resumed offering some outpatient, clinical services<\/a> and hopes to reopen the hospital in phases this summer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Resilience](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CTC-L-WEST-SUBURBAN-CLOSING-56_261202624.jpg\")
Resilience Healthcare CEO Dr. Manoj Prasad speaks alongside state Rep. La Shawn Ford about the sudden closing and financial situation of the West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, April 1, 2026. (Brian Cassella\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n
During their testimonies, Prasad and Patlola painted very different pictures of the terms of their lease agreement. Patlola testified that Resilience had fallen far short of paying required rent, and that Ramco is allowed to evict it. Patlola is also a minority owner of Resilience.<\/p>\n
But when Prasad\u2019s attorney asked Prasad if the lease allowed Ramco to evict Resilience, he replied, \u201cNo, they cannot.\u201d He said he believed they were operating under a more recent version of the lease that did not allow Ramco to evict Resilience given the current circumstances. Prasad said his understanding was that Resilience had agreed to pay $1 a year, for a time, to use the property, given the hospital\u2019s financial struggles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During his testimony, Patlola said he would never have agreed to that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Patlola also testified that Resilience transferred $35 million into an account that he couldn\u2019t access, owned by Westlaw Management Group. An attorney for Resilience, however, pressed Patlola on the fact that he owns 40% of Westlaw, which Patlola said he didn\u2019t realize until recently.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prasad said Westlaw is a subsidiary of Resilience, and that whenever there were funds beyond what the hospitals needed to operate, they were transferred into the Westlaw account and then used for the hospitals as needed. Resilience also owned and operated Weiss Memorial Hospital, which closed its doors in August.<\/p>\n
Prasad said he never made any attempt to hide the account from Patlola and had given Patlola access to the account.<\/p>\n
Former Resilience Chief Financial Officer Irene Dumanis also took the stand, testifying that Prasad told her to transfer $25,000 to $30,000 every two weeks into a Westlaw account, part of which was to \u201csupplement his payroll.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prasad said on the stand, later in the day, that he never took additional compensation beyond his annual $90,000 salary, and that he disagreed with Dumanis\u2019 testimony.<\/p>\n
Closing arguments in the case are slated to be heard Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Several of those who attended the hearing Friday \u2014 people who worked at West Suburban or were vendors for West Suburban \u2014 said they hope the judge appoints a receiver.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c(The hospital) needs to be in receivership,\u201d said Dr. Vishnu Chundi, a longtime West Suburban infectious disease doctor, after hearing some of the testimony. Chundi expressed concern about money being transferred from Resilience to the Westlaw account, after hearing some of the testimony. \u201cDr. Prasad has demonstrated he can\u2019t run a hospital.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marc Brown, an owner of National Healthcare Resources, which was a vendor to West Suburban and Weiss Memorial Hospital, said Resilience owes his company about $250,000. He said he believes the hospital should go into receivership, noting, \u201cThe state of Illinois has been taken advantage of,\u201d referring to tens of millions of dollars the state advanced West Suburban in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Longtime West Suburban secretary Tracy White said she grew up in the community served by West Suburban and believes it needs to go into receivership.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI have neighbors and friends who ask me, \u2018Do you know if the hospital will be open?\u2019\u201d White said. \u201cThey\u2019re feeling the loss. \u2026 They want the hospital back open.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of the now-shuttered West Suburban Medical Center faced off in court Friday over the hospital\u2019s future,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[274463,274461,97,252,253,60120,274459,274462,244904,244902,244900,274460],"class_list":["post-635407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-chicago-suburbs","tag-dr-manoj-prasad","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-oak-park","tag-ramco","tag-reddy-rathnaker-patlola","tag-resilience-healthcare","tag-weiss-memorial-hospital","tag-west-suburban-medical-center","tag-westlaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635407","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=635407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}