Couple on mission to gift books to neonatal intensive care units
Parents can connect with premature babies through reading
and last updated 2020-12-10 14:13:40-05
CHICAGO, Ill. â Earlier this month, the March of Dimes reported that the pre-term birthrate in the U.S. increased by more than 10% for the fifth year in a row.
For parents of premature babies, itâs an emotional journey filled with anxiety and helplessness.
Two years ago, little Bryce Harshfield came into the world.
âHe is a miracle baby,â said his mother Dana Harshfield.
Born at 24-weeks, Bryce weighed just 1 pound 5 ounces.
âHe was so tiny and, you know, in those first initial days, they have to prepare you for the worst,â she said.
Doctors in Chicago's largest hospitals are pushing to make sure the city's smaller hospitals have the resources they need to adequately care for COVID-19 patients.
Truth Be Told,” but stars
Octavia Spencer and
Kate Hudson weren’t told the truth. Only after he’d been fired did they learn that
Lucas Furst, the doctor who had been on-set to test them and other actors, producers and crew for Covid-19, wasn’t licensed to practice medicine in California. The show’s producers didn’t tell anyone that Furst was a former sushi salesman.
Endeavor Content, the unit of the famed William Morris Endeavor talent agency that produces “Truth Be Told,” contracted with Furst’s Los Angeles firm in September to provide health care professionals on set to test for Covid-19. The company’s staff tested everyone for two months, some on a daily basis.
Pritzker fighting to keep political hiring reports under wraps
Pritzker fighting to keep political hiring reports under wraps The lawyers who over 50 years ago started the fight against political patronage in Springfield and Chicago are arguing Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration is not ready to lose federal oversight of hiring. Efforts to hide hiring records prove that point, they said.
Gov. J.B. Prizker is in federal court asking to be relieved of federal oversight on hiring, but the attorneys who started the fight against political patronage in 1969 are saying Pritzker’s effort to block access to hiring reports proves it’s too soon to retire the watchdog.