Illinois counties BROOKLYN, N.Y. and CHICAGO, Jan. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cityblock Health and Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, Inc. ("Meridian") today announced a...
Wayspring, an organization dedicated to advancing care for substance use disorder, and Aetna Better Health of Illinois have partnered to deliver a new model of recovery care for Illinois Medicaid…
