IVCH Coronavirus Update

July 29, 2020

The Illinois Department of Public Health and the LaSalle County Health Department have both issued warnings that the number of COVID-19 cases in the county is increasing and similar reports have also been received from surrounding counties. Both agencies are recommending renewed adherence to safety measures that have proven to be successful in limiting the spread of the coronavirus. They include: ...

IVCH Administers its 1,000th Coronavirus Test

July 8, 2020

Illinois Valley Community Hospital administered its 1,000 th test for the novel coronavirus over the Independence Day weekend. Although it’s a test for a disease almost no one had ever heard of six months ago and in terms of quantity is still well down on the list of diagnostic tests performed at IVCH every day, the covid-19 nose swab has taken on an out-sized importance in life at the ...

Mood Boosting Foods to Keep in Your Kitchen

Posted By Haleigh Augspols, MS, RD, LDN

June 29, 2020

Let’s face it, 2020 is just not the year we thought it was going to be. COVID19 has caused us all to cancel so many of our exciting plans, which has us feeling blue- or even a bit blah! We may be stressing over the foods we are eating, stressing over the possible weight we might be gaining and stressing over if things will ever get back to normal. With so much negativity, we all need a ...

More Visitor Restrictions Loosened at IVCH

Posted By Joan Fernandez

June 15, 2020

Visitor restrictions at Illinois Valley Community Hospital continue to be eased as the number of new coronavirus cases in the state continues to trend downward. Patients on the hospital’s medical floor and in the intensive care unit will each be allowed to have one visitor beginning Monday, June 15th with certain restrictions. Among them: The patient must designate who their visitor will be ...

IVCH Easing Visitor Restrictions with State of Illinois Phase 3 re-openings

Posted By Joan Fernandez

June 9, 2020

Illinois Valley Community Hospital is easing some visitor restrictions as part of Phase 3 re-opening of the state of Illinois. Beginning Monday, June 8, obstetrics patients who have sonogram appointments and all day surgery patients will be allowed to have one person accompany them into the hospital. The visitors will be screened and required to wear masks at all times. If you are accompanying a ...