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The Peoria County Sheriff’s Office is getting 45 new automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, thanks to a grant of nearly $53,000 from the Gary Sinise Foundation.
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Peoria Heights recently became the first municipality in Peoria County to enact a ban on the sale of kratom, while the Tremont village board is scheduled to act on its own prohibition Monday night.
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The high-tech simulator recreates emergency delivery and postpartum scenarios for OSF's mobile unit serving Central Illinois maternal care deserts.
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With requests from hospitals exceeding the available blood supply, the American Red Cross is urging people to give blood so patients don’t face delays in receiving care.
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Health care providers and educators worry a $100,000 lifetime limit on borrowing for graduate nursing programs, wrapped in the fine print of the Big, Beautiful Bill, could put a wrench in the workforce pipeline.
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Illinois American Water is again notifying customers that test samples from some homes and businesses in the Peoria District water system show elevated levels of lead.
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Health care systems nationwide are bracing for how the Trump administration's price increase to a visa program used to hire skilled foreign workers will negatively affect their ability hire clinicians. OSF HealthCare is among several Bloomington-Normal employers who hire H-1B visa holders.
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For nearly 30 years, Eric “Coach E” Ewald has shaped Lincoln basketball from the background — building confidence, refining an offense and quietly making players better people. Now, the longtime Railers assistant is stepping into the spotlight as an inductee of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
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OSF, a Catholic health care system based in Peoria, said in a statement it was “saddened” to hear the governor signed the bill into law. Health care providers are not required to participate.
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The Peoria County Board of Health on Monday approved new vaccination policy costs and an updated fee schedule for birth and death certificates.
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Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood is calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to veto a bill that would allow terminally ill individuals to get a prescription to end their life.
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Since beginning his practice in 1988, James McGee has focused on clinical care and early detection of cancer throughout Central Illinois. His clinical area of focus is radiation oncology.