Durbin, Duckworth Announce $18.9 Million For Health Care Providers In Illinois | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois

06.01.22

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) at this time introduced $18.9 million in U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) grants. The funding will go to fifteen suppliers all through Illinois to spend money on groundbreaking analysis, improved care, and efforts to scale back tobacco use. 

“Illinois is residence to world-class well being care suppliers and biomedical analysis establishments. If we hope to increase our understanding of ailments, higher deal with sufferers, and develop new cures and coverings for households in want, our federal authorities should make sensible investments within the suppliers and establishments that assist advance the general public well being. Right now’s introduced help from the federal authorities will go a good distance towards bettering well being outcomes for households throughout Illinois,” Durbin stated.

“By serving to enhance biomedical analysis, we may help ship actual public well being outcomes for Illinois households,” Duckworth stated. “I’ll maintain working with Senator Durbin to verify organizations and researchers have the federal help they should enhance analysis, present accessible care and assist save lives.”

Recipients of HHS grants embrace:

• Northwestern College (Evanston): $1,491,607
• Shirley Ryan Means Lab (Chicago): $471,140
• Opticent, Inc. (Evanston): $705,941
• College of Chicago (Chicago): $1,170,685
• Lurie Youngsters’s Hospital of Chicago (Chicago): $583,892
• College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign): $892,927
• VNA Well being Care (Aurora): $1,726,294
• Alivio Medical Heart, Inc. (Chicago): $1,000,892
• Heartland Worldwide Well being Facilities: $1,130,076
• Erie Household Well being Heart, Inc. (Chicago): $1,981,677
• Aunt Martha’s Well being And Wellness, Inc.: $2,982,275
• Rush College Medical Heart (Chicago): $965,906
• Illinois Division of Public Well being: $2,241,976
• Illinois Main Well being Care Affiliation (Springfield): $1,521,337
• College of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago): $83,030

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