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Local
6 days ago
SIU School of Medicine developing AI medical training

Lab builds digital avatars for students to practice difficult patient conversations.

Local
6 days ago
Home care industry lauds new law

The difference between licensed and unlicensed home care providers would be clearer.

Local
1 week ago
Springfield could have a place for you to rehab

Also: a suite hotel could become apartments.

Memorial Health
Local
1 week ago
Memorial Health to close one of its Springfield facilities

“We are working with each of the residents and their families to create transition plans, including placements at other facilities if appropriate,” said the statement.

Tim Rice, an Illinois Department of Children and Family Services retiree who receives cancer treatment at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, worries about his future care after BJC HealthCare announced it will drop his Aetna Medicare Advantage plan in 2027. (Olivia Luesing for Southern Illinois Source)
IL State News
2 weeks ago
Healthcare dispute strikes fear, confusion among southern Illinois retirees

BJC HealthCare announcement it will drop some Aetna plans jeopardizes coverage for some 5,000 retirees.

Local
2 weeks ago
Mental health board to field input, ideas

Board schedules two study sessions a month.

Pope Leo
Local
3 weeks ago
The type of lung cancer the Pope had can be treated here in Springfield

the awareness to the health of your lungs is necessary

An artist's rendering of remodeling for the Sangamon Co. Health Department.
Local
3 weeks ago
Ground ceremonially broken on $16M Sangamon County building remodel/expansion

The expansion will allow for more services and a better workflow.

U of I
Local
3 weeks ago
Nobel Prize-winning technology being studied at University of Illinois

“Optogenetics is a light switch for a cell,” said Kai Zhang, a professor in the U of I’s biochemistry department.