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Published December 15, 2020 • Updated on December 15, 2020 at 6:09 pm NBCUniversal Media, LLC A state board rejected a plan Tuesday to close a Chicago hospital after pleas from the community to keep the doors open. Trinity Health wants to close Mercy Hospital in Chicagos Bronzeville neighborhood, saying the site is losing money as well as patients. It has proposed to open an outpatient clinic about two miles away. “Failure to acknowledge the realities of today will mean that the residen...

Illinois board rejects plan to close Mercy Hospital By AP NEWS Trinity Health wants to close Mercy Hospital in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, saying the site is losing money as well as patients. It has proposed to open an outpatient clinic about two miles away. “Failure to acknowledge the realities of today will mean that the residents of the South Side of Chicago will continue to suffer gross health care inequities,” said John Capasso, a Trinity Health executive vice president. But...

A state board on Tuesday unanimously rejected a plan to close Mercy Hospital in the Bronzeville neighborhood. The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board voted 6-0 after about four hours of testimony from dozens of community members, activists, doctors and nurses — all of whom called for the board to reject Trinity Health’s request. Trinity Health said it was disappointed by the board’s vote. “We will look forward to going before the board again in early 2021 with our plans...

PEORIA — In a historic moment, health care workers in Chicago and Peoria on Tuesday became the first groups in Illinois to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, marking what Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike called “the beginning of the end” of the pandemic. The vaccine, developed by the drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week and is now being shipped throughout the United Sta...