Getting sick is hard enough — but the medical bills that follow can be just as painful. Which is why years ago, Cook County ...

Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office said it told the Cook County Health Foundation it “would not be seeking further ...

Cook County Health has created a new role to lead clinical care through the public health care system, naming Dr. Daniel McCormick as executive chief clinical officer. The health system also named Dr.

The Cook County Board affirmed a search committee ... subject to approval by the health system’s board. There was far more board strife over the choice to lead the County Board’s Health ...

Dr. Erik Mikaitis has been nominated to become the next chief executive officer of Cook County’s vast public health system. Mikaitis, 46, has been interim CEO at Cook County Health for almost a ...

White/Chicago Sun-Times Share Sweeping changes that would give Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and county commissioners more oversight and power over the county’s health system are ...

Leaders of Cook County’s health system on Wednesday sought to downplay a blistering report that alleges their Medicaid health insurance business called CountyCare owes vendors, including medical ...

Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The Cook County Health & Hospitals System's financial well-being next year relies heavily on money flowing from its CountyCare health plan ...

However, the attention to Dr. Shannon’s severance spurred two Cook County board commissioners to reexamine the health system’s severance policy in light of a new state law that limits all ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has helped bolster Chicago-based Cook County Health and Hospital System’s finances, according to the Chicago Tribune. For the first time ...

Mikaitis has been nominated to become the next chief executive officer of Cook County’s public health system. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Dr. Erik Mikaitis has been nominated to become the next ...