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…
NFL and the Players Coalition Makes $250,000 Contribution to Cook County Health Foundation to Fight COVID-1
April 22, 2020
NFL Investing in Care for Communities of Color Today, the National Football League and its Players Coalition announced a $250,000 donation to Cook County Health Foundation to support the work…
Provident Hospital Emergency Room to Reopen April 20
April 17, 2020
Emergency room services will resume at Provident Hospital at 7:00AM Monday, April 20, 2020. On April 3rd, Cook County Health announced the need to temporarily suspend emergency room services at…
Cook County Health Leads First Studies for COVID-19 Drug Treatment in Illinois
April 7, 2020
CHICAGO – Cook County Health is conducting some of the first clinical trials for a possible treatment for COVID-19. Cook County Health is one of only three medical centers in Chicago and one…