UnityPoint Health - Central Illinois

A dedication ceremony Monday marked the integration of the former UnityPoint Health – Central Illinois network into the Carle Health system.

A possible merger between UnityPoint Health and New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services won't impact a deal to bring UnityPoint's central Illinois hospitals under the Carle Health umbrella.

Na'Allah said the disparities are even starker when looking at outcomes among women of color and in rural communities. For her, America's health care system is one of the prime culprits.

About one in five people who contract COVID-19 suffer from new or lingering symptoms of the virus weeks or even months after their initial infection. It's a condition the medical community now calls "long COVID."

Behavioral health co-responders will be working with law enforcement in four Illinois cities by the end of this year.

The month of April usually marks the end of flu season. But this year, it's springing back at an unusual time.

The healthcare organization plans to convert the 16-acre property at 2223 W. Heading Ave. into the Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Center.

UnityPoint will pay between $8 to 10 million for the West Peoria facility, depending on the amount of state and federal funding they can secure. That's far less than the $42 million in bonds issued to pay for its construction.

UnityPoint Health is temporarily suspending elective procedures as COVID patients tax hospital capacity to its limits.

The hospital systems serving the Tri-County are battling a massive COVID-19 surge as active cases in the region topped 5,000 this week for the first time in more than a year, with more than 1,800 new infections reported from Tuesday to Thursday.