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Oak Park/Austin Health Alliance
Petition to Protect Our Community Hospitals
Resurrection Health Care recently announced plans to sell West Suburban and Westlake Hospitals to Vanguard Health Systems, a for-profit corporation. Now employees and community residents who rely on these hospitals are concerned about their future. The Illinois Attorney General will review this proposed sale because it involves a for-profit corporation taking over nonprofit hospitals. We must demans that this sale... »
Rally: Tell Resurrection Health Care to Put Patients First
Action for Quality Patient Care Thursday, April 30 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM Bentley/Lamborghini Gold Coast 834 N. Rush St., Chicago Employees at Resurrection Health Care's eight hospitals work hard to ensure that patients get high quality care. However, Resurrection Health Care management has focused on the bottom line and the impact on quality of care is painfully clear. Resurrection Hospitals consistently... »
Resurrection West Suburban Hospital Cooks the PR Books
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: RWS Hospital Cooks the PR Books by Bill Barclay Recently Pat Shehorn, the new CEO at Oak Park's Resurrection West Suburban Hospital (RWS; she also continues as CEO at Westlake Hospital in Melrose), had initiated a PR campaign to rehabilitate the hospital's image in the minds of the surrounding community. In both ads and letters to the... »
OPAHA: Fighting for Quality Health Care and Workers’ Rights
Oak Park Austin Health Alliance Working to Reform West Suburban / Resurrection Hospital In 2004 Oak Park’s largest hospital, West Suburban, was acquired by Resurrection Health Care (RHC), a large Catholic hospital chain. West Suburban was a primary source of quality health care in the Oak Park and Austin communities as well as... »
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