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The Illinois Department of Public Health offers a range of services to promote health and well being across the state:
- Leading information for IL Coronavirus Pandemic
- Inventory of nursing homes in Illinois
- Hospital report card and consumer guide to health
- Vaccinations
- Testing the safety of food, water and drugs
- Licensing to ensure quality health care in hospitals and nursing homes including a nursing home complaint hotline to report suspected abuse or neglect
- Investigations to control the outbreak of infectious diseases
- Collection and evaluation of health statistics to develop prevention and regulatory programs
- Screening newborns for genetic diseases
- Programs for women
- Advance Directives: health care power of attorney, living will, and mental health treatment preference declaration, all available on the
website.
