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After Hechinger story, Illinois passes law requiring hospitals to connect parents of premature babies with life-changing therapies Illinois hospital staff will soon be required by law to refer parents of severely premature infants to services that can help prevent years of intensive and expensive therapy later, when the children are older. The new law follows reporting from The Hechinger Report that exposed how hospitals often fail to connect many eligible parents to these opportunities for their children after they leave neonatal intensive care units. Earlier this year, Hechinger contributor Sarah Carr wrote about how, across the country, far too few parents are made aware of the kinds of therapies their babies are entitled to under federal law. https://hechingerreport.org/illinois-passes-bill-after-hechinger-story-premature-infants/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social