Hearings set in Danville, Urbana for Provena merger
Have something to say about a proposed hospital merger involving Provena Covenant Medical Center and Provena United Samaritans Medical Center?
A state regulatory panel that will be considering the merger of Provena Health and Resurrection Health Care Corp. has scheduled two public hearings on the same day — Aug. 17 — in Urbana and Danville to hear what people think in the two hospital communities.
The hearing in Danville will be held at 10 a.m. at the Danville Public Library, 319 N. Vermilion St., Danville.
The library asks those attending to park in the lot south of the new library behind the Vermilion County War Museum.
The hearing in Urbana will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Urbana City Council chambers, 400 S. Vine St., U.
The state Health Facilities and Services Review Board is tentatively set to consider the Provena and Resurrection merger in October.
Provena and Resurrection reached a merger agreement in early July, saying they hope to have board approval for the move by the end of the year.
The two systems say their merger would create the largest Catholic health care system in Illinois.
Together, Mokena-based Provena and Chicago-based Resurrection operate 12 hospitals, 28 long-term care and senior residential facilities and more than 50 primary and specialty-care clinics and six home health agencies.
For information about testifying at the hearings, see: http://www.hfsrb.illinois.gov.
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