Hospitals are also seeing higher uncompensated care as individuals lose Medicaid coverage or decide not to purchase health insurance. If there are changes to the health insurance exchanges, more ...

Ezike violated the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act’s “revolving door” provision in 2022 by accepting a job as CEO of Sinai Chicago, a hospital based on Chicago’s West side.

Former Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led state health policy during the height of ...

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led the IDPH response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was fined $150,000 for an ethics violation.

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, agreed to “a violation of the Ethics Act and the facts comprising the violation, in that she accepted employment ...

CHICAGO —Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the public face of Gov. JB Pritzker’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been fined $150,000 for violating a state revolving-door ethics law when she left her job ...

She has been fined for violating a state revolving-door ethics law when she left her job as director of the Illinois Department of Public Health in March 2022 to become president and CEO of Sinai ...

Dr. Ngozi Ezike lead the Illinois Department of Public Health during the COVID-19 pandemic. She later became president and CEO of Sinai Chicago, which has contracts with the department.