Illinois Poison Center

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Illinois Poison Center
The Illinois Poison Center is a non-profit health
service that provides the people of Illinois
with comprehensive and trusted information and
treatment advice on potentially harmful
substances via a free, confidential 24-hour
helpline, 18002221222. The helpline is staffed
by specially trained medical experts, including
physicians, nurses and pharmacists.
Education and Outreach Efforts The IPC serves
one of the largest populations of all poison
centers in the nation covering all 102 counties
in Illinois with a total estimated population of
nearly 12.9 million. A free online Poison
Prevention Education Course and Resource Center
(PPERC) enables the public and healthcare
providers to learn about poison prevention and
provides education and presentation materials
that can be shared with their community. Free
continuing education credit available. In 2001
the IPC launched its innovative satellite
education network, the program allows the IPC to
partner with hospitals throughout the state to
provide poison prevention and education.
Currently, the program includes 5 volunteer
satellite education centers.
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The IPC is a partner with the Toxikon Consortium,
one of the largest and most successful
professional toxicology training programs in the
nation. More than 200 pharmacy students, pharmacy
residents, medical students, emergency medicine
residents, and emergency medicine pediatric
fellows received specialized toxicology training
in 2019.
General Information The Illinois Poison Center
is the nations oldest and one of the largest
poison centers in the U.S. In 1953,
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center
founded, funded and operated the first poison
control center in the United States. In 2016, the
Illinois Poison Center became a service of the
Illinois Health and Hospital Association. Click
here for a list of IPC staff. Click here for a
PDF of the Fact Sheet Medical backup for the IPC
is provided by the Toxikon Consortium, a
collaboration of all the toxicology resources
between Cook County (Stroger) Hospital, The
University of Illinois Hospital and Medical
Center of Chicago, and the Illinois Poison
Center. Toxikon faculty include 12 board
certified medical toxicologists and 4 board
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