Charity hospitals reach brink of closure
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
CHICAGO -- Two charity hospitals in Illinois are facing a life-or-death decision. There's not much left of either of them -- one in Chicago's south suburbs, the other in impoverished East St. Louis -- aside from emergency rooms crowded with patients seeking free care. Now they would like the state's permission to shut down.
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