Lake Forest Hospital officials cited “increasing operating costs, failure to adequately fill 84 beds and flood damage from mid-July” as reasons for the proposed closure, the report states.
Hospital officials said they initially planned to close the facility by the end of the year, but heavy rain damaged the nursing home and led to the early transfer of patients to other facilities, according to the hospital’s application to the Illinois Health Facilities & Services Review Board, obtained by Crain’s.
“We determined the regulatory and financial resources required to maintain an independent custodial care facility on the Lake Forest Hospital campus would no longer be feasible,” a spokesperson for Northwestern Medicine told Crain’s via email.
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