"I live on Social Security and I'm retired, so I don't have insurance, and things just add up and I don't go," the Elgin man said. Hernandez was one of 424 patients treated at a two-day clinic at Judson University's Lindner Fitness Center in Elgin coordinated by the Heal Elgin Project and Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps. The Elgin woman, who has diabetes, said she'd.
It had been more than a decade since Armando Hernandez had last seen a dentist. “I live on Social Security and I’m retired, so I don’t have insurance, and things
Health care industry leaders and government agencies are trying to tap into a variety of community resources in an attempt to help uninsured or underinsured suburban residents gain access to health care.
Updated 12/13/2020 8:27 AM
More than a third of the state s 171 short-term care and critical access hospitals have reported at least one week where 80% or more of the hospital s staffed inpatient adult beds were occupied.
The report tracks hospital occupancy and COVID-19 caseloads for 18 weeks between July 31 and Nov. 27. It tracks the number of staffed beds available, which in many cases is less than the total number of beds in the hospital. Some hospitals did not have complete figures for all 18 weeks.
Illinois public health officials monitor hospital occupancy regionally to determine if COVID-19 mitigation restrictions should be implemented. If hospital bed occupancy exceeds 80% in a region, that could trigger those restrictions on business operations and social gathering sizes.