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Last year, the Illinois Department of Public Health found over 90% of all deaths for those pregnant or within one year of pregnancy were potentially preventable from 2018 through 2020.

Leaders say new site was made possible by a 2021 change to state law.

State and community leaders on Monday celebrated the planned opening of a new freestanding birth center on Chicago’s South Side while emphasizing proposed maternal health spending increases in Gov. JB

Last year, the Illinois Department of Public Health found over 90% of all deaths for those pregnant or within one year of pregnancy were potentially preventable from 2018 through 2020.

Last year, the Illinois Department of Public Health found over 90% of all deaths for those pregnant or within one year of pregnancy were potentially preventable from 2018 through 2020.

My experience as a Black midwife has made it clear we need to do more to help Black birthing people and improve birth equity.

Leadership Greater Chicago recently announced the 2024 Class of its Signature Fellows Program, the greater Chicago areas premier civic leadership development program. These 45 accomplished and diverse individuals represent a cross-section of professionals from the corporate, nonprofit, government and education sectors.

Illinois is changing how it reports abortion data, being near green space could slow aging and more in today's Health Pulse.

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/PRNewswire/ -- In 2013, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation spun off BMe Community, an innovative Black leadership network. Since then, its members...