OAK PARK, Ill. (WLS) — West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park officially closed Friday.<\/p>\n
ABC7 Chicago spoke with some patients who say they found out Thursday<\/a> the hospital was shutting its doors.<\/p>\n Dr. Manoj Prasad, the CEO of Resilience Health, announced Wednesday<\/a> that operations at West Suburban, in addition to Weiss Hospital in Uptown, were being suspended until a problem with the billing system is fixed.<\/p>\n ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n The Oak Park hospital, founded in 1914 and known for robust training and care in previous years, ceased operations Friday.<\/p>\n West Suburban hospital has been busy with people coming and going, including first responders to transporting patients to other hospitals.<\/p>\n “It used to be like a big home, a big community when you came here. Very loving,” physical therapist Marlene Wesol-Cid said.<\/p>\n Wesol-Cis has been a physical therapist there for nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n “We have a big dedicated staff people who have been here for years and years and try to do the best for our patients we can,” Wesol-Cid said.<\/p>\n “It’s just heartbreaking, just hoping the best for everyone moving forward,”physical therapist Abby Sullivan said. “There are no good words to put to everything that’s been going on.”<\/p>\n The sudden closure leaves nearby healthcare providers wondering how they will be impacted.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for RUSH Oak Park confirms staff there are preparing for more patients.<\/p>\n Dr. Paul Luning is the Chief Medical Officer at PCC Community Wellness Center, which has 15 healthcare centers in the area. Luning shared that he began his career as a resident at West Suburban.<\/p>\n “It’s painful, both emotionally and intellectually, because we know the hospital is not going to be able to serve patients we’ve been able to serve for 30 years,” Dr. Luning said.<\/p>\n Perhaps an example of the impact of West Suburan closing, ABC7 was told a patient came to PCC on Lake Street needing emergency care. Instead of the ambulance going to a hospital nearby, where ABC7 was told the emergency rooms were busy with extra West Suburban patients, the ambulance went to another hospital further away in the city.<\/p>\n “It’s tough when patients don’t have the options they deserve,” Dr. Luning said.<\/p>\n PCC will continue to operate its urgent care and appointments in the office building of West Suburban, but anyone who needs emergency care will need to go elsewhere.<\/p>\n The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board reports the suspension in services requires the owner to file a report every 30 days, and if the suspension is not lifted after a year, the owner needs to file for an extension or discontinue operations permanently.<\/p>\n The furloughs at West Suburban come seven months after Weiss Memorial Hospital in Uptown, which is also owned by Resilience, was largely shuttered.<\/p>\n Weiss Hospital stopped in-patient and emergency care months ago when it was kicked off the Medicare program<\/a> over conditions inside the hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAK PARK, Ill. (WLS) — West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park officially closed Friday. ABC7 Chicago spoke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[244678,97,252,253],"class_list":["post-549498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-244678","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}