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March 13, 2019 Vol. 39, No. 31 ONE DOLLAR @oakpark @wednesdayjournal
JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest
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West Sub’s new owner, under fire, pledges loyalty Pipeline says despite closure of Westlake Hospital, they’re committed to West Suburban By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
Some changes are headed to West Suburban Medical Center, as the hospital’s new owner works to close another hospital it owns in Melrose Park and consolidate the resources of the two in Oak Park. Pipeline Health, a California-based private healthcare network, purchased West Suburban along with Weiss Memorial in Chicago and Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare for $70 million in January. Two weeks later, Pipeline announced that it planned on closing Westlake this year in order to invest in West Suburban and Weiss. After announcing the pending closure of the 233-bed Melrose Park hospital last month, Pipeline officials said they’ll invite qualified Westlake employees to apply for positions at West Suburban or Weiss Memorial, and that a comSee PIPELINE on page 15
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IN MEMORY: Tonya Gary leaves a message for her cousin, Joy Tyus, who died in a car crash Saturday night in Oak Park, on a makeshift memorial erected at the intersection of Ridgeland Avenue and South Boulevard.
OP police charge man connected to car crash death Chicagoan accused of reckless homicide and aggravated DUI
By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Oak Park Police Department have charged a Chicago man with one count of reckless homicide and two counts of aggravated driving under the influence in connection with a car crash over the weekend that left one person dead and another
seriously injured. Police announced March 11 that they have charged Kendall R. Harrison, 25, of the 1300 block of North Washtenaw Avenue, Chicago. He remains in custody and will appear at a bond hearing on March 12 at the Maybrook courthouse in Maywood. Harrison was taken into custody on Saturday, March 9, after crashing an SUV into a
vehicle driven by Austin resident Joy Tyus at about 10:30 p.m. near the intersection of South Boulevard and Ridgeland Avenue. Tyus, 28, was a lifelong resident of the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, according to a relative. She and her boyfriend, Pierre Shelton, See CAR CRASH on page 13
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