Mercy Hospital

A state board rejected a plan Tuesday to close a Chicago hospital after pleas from the community to keep the doors open.

A state board rejected a plan Tuesday to close a Chicago hospital after pleas from the community to keep the doors open. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the latest details.

Mercy Hospital is in the St. Louis, Mo., area, which is in danger of running out of hospital rooms for its most critical patients.

Chicago’s oldest hospital announced Wednesday it will close next year after the state of Illinois failed to finance its merger with three other money-losing hospitals.

A former nurse at Mercy Hospital alleges she was fired after she expressed concerns that the hospital didn’t provide adequate protections for staff members treating coronavirus patients.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker delivers his daily coronavirus press briefing on March 30.

A quartet of hospitals on Chicago’s South Side are combining their assets to create a new hospital system, and their goal is to help patients live longer and healthier lives, as 60 percent of residents go to hospitals outside of the area. Patients are hoping that the news of the merger between Mercy, South Shore, Advocate Trinity and St. Bernard…

Following the most recent fallen officers’ funerals, emotions, especially for their families, are still raw. But there’s huge need now moving forward and that’s what a fundraiser–replete with bagpipes playing “Amazing Grace” Wednesday night was all about. Dick Johnson reports.

Two people were injured Saturday after a car rear-ended a CTA bus in Hyde Park on the South Side.

A misidentification at a Chicago hospital led to a family taking a man they thought was their loved one off life support – but that man wasn’t who they thought he was, a new lawsuit states.

A misidentification at a Chicago hospital led to a family taking a man they thought was their loved one off life support – but that man wasn’t who they thought he was, a new lawsuit states. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

Public health officials are investigating two cases of Legionnaires’ disease in patients who were possibly exposed to the bacteria while at Mercy Hospital.

Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability says it won’t release video or audio tapes of the November shooting at a hospital that left a police officer, doctor, pharmacy resident and the suspected shooter dead.

Following the most recent fallen officers’ funerals, emotions, especially for their families, are still raw. But there’s huge need now moving forward and that’s what a fundraiser–replete with bagpipes playing “Amazing Grace” Wednesday night was all about.

Brian Less said he knows his daughter forgave the man who killed her.

Chicago-area hospitals are reviewing safety precautions and lawmakers are looking at measures to increase security after last month’s shooting that left four people dead, including the shooter.

A Chicago doctor shot and killed by her ex-fiance in a tragic shooting at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center was laid to rest Friday.

Dr. Tamara O’Neal, who was killed in a shooting at Mercy Hospital earlier this month, was laid to rest Friday. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

Officer Samuel Jimenez, the young Chicago officer who ran toward danger to save innocent lives as gunfire erupted inside a Chicago hospital last week, was laid to rest one week after his tragic death.