An eviction notice was placed on an entryway to West Suburban Medical Center’s River Forest campus on Monday, Wednesday Journal has learned.
The 5-day eviction notices were addressed to Resilience Health CEO Manoj Prasad and a Pipeline Health co-president from Ramco Holdings, the hospital’s landlord and part-owner. The notice alleged that there is more than $7.25 million in unpaid rent owed to Ramco for the River Forest property.
The eviction note comes after hospital leaders closed both West Suburban Medical Center’s main Oak Park campus and the River Forest clinics on March 27, citing a prolonged failure in its billing system that left the hospital without the revenue to cover its payroll. In the weeks since the announcement, the future of the decades-old safety net hospital and hundreds of local jobs have sat in uncertainty.
Resilience and Ramco bought West Sub and the now-closed Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago from Pipeline in 2022. A lawsuit filed last year alleged that Resilience still owed entities associated with Pipeline $67 million in connection with the sale.
The evection notice also follows a public split between Prasad and Ramco owner Reddy Rathnaker.
Through a press representative, Rathnaker called for West Sub to continue without Prasad’s involvement as he reportedly courted a deal with Insight Chicago, a non-profit agency that’s taken over operations of Mercy Hospital, a failing institution in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood.
Though Reddy is also a 40% owner of Resilience Healthcare, his representative said he was not involved in the management or operations of West Suburban. Prasad confirmed at a press conference earlier this month that Reddy had no day-to-day operational responsibilities with the hospital.
In the months leading up to the closure, Wednesday Journal reported on a variety of financial issues at West Sub and at Resilience Healthcare including unpaid vendors, the loss of the hospital’s once-revered doctor residency program and millions owed in state and local taxes.
This is a developing story.
