Public Health

Advocate Trinity Hospital (Chicago).  In 2010, Advocate Trinity Hospital formed a Green Council to adopt and reach environmentally sustainable benchmarks. The hospital’s commitment to sustainability was honored by Practice Greenhealth, which named Advocate Trinity Hospital one of its 2017 Greening the…

Lisa M. Radtke. Chief Administrative Officer of Winneshiek Medical Center (Decorah, Iowa). Ms. Radtke is the chief administrative officer of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Health System’s Winneshiek Medical Center and regional administrator for human resources for the Southwest Wisconsin Region. She spent…

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (Chicago). In 2015, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center opened its $100 million Center for Advanced Care in Chicago, which gained LEED Silver certification in 2016. The building has a 21,000-square-foot park behind it and its roof is…

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital (Barrington, Ill.). Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital cut energy use intensity by approximately 37 percent since 2008 and curbed water consumption by 500,000 gallons in 2016. The hospital accepted several prestigious honors in 2017, including Practice Greenhealth’s…

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (Downers Grove, Ill.). Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital leads the Advocate Health system in purchasing Healthier Hospitals-compliant furniture, with 75 percent of furniture being void of target chemicals, excluding beds and mattresses. In 2017, the hospital earned Practice Greenhealth’s…

Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn, Ill.). Advocate Christ Medical Center achieved LEED Gold certification for two projects in the past two years: a nine-story outpatient facility in 2015 and its eight-story East Tower in 2017. The hospital was honored for its…

While emergency department discharges after opioid-related admissions have decreased since 2010, discharges pertaining to heroin use have surged since 2008, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

A mass shooting Sunday night on the Las Vegas strip left more than 50 people dead and hundreds of others injured, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

CMS is offering special enrollment periods for Medicare beneficiaries and others affected by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

The U.S. Navy will send the USNS Comfort, its hospital ship, to aid relief efforts in Puerto Rico a week after Hurricane Maria clobbered the island, according to CNN.