Success Stories in Healthcare
Chicago-based Accretive Health Inc. is growing exponentially by doing something that seems very simple: making it easier for healthcare facilities do what they're meant to do—provide healthcare. To get the workforce that the company needs, Accretive has partnered with Chicago Career Tech (CCT) to train the skilled customer service representatives required to handle medical billing and insurance questions that clients may have.
Thousands of the world’s top scientific minds and leaders wrapped around Chicago this week for the annual BIO International Convention (BIO2010), returning once again after a hugely successful event in 2006.
Life science company, Sword Diagnostics, Inc., recently relocated its corporate headquarters and research facilities to downtown Chicago to accommodate planned growth, doubling the size of its previous space.
Therapeutic Proteins Inc. (TPI), recently relocated to a new manufacturing facility at IIT's University Technology Park, bringing 40 jobs to Chicago.
Deerfield-based Walgreens opened its first downtown Chicago office, with 65 of its e-commerce department employees locating at the historic Sullivan Center, 1 S. State St.
In late 2004, Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., based in Deerfield, Illinois, and Yamanouchi Pharma America, Inc., of Paramus, New Jersey, announced a merger of their North American headquarter operations at Fujisawa’s Deerfield headquarters, leasing additional space to accommodate the new operations. The new combined company, named Astellas Pharma US Inc., announced the merger would retain 350 jobs and add 75 more in Deerfield.
Hospira, Inc. was spun off as an independent business by Abbott Laboratories in May, 2004, and established its headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois.
