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The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), formerly the Department of Public Aid, [1] is the code department [2] [3] of the Illinois state government that is responsible for providing healthcare coverage for adults and children who qualify for Medicaid, and for providing child support services to help ensure that Illinois children receive financial support from both parents.
Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care, founded in 1981, is one of the oldest and largest non-profit hospice and palliative care providers in Illinois.. With main offices at 1550 Bishop Court in Mt. Prospect and additional offices in Elgin and Urbana, [1] Rainbow serves patients in seven counties throughout Illinois: Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties.
General inpatient care is an intensive level of care which may be provided in a nursing home, a specially contracted hospice bed or unit in a hospital, or in a free-standing hospice unit. [65] General inpatient criterion is for patients who are experiencing severe symptoms which require daily interventions from the hospice team to manage. [60]
The first modern free-standing hospice in China opened in Shanghai in 1988. [73] The first hospice unit in Taiwan, where the term for hospice translates as "peaceful care", opened in 1990. [38] [74] The first free-standing hospice in Hong Kong, where the term for hospice translates as "well-ending service", opened in 1992. [38] [75]
The field of palliative care grew out of the hospice movement, which is commonly associated with Dame Cicely Saunders, who founded St. Christopher's Hospice for the terminally ill in 1967, [21] and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross who published her seminal work "On Death and Dying" in 1969.
The Alexander Briggs House is a historic house located at 210 Jackson St. in Charleston, Illinois. Prominent local stonemason Alexander Briggs built the stone house in 1894; it is the only stone house remaining in Coles County .
You Won't Ever Be Lonely" also had the sixth-longest chart run on the country charts in the 1990s decade, spending thirty-six weeks on the charts. [5] Following "She's More" was a non-album song, "Grow Young With Me", recorded as a duet with Coley McCabe , and after that, "Waitin' on Sundown" at number 50 and "You Made Me That Way" at number 19.
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) is the social service arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)'s three Illinois synods. [1] It is headquartered in Des Plaines IL. [2] [3] [4] LSSI started in 1867 [1] as an orphanage for children who lost their parents in the cholera epidemic. [5] [6]