Palos Health merging with Northwestern Medicine

Palos Health, with its 425-bed sanatorium in Palos Heights and a south campus in Orland Park, is ready to merge with Northwestern Medicine Jan. 1, 2021, the well being care techniques introduced Thursday. Palos Health, which has about 2,800 workers at its two amenities, introduced in September it had signed a letter of intent to enroll in Northwestern. “We look forward to welcoming Palos Health to Northwestern Medicine,” Dean M. Harrison, president and CEO of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, stated in a commentary. “We will join the physicians and staff of Palos Health to provide convenient access to world class care in the southwest suburbs.” Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is the company mother or father of the Northwestern Medicine well being machine,

Merging 3 North Lawndale faculties nonetheless ‘viable’ regardless of

Chicago Public Schools leader Janice Jackson stated she nonetheless hopes to continue with an offer to near 3 group faculties in North Lawndale and open a unmarried substitute, an concept that used to be briefly shelved this week after months of group opposition however which Jackson sees as a “viable plan ... that deserves consideration.” The proposal, submitted through two group teams ultimate month, used to be withdrawn forward of a Tuesday closing date as a result of robust protests from different group and dad or mum organizations who stated the prospective closures would destabilize their group and their enter wasn’t being heard. The teams promised higher engagement with their neighbors shifting ahead. Jackson informed the Chicago Sun-Times after