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Modern Healthcare, May, 2005

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board earlier this month approved a $126 million expansion of 333-bed Provena St. Joseph Medical Center, Joliet, Ill.; rejected for the second time a proposal by Advocate Health Care to build a new hospital in Tinley Park, Ill.; and deferred a decision on a competing proposal by SSM Health Care. The Joliet expansion includes an eight-story patient tower and 199 new private rooms. The certificate-of-need board has rejected several hospital projects since being dissolved and reconstituted last summer after allegations it was inappropriately influenced in CON decisions.

CHICAGO-The Illinois Nurses Association sued Cook County, Ill., in early May, seeking a temporary injunction to block a new limit on...

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