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Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago Shuts Down Operations
Weiss Memorial Hospital on Chicago’s North Side shut down last week amid recent financial hurdles and after being dropped from key federal programs.
The 236-bed Weiss Memorial Hospital has been in the neighborhood for decades. The closures follows an incident back in June, where the hospital’s HVAC system malfunctioned, causing patients to be transferred to other hospitals.
Weiss Memorial Hospital opened in 1953, and it was the first nonprofit, general community hospital to be built in Chicago in 25 years. Located in the city’s Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, the facility was once part of the University of Chicago Hospitals system.
Manoj Prasad, the CEO of Resilience Healthcare, which owns Weiss, has initiated the appeal process to try and get the hospital operational again. “First and foremost, to the people in the uptown community, their support is invaluable,” said Prasad. “We were there to serve them and we will be there, god willing, to serve them again.”
