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A public hospital in Chicago, Illinois, part of the Cook County Health and Hospital System. It is a teaching hospital with a history of medical innovations and a former blood bank, and was renamed in 2001 for John Stroger Jr.
Learn about the government, history, and politics of Cook County, the most populous county in Illinois and home to Chicago. Find out how the county is governed by a board of commissioners, an elected president, and various departments and agencies.
MWRDGC stands for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, a special-purpose district that operates in Cook County, Illinois. It is responsible for treating wastewater and preventing floods in the Chicago area, and has a history of reversing the flow of the Chicago River and building the Deep Tunnel project.
A recent data breach at a medical transcription firm contracted by Cook County Health exposed the personal information of more than 1.2 million CCH patients, the health system said Friday. The ...
Israel Rocha, CEO of Cook County Health, is leaving the health system Dec. 1 “to pursue a new professional opportunity,” a CCH spokesperson announced Friday. “Serving as Cook County Health ...
Anyone who was at the Cook County Health Professional Building between 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Thursday or at Stroger Hospital between noon and midnight Feb. 27 should contact the Chicago health ...
Provident Hospital was the first African-American-run hospital in the US, founded in 1891 by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. It faced many challenges, such as segregation, financial difficulties, and affiliation with the University of Chicago, before reopening in 1993 as a public hospital.
Long-held plans to expand the power of the nonprofit entity established to raise money for Cook County’s public health arm have been scrapped “amid questions about its scope and ...