Ben Somerville
In just one year, state and federal fines against the four nursing homes in Champaign County nearly tripled from $117,401 to $334,015, according to…
Kaniz Fatema
In a landmark decision in 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution does not confer a right to an abortion. Since then,…
Maidely Davila
Ambulance services in Champaign and Urbana have frequently failed to meet response time standards over the past year, a review of ambulance call data…
Katie Dalton
At least 128 underage University of Illinois students were so inebriated that their friends had to call 911 for emergency medical attention last fall.…
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Since she was 5 years old, Champaign resident Jamilah Barbee and her family have relied on Medicaid to cover hospital visits at Carle Foundation…
Champaign County has directed over $700,000 in funds over the past two years from national opioid settlements to housing, health and safety supplies, medical…
Darrell Hoemann
Lessie Ann Patterson lived in Monticello, Illinois, for 25 years before dying in 2015 from glioblastoma, a rapidly advancing brain cancer with an average…
In January, a resident staying at a nursing home in Urbana fell from her recliner while reaching for her glasses. Several days later, she…
Darrell Hoemann
This past February at a Monticello City Council meeting, resident Caitlin McClain spoke about her father-in-law who died of brain cancer in 2022. “My…
Farrah Anderson
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District and local group Advocates for Aging Care have launched a survey to help identify the state of senior services…