Mercedes Wells' experience at Franciscan Health Crown Point highlights disparities in Black women's birth experiences.

A Chicago mother gave birth to her fourth child on the side of the road after being prematurely discharged from Franciscan ...

Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, is sponsoring a bill to bar hospitals from turning away or sending home a woman in active labor without a “Safe Discharge Labor Plan,” according to NBC News, which was ...

For patients recovering from opioid use disorder, particularly from drugs like fentanyl or heroin, the days immediately following a hospital stay are among the most dangerous. A new multi-state study ...

Federal bill would mandate safe discharge plans for labor patients, requiring hospitals to ensure clinical justification and transportation ...

Two staff members at Franciscan Health Crown Point were fired after a woman gave birth on a highway following her discharge.

Watching the bill to release the Epstein files go from a stalled discharge petition with 217 signatures to passing both ...

Mercedes Wells is back in the hospital, less than a week after being forced to give birth to her baby girl in her husband's ...

A Northwest Indiana family is speaking out after they say a hospital sent a pregnant mother home — only for her to give birth ...

An Illinois congresswoman is proposing legislation "to protect all moms" after one of her constituents was discharged from a ...

A Chicago mother gave birth to her fourth child on the side of the road after being prematurely discharged from Franciscan ...