(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — State regulators on Tuesday unanimously rejected plans by the owners of Mercy Hospital to shut the facility down next spring.
Trinity Health, which owns Mercy Hospital in Bronzeville, characterized the plan as a “transformation” in which the organization would replace Mercy with an outpatient clinic elsewhere.
Trinity executive vice president John Capasso told the Health Facilities and Services Review Board the move would not reduce needed healthcare in the area.
But Board chair Debra Savage pointed out the clinic wouldn’t open until October, and several board members stressed that closing a hospital during a pandemic didn’t seem wise.
Capasso and his team said the Bronzeville facility is losing money because of competition with university medical centers, among other reasons.
In the end, all six board members voted “no.”
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