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NCH Achieves Healthgrades 2021 Patient Safety Excellence Award   NCH in the top 10% in the nation for patient safety Submitted by AJ Steinbruecker   Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) announced today that it has been recognized as a Healthgrades 2021 Patient Safety Excellence AwardTM recipient. This distinction places NCH among the top 10% of all short-term acute care hospitals reporting patient safety data as evaluated by Healthgrades, the leading marketplace connecting patients and providers. NCH was recognized as one of America's 100 Best Hospitals in 2021. NCH was also recog...

NCH nationally recognized with an 'A' for the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade   Updated 4/30/2021 5:04 PM Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) received an "A" grade in the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing NCH's achievements protecting patients from errors, injuries, accidents and infections. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade assigns an "A," "B," "C," "D," or "F" grade to all general hospitals across the country a...

What suburbs are doing about summer festivals -- and what the experts say Elk Grove Village is planning to have outdoor events with no requirements for masks, social distancing or crowd capacity starting with Rotary Fest on June 16. Daily Herald file photo, 2000   Patrons lined up for barbecue during Ribfest in Naperville two years ago. This year's event will be in Romeoville, and social distancing will be a top priority. Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer   Pictured here is Ribfest in Naperville two years ago. This year's event will be in Romeoville, and social distancing...

Updated 4/6/2021 6:49 PM COVID-19 hospitalizations in Illinois continue to climb, hitting a level Tuesday the state hasn't seen since mid-February with more than 1,600 patients. However, suburban doctors are quick to note the new patients they're seeing these days are less likely to die from the virus and are recovering at a much faster pace than those sickened by the respiratory disease in the past.   "What we have now is a vaccine-preventable disease, and we're seeing that in the patients coming in," said Dr. Jonathan Pinsky, medical director of infection control and prevention at Edward H...

Early COVID patients recall lonely year Jake Griffin Daily Herald FacebookTwitterEmail PALATINE (AP) — As it turns out, there are no perks to being first in a pandemic. “That’s the wrong lottery to win,” Bob Dix said. It’s been a full year since Dix arrived at the Northwest Community Hospital emergency room in Arlington Heights with a 103-degree temperature that wouldn’t break, confounding doctors who had ruled out the flu, bronchitis and other respiratory ailments. A few days after that hospital admission, he would be diagnosed as the suburbs’ first case of COVID-19. His wife, ...