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Department executive. Ngozi O. Ezike, MD [1], Director of Public Health. Website. dph .illinois .gov. The Illinois Department of Public Health ( IDPH) is the code department [2] [3] of the Illinois state government that prevents and controls disease and injury, regulates medical practitioners, and promotes sanitation. [4]
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services ( HFS ), formerly the Department of Public Aid, [1] is the code department [2] [3] of the Illinois state government that is responsible for providing healthcare coverage for adults and children who qualify for Medicaid, and for providing child support services to help ensure that ...
The Government of Illinois, under Illinois ' Constitution, has three branches of government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The State's executive branch is split into several statewide elected offices, with the Governor as chief executive and head of state, and has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions.
1977 (age 46–47) Education. University of Louisville ( BS) University of Oxford. University of Chicago ( JD, MD) Nirav Dinesh Shah (born 1977) is an American epidemiologist, economist and attorney. He worked as an economist and epidemiologist at the Cambodian Ministry of Health. Shah was appointed as the director of the Illinois Department of ...
Ezike, as director of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) from January 2019 to March 2022, was a highly visible member of Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker's administration during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System itself is composed of the 485-bed University of Illinois Hospital, outpatient diagnostic and specialty clinics, and two Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that serve as primary teaching facilities for the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Health Science Colleges.
getcovered .illinois .gov. Get Covered Illinois is the health insurance marketplace for the U.S. state of Illinois. The exchange enables people and small businesses to purchase health insurance at federally subsidized rates. Since its inception, over 388,179 Illinois consumers have gained health insurance coverage. [1]
SHIELD Illinois is the SHIELD Deployment Unit of the University of Illinois System charged with administering the covidSHIELD SARS-CoV-2 assay throughout the State of Illinois. SHIELD Illinois performed over 7.2 million SARS-CoV-2 assays during its initial program. This represents 12% of all SARS-CoV-2 tests in Illinois and more tests than 24 ...