Several diseases on the rise in Champaign County as federal changes threaten prevention-based programs
Whooping cough, rabies, syphilis and strep. These are some of the infectious diseases on the rise in Champaign County over the past six years,…
Darrell Hoemann
A view looking north on Independence Street, just south of Marion St. in Monticello, IL on Friday, June 14, 2024. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access
Illinois cancer registry to reexamine multiple cases of glioblastoma reported in Piatt County
The Illinois Department of Public Health has reasserted Piatt County has been added to the list of sites that its cancer registry examines each…
Darrell Hoemann
A view looking north on Independence Street, just south of Marion St. in Monticello, IL on Friday, June 14, 2024. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access
Concerns about brain cancer cases in Piatt County grow, but Illinois public health agency yet to investigate
Lessie Ann Patterson lived in Monticello, Illinois, for 25 years before dying in 2015 from glioblastoma, a rapidly advancing brain cancer with an average…
Darrell Hoemann
Brookens Admin Center in Urbana, IL 61801 on Wednesday, December 15, 2021. Photo by Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess
Champaign County Mental Health Board grants surge as 38 programs funded this year
After some difficult years, the Champaign County Mental Health Board is seeing a surge in the ability to provide services for children, families, the…
McKinley Health Center website
McKinley Health Center on the University of Illinois campus.
Respiratory illnesses spiked early at McKinley, University of Illinois campus this fall
This fall, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign experienced an earlier-than-usual rise in respiratory illness cases, according to Awais Vaid, medical director at McKinley…
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The entrance to Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park. File photo.
Shadow Wood and mobile home parks still lack emergency weather alerts in Spanish
Spanish-speaking Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park residents cannot receive weather alerts about tornados or severe storms because there are no Spanish-language services in Champaign.…
Darrell Hoemann
Satellite Jail exterior on Wednesday, December 15, 2021. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access
Central Illinois county jails continue to lack respiratory illness isolation cells, but Champaign jail renovations add two
Six of nine central Illinois county jails fail to meet state standards for a respiratory illness isolation cell, state records show. A review of…
-Clark-Lindsey Village (101 W Windsor Rd, Urbana) on Monday, April 6, 2020. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access
Champaign County nursing homes fined nearly $1 million federal fines, $500,000 in state fines in past three years
In January, a resident staying at a nursing home in Urbana fell from her recliner while reaching for her glasses. Several days later, she…
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
A bag of fentanyl pills. Image from the DEA website.
Fentanyl-driven overdose deaths dropped in Illinois after 2022 peak
Deaths from opioid overdoses in Illinois are on the decline in 2024, showing a reversal after the record-high numbers seen in 2022. Drug prevention…
CU-CitizenAccess.org
Bickford of Champaign at 1002 S. Staley Rd on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.
Kitchens reopen at Champaign assisted living facility seven weeks after failed health inspection
Kitchens at the assisted living facility Bickford of Champaign have reopened about seven weeks after receiving a red placard and failing its health inspection…
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