Cook County Health First in Illinois to Launch Virtual Patient Advocate Aimed to Improve Infant Mortality and Healthy Pregnancy Rates in At-Risk Populations
September 2, 2020
Despite decades of research and recommendations, health disparities in birth outcomes persist for African American women who are more than two times as likely to deliver a low-birth weight infant…
Cook County Health Participating in Clinical Trial of Monoclonal Antibodies for the Prevention of COVID-19
September 1, 2020
Cook County Health is evaluating a potential experimental antibody therapy for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection among household members of those with diagnosed COVID-19 as part of a clinical trial…
Cook County Health Releases FY2021 Preliminary Budget
August 28, 2020
Charity Care Budgeted at $312M, South Side Services Strengthened Cook County Health (CCH) interim CEO, Debra D. Carey, submitted the health system’s preliminary Fiscal Year 2021 (FY2021) budget to the…
Cook County Health Patients Experience Major Delays in Mail Deliveries for Daily Medical Prescriptions
August 24, 2020
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, U.S. Congressmen Bobby Rush and Sean Casten, and Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer Discuss the Impact U.S. Postal Service Delays…
Cook County Health’s John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital Named High Performing Hospital in Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by U.S. News & World Report
July 28, 2020
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County Health was recognized by the 2020-2021 annual U.S. News & World Report survey as a high-performing hospital for Heart Failure and Chronic…
Cook County Health to Evaluate a Potential Antibody Treatment for COVID-19
July 16, 2020
Landmark Trial to Recruit Adults Who Recently Tested Positive for COVID-19 Cook County Health is one of only 24 hospitals in the U.S. to test the safety and efficacy of…
Cook County Health Begins Use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy to Treat COVID-19 Patients
June 24, 2020
Cook County Health has begun using blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to treat individuals who are currently seriously ill with the disease. While no drug treatment for COVID-19 has…
Chicago healthcare organizations band together to take action on systemic racism in healthcare
June 19, 2020
36 hospitals, health centers pledge to work to improve health equity across the city, focusing on vulnerable neighborhoods Calling systemic racism a public health crisis, three dozen Chicago healthcare organizations…
Cook County Health Simulation Center Testing Portable, Low-Cost Ventilator to Fight COVID-19
June 8, 2020
One of Only Two Medical Institutions in the U.S. to Test Ventilator Medical experts from the Simulation Center at Cook County Health have partnered with a world-renowned team of physicists…
Can the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine prevent disease progression in COVID-19 patients?
May 19, 2020
Cook County Health First in Illinois and One of Six in the U.S. to Investigate Hydroxychloroquine in Conjunction with and without Azithromycin in Non-Hospitalized Patients Cook County Health is one…