Chief Healthcare Executive August 21, 2024
Prime Healthcare is buying Ascension’s hospitals in Illinois, but the system has notified state officials it plans to shut down one facility.
Even as Prime Healthcare looks to complete a deal to acquire Ascension’s nine hospitals in Illinois, the system says it’s planning to close one of the facilities.
In a notice filed with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services and Review board earlier this month, Prime Healthcare says it plans to close Ascension St. Elizabeth in Chicago after the transaction is finalized.
In its filing, Prime says that the only inpatient service offered at St. Elizabeth is treatment for acute mental illness, and that the facility’s average daily census in 2023 was around 17 patients. Prime also notes that...
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