As One Chicago Hospital Plans To Close, Another Aims To Expand
Despite pandemic struggles for some hospitals, Chicago-based Northwestern plans to affiliate with another suburban hospital, which would be the 11th in its system.
Despite pandemic struggles for some hospitals, Chicago-based Northwestern plans to affiliate with another suburban hospital, which would be the 11th in its system.
The hospital says that shouldn’t affect patient care on the South Side, but public health officials argue the area is a “health care desert.”
A freestanding birth center could give expectant mothers more options on the South Side. But there are legal and financial barriers in the way.
The Southwest Side community hospital could be forced to turn away some elderly patients if patient safety issues aren’t resolved.
After years of losing money and patients, Mercy plans to close next year. The South Side hospital mainly treats low-income and elderly people of color.
The South Side hospital stopped delivering babies in March, when COVID-19 cases rose, leaving women with fewer choices to give birth in the area.
With official contact tracing programs still hiring workers, some businesses are doing their own tracing to track customer and employee exposure to the virus.
In a letter filed with regulators, the Near South Side hospital revealed that its parent company tried to sell the struggling hospital for more than a year before deciding to close it.
The struggling hospital was one of four that had hoped to merge, but failed in its attempt to get money from the state to do so.
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