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Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as hospitals increasingly require employees to get flu shots, with some losing their jobs if they refusal.

Illinois health officials have kicked off a campaign to fight the spread of the deadly bacteria C-diff in hospitals and other health facilities.C-diff is the short name for Clostridium difficile. Some infected patients suffer mild diarrhea, but others can develop more severe condition and die.

A hospital that delivers more than a quarter of babies born in Chicago is entering an international program that aims to improve the health of both newborns and their mothers.

Chicago is served by six trauma centers sprinkled around the city and nearby suburbs – but none is on the city’s South Side. In our second installment of our series on trauma care in Chicago, we look at why adult Level I care centers were pulled from an entire swath of the city.  

In our first of three stories on trauma care in Chicago, we learn that Level I trauma centers are not spread equally across the city. Some Chicagoans claim this trauma center layout leaves their neighborhoods vulnerable.

The Illinois Department of Revenue announced Tuesday that three Illinois hospitals are in danger of losing their tax-exempt status.

A Southwest Side hospital with the Chicago area’s lowest newborn breastfeeding rate is trying to step up its game.