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. Jay Shannon, who is CEO of Cook County Health, said steering more business to the county health system has been a goal since launching CountyCare in 2013. The health system already restricts ...

Cook County’s health care system faces an enormous and growing backlog of unpaid expenses that could become “too large to pay” without a massive infusion of new funding, according to a ...

Cook County unveiled the preliminary forecast on June 18 for the 2026 fiscal year, showing a projected gap of $211.4 million.

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- There is a new beautiful and bright mural in the Cook County Health System. Community leaders unveiled it Tuesday morning. It's called "Nurture." You can see it in person at the ...

Members of the Cook County Health & Hospital System board expressed confusion and unease about whether any of President Toni Preckwinkle's proposed changes in the balance of power between health ...

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 ...

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 ...

The candidates for Cook County Board president agree on one thing -- the county health system needs to be reformed. How the reform should take place is where they disagree. Democrat Toni ...

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 ...