Lincoln Park Hospital being shuttered today
By Becky Yerak | Tribune staff reporter
3:22 PM CDT, October 15, 2008
Lincoln Park Hospital is being shut down Wednesday.
Its owner had put the property up for sale but couldn't find a buyer quickly enough and is closing it immediately, a person familiar with the matter said.
"The rumor it might shut has caused problems with employees and staffing issues," a source said.
The hospital doesn't want to deliver poor quality health care, so it is going to cease operations.
Last week the hospital acknowledged that it was on the sales block and in danger of closing if a deal wasn't struck, partly because the difficulty of getting financing is making it tougher to run the 125-year-old facility.
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