Advocate Aurora Health

Advocate Health Care's Baby Bistro provides free support and a community for new moms navigating motherhood.

Community members can donate new or gently used home goods and clothing at the Goodwill Illinois Operations Center in Romeoville on Saturday.

Advocate Aurora Health announced Wednesday it will combine with North Carolina-based Atrium Health creating a massive network with 67 hospitals.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kristy Jones’ work as a bedside nurse typically involved patients who were relatively stable. Now, her floor assists patients in need of oxygen and care as they battle COVID-19.

“It’s an amazing profession,” the Crystal Lake resident says. “I feel in love with it because I not only get to help patients on a day-to-day basis, but I am learning every day. I work for a really good organization and I feel supported.”

In the light of an FBI raid on a COVID testing company that had closed sites in McHenry and other counties, how can people tell if a testing site is legitimate?

The treatment was paused in December because hospitals did not have the kind of antibodies that are effective against the omicron variant

Northwestern Medicine hospitals in McHenry County are currently at 120% to 130% capacity, according to hospital officials. Up to half of the patients are there with COVID-19

Climbing numbers of children are hospitalized with COVID-19, Chicago area hospital officials said Thursday, urging parents to vaccinate their children in light of the omicron variant of COVID-19.

The record numbers include 71 patients at Condell in Libertyville, 62 at Sherman in Elgin, and 61 at Good Shepherd in Barrington

Hospitals in the Advocate Aurora Health system are seeing the highest number of COVID-19 patients at any point during the pandemic, hospital officials said Monday.

The first baby of 2022 came Jan. 2 at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington: Arthur Ronnie Rathie of Palatine.

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove on Friday had 33 COVID-19 inpatients, according to a spokeswoman.

“It was tough,” said the East Dundee woman who was hospitalized with COVID-19. “I kept saying to myself, ‘I got to get back to my kids. I got to walk.’”

Advocate Aurora Health is the latest area health care system to say it was impacted by a security breach at a third-party company that may have exposed patient names, Social Security numbers, medical details and other personal information.

Advocate Health Care and Aurora Health Care on Dec. 5 announced a merger to create Advocate Aurora Health, the 10th largest not-for-profit, integrated health care system in the United States