Medical News

Two recently opened rooms overlooking Springfield Clinic’s main campus hold the promise of shorter waits for patients who need the blood vessels feeding their hearts examined or treated for potentially life-threatening blockages. Two miles away, a new Urgent Care Plus, scheduled to open in January near Springfield’s two acute-care hospitals, is designed to serve many […]

Hospital Sisters Health System has named Dean Kroll HSHS System vice president of facilities, effective Oct. 13. Kroll is currently the HSHS System director of project design and construction and has been serving as interim chief facilities officer since July. In this new role, Kroll is responsible for all HSHS facilities in Illinois and Wisconsin, […]

A consumer advocacy group continued its push this month to drum up support for legislation to establish a state board to regulate the price of many prescription drugs in Illinois. Citizen Action/Illinois, along with other groups, convened a town hall meeting in Rockford Oct. 8 – the fifth in a series of such meetings the […]

Jeff Sterling has been named HSHS system vice president of managed care, effective Sept. 3, to join the executive leadership team and oversee all aspects of managed care services. “We are pleased to have Jeff join our organization,” said Damond Boatwright, HSHS president and CEO. “His deep understanding of both the health care and payor perspectives […]

Prairie Cardiovascular and HSHS St. John’s Hospital recently added a new technology to help treat atrial fibrillation (AFib). The FARAPULSE™ Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System is a unique alternative to thermal ablation, the traditional treatment for Afib. In a typical ablation procedure, a catheter is placed inside the heart and generates extreme temperatures – hot […]

Jeff Sterling has been named HSHS system vice president of managed care, effective Sept. 3, to join the executive leadership team and oversee all aspects of managed care services. “We are pleased to have Jeff join our organization,” said Damond Boatwright, HSHS president and CEO. “His deep understanding of both the health care and payor perspectives […]

The Alliance for Women in Medicine and Science will host the Colors of Health Fashion Show and Community Engagement Awards on Friday, Sept. 6, at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 S. Sixth St., Springfield.  This annual event celebrates the vibrant intersection of community engagement and health through fashion. The evening will begin with […]

Hannah Jacobs, a licensed clinical social worker at SIU Center for Family Medicine, has been named the 2024 Social Worker of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers, Illinois Chapter. Jacobs has worked at the SIU Center for Family Medicine, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) serving medically and socially complex patients, for […]

HSHS St. John’s Children’s Hospital is encouraging people of any age or ability to participate in the Little Miracles 5K Walk/Run. All proceeds from this event will go towards the ongoing needs of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. John’s. “The Little Miracles 5K offers an opportunity for friends, families and colleagues to […]

Free training on trauma-informed care is available for people who work in community-based organizations, health care or education settings or who work closely with people in vulnerable populations. The training will be offered both virtually and in-person thanks to a partnership between Memorial Health, S. Consulting LLC and Heritage Behavioral Health.  In Sangamon County, there […]