Provident Hospital is opening a new Behavioral Health Clinic Triage and Stabilization Center next week.

Ascension St. Elizabeth in Chicago closed mid-February prior to Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare’s acquisition of it and eight other St.Louis-based Ascension hospitals in Illinois.

Waukegan, Ill.-based Vista Medical Center East has extended the six-week furlough of 69 non-medical employees amid ongoing financial challenges, the Chicago Tribune reported March 4. Vista East ...

The parties had negotiated a purchase price of $5 million for Ascension St. Elizabeth, the hospital Prime hopes to close. As of March 1, the other eight Ascension Illinois hospitals, four senior ...

The $375 million deal represents Prime’s entrance into Illinois, putting it among the area’s largest local hospital operators. In the process, the deal shrinks St. Louis-based Ascension’s ...

The transaction closed March 1 and involves more than half of Ascension's Illinois hospital network, along with several skilled nursing, home health and senior living facilities. Federal and state ...

There are a record number of patients in hospital with Norovirus in England. Data from NHS England showed 1,160 patients a day on average were in hospital with the vomiting bug last week ...