Morning round up: Health care growth in Chicago

- Two old friends open their own medical clinic on the Near North Side. It serves 400 people.

It’s a volunteer operation, funded entirely by private donations and staffed by 10 physicians, 10 nurses, 16 people who contribute clerical services and a part-time paid nurse manager. If a patient needs specialty care, Martinez turns to rheumatologists, orthopedic surgeons, endocrinologists, dermatologists, cardiologists, podiatrists and gynecologists who have agreed to donate services.

- More on Quinton Young's withdrawal from the leadership of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board.

- The city won't tear down the Michael Reese Hospital building to construct an Olympic Village site.

- Twenty clinics and hospitals are considering collaborating to provide better health care access to South Siders.

- The Quinn administration might charge state employees more for health care.

Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration is seeking a health insurance policy that would charge state employees more in monthly premiums if they chose more flexible plans, as opposed to a managed care policy. For example, employees enrolled in the most flexible plans currently pay about $90 a month. Under the administration’s proposal, that premium would increase to nearly $310.

- The Illinois Women's Health Registry is seeking hundreds of thousands of young women, who could join the program, which "database that helps researchers find women for clinical studies focused on conditions such as impaired fertility and osteoarthritis.