A 5-day eviction notice was placed on an entryway to West Suburban Medical Center’s River Forest campus on Monday, Wednesday Journal has learned.
The notice, as described in the documents, was addressed to Resilience Health CEO Manoj Prasad and a Pipeline Health co-president from Ramco Holdings—the hospital’s landlord and part-owner. It alleges that there is more than $7.25 million in unpaid rent owed to Ramco for the River Forest property.
This comes on the heels of a moment that still hangs over the place: hospital leaders closed both West Suburban Medical Center’s main Oak Park campus and the River Forest clinics on March 27. They said it was due to a prolonged failure in its billing system that left the hospital without the revenue needed to cover payroll. In the weeks since that announcement, the decades-old safety net hospital—and the hundreds of local jobs tied to it—have been left in uncertainty. You could feel the quiet in the hallways after the closures, like when the lights still come on but the work doesn’t start, not exactly.
Resilience and Ramco bought West Sub and the now-closed Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago from Pipeline in 2022. Last year, a lawsuit was filed alleging that Resilience still owed entities associated with Pipeline $67 million in connection with the sale.
And now, the eviction notice is landing while another fight has already spilled publicly between Prasad and Ramco owner Reddy Rathnaker. Through a press representative, Rathnaker called for West Sub to continue without Prasad’s involvement as he reportedly courted a deal with Insight Chicago, a non-profit agency that’s taken over operations of Mercy Hospital in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. (Whether that path moves fast enough to matter right now—well, that part is harder to see.)
Rathnaker is also a 40% owner of Resilience Healthcare, but his representative said he was not involved in the management or operations of West Suburban. Prasad, for his part, confirmed at a press conference earlier this month that Rathnaker had no day-to-day operational responsibilities with the hospital.
In the months leading up to the closure, Wednesday Journal reported on a variety of financial issues at West Sub and at Resilience Healthcare, including unpaid vendors, the loss of the hospital’s once-revered doctor residency program, and millions owed in state and local taxes. This eviction notice now adds another layer—what happens next at the River Forest campus, whether there’s any way to stabilize it quickly, and what it all means for staff trying to plan their lives. For now, it’s still developing.
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