Endaavor Health said on Thursday that it cancels psychological services for internal patients at Northwest Community Hospital and puts a “small number of individuals” through the health system.
About 100 workers in the Northwest community will be affected by a change in the Arlington Heights Hospital. Endefor said in a statement that he hoped “many will join us in other positions through our system.” In addition to these employees, “a small number of individuals in other regions throughout the organization was notified on Wednesday that they were demobilized, Endaavor said.
“Like many in the healthcare industry, we enter 2025 in the face of great pressure from the cost and the opposite sticks that require our institution to adapt and think differently about how to maximize our talents and resources to work effectively and continue to provide high quality and experts for our societies, Endever said in the statement.” Cases, changes may include difficult decisions such as eliminating or reorganizing some situations. “
At North West Society Hospital, psychiatry services are reduced to internal patients due to low demand and an increased focus on external care and community care. The change will eliminate 52 hospital beds for acute mental illness.
Psychiatry services for internal patients will end on April 11. Endever said it is planning to help members of the behavioral health team in the Northwest community “Explore other opportunities in Endaavor Health.”
Endifor said he does not believe that stopping the services of internal patients in the hospital will harm this care in the region because there are still beds for internal psychiatric patients in other endeavors and all over the region. In 2023, there were 71 additional beds for patients with severe mental illness in the northwest of society, according to the Illinois Health Services Review and Services Council.
Endifor said it plans to enhance external mental health services in the Northwest community by adding service providers, creating new programs and integrating advisers in doctors ’offices for primary care.
Endeavor, then known as University Healthystem, was acquired on Northwest Community Hospital in 2021.
Endavor changes follow approximately $ 492 million of the operational loss of the health system during the nine months that ended on September 30. Most of this loss was due to 453 million dollars in the expenses of settlement of patients' claims to claim a former doctors in Endeavor. Endifor said in the financial disclosure in November.
The non -audited financial statement was not called the doctor. But the Swedish Hospital and the Swedish Hospital have settled more than 60 lawsuits against them by former patients from a gynecologist Dr. Fabio Ortega, accusing him of sexual assault on them while working in the health system at the University of Northshore, and he is now seeking. Ortega also worked in Swedish, which is now part of Endeavor.
Many patients claimed in their lawsuits that the hospital systems in which Ortega worked failed to protect them from abuse despite complaints full of other patients. An investigation was described in Chicago Tribune, which was published last year how Endavor Ortega allowed to continue providing care despite multiple complaints of patients.
Originally published: January 30, 2025 at 10:21 am CST
