Illinois Home

Shield HealthCare is a leading provider of disposable medical supplies, servicing all areas throughout Illinois with a focus on customer satisfaction. We are dedicated to fulfilling the incontinence and adult diaper, ostomy, urological, wound, enteral nutrition and breastfeeding product needs of consumers and the caregiving community. Shield HealthCare serves customers with Medicare, Illinois Medicaid, dual eligible beneficiaries, HMOs and private health care plans. With distribution and customer service offices in Illinois, we are local and here to help.

Shield HealthCare serves customers with Medicare, Illinois Medicaid, dual eligible beneficiaries, HMOs and private health care plans within the entire state of Illinois including:

Arlington Heights

Aurora

Bolingbrook

Champaign

Chicago

Crystal Lake

Des Plaines

Downers Grove

Edwardsville

Elmhurst

Evanston

Glenview

Joliet

Libertyville

Lombard

Mundelein

Naperville

Orland Park

Park Ridge

Peoria

Rockford

Schaumburg

Skokie

Springfield

Tinley Park

Shield HealthCare’s Illinois distribution and customer service office for local assistance is located at:

847 N. Church Ct, Unit A
Chicago, IL 60126-1435

Phone:
(800) 675-8847
 
(630) 530-3650
Fax:
(630) 617-5218

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