Stroke patients in the Southland have better odds for a successful recovery, thanks to a state-of-the-art telemedicine ‘robot’ available in the MetroSouth Medical Center emergency department (ED). Now, patients exhibiting symptoms of stroke will be seen by a highly qualified stroke neurologist any time of the day or night. In addition to an on-call neurologist, [...]

Retired Calumet Park police Sgt. Greg Jones would often wake up in the middle of the night “drowning” in his stomach acids.
“I would just wake up in the middle of the night choking, and it scared the heck out of me,” Jones, of Tinley Park, said.
For more than a decade the 57-year-old father, now [...]

Chronic heartburn patients who have struggled for years with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), now have a clinic in the Southland where they can go for expert advice and the most advanced treatment options for the condition.
MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island has opened a heartburn clinic, the only one of its kind in the Chicago [...]