Four South Side Hospitals Are Merging. Why Now?

Four South Side Hospitals Are Merging. Why Now?
A view of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center and nearby apartments in Chicago on Feb. 19, 2008. The hospital's CEO Carol Schneider joined Reset Jan. 29, 2020, to talk about its planned merger with three other South Side hospitals. Eric Allix Rogers / Flickr
Four South Side Hospitals Are Merging. Why Now?
A view of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center and nearby apartments in Chicago on Feb. 19, 2008. The hospital's CEO Carol Schneider joined Reset Jan. 29, 2020, to talk about its planned merger with three other South Side hospitals. Eric Allix Rogers / Flickr

Four South Side Hospitals Are Merging. Why Now?

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Four South Side hospitals have decided to merge. 

Reset checks in with two of their CEOs to discuss why it’s happening and how it will work.

GUESTS: Rashard Johnson, CEO of Advocate Trinity Hospital 

Carol Schneider, CEO of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center