RESOLUTION URGING GOVERNOR RAUNER TO SUPPORT ROSELAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL BY IMMEDIATELY RELEASING FULL FUNDING—AND SUPPORTING CONTINUED FULL FUNDING IN THE STATE BUDGET—TO ALLOW THE INSTITUTION TO CONTINUE PROVIDING VITAL AND LIFE-SAVING SERVICES FOR THE COMMUNITY
WHEREAS, Roseland Community Hospital has been a life-saving anchor for 90 years, serving a community that is over 98% African-American and that suffers a poverty rate that is nearly 1.8 times that ofthe Illinois state average—and an extreme poverty rate more than double the state average.
WHEREAS, Roseland Community Hospital is located in a healthcare desert and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has designated it as serving a medically underserved area/population, and as a primary care, mental health and dental health professional shortage area.
WHEREAS, should Roseland Community Hospital be forced to close due to the current funding crisis, residents would have to travel five miles to the next closest hospital. Advocate Trinity, and nearly eight miles to the nearest trauma center, Advocate Christ, putting residents with life-threatening conditions at a greatly increased risk of death or negative health outcome.
WHEREAS, past funding shortfalls and the current state budget crisis have already decimated vital support programs in the Roseland community, leaving Roseland Community Hospital as the only institution still standing from which residents can receive life saving care and support.
WHEREAS, the Rauner administration has chosen to stop payments to Roseland Community Hospital, including both State and Federal Medicaid funding, despite public appeals by the community and community advocates that the administration continue these life-saving payments.
WHEREAS, without such payments, Roseland Community Hospital is at immediate risk of layoffs, service shutdowns and institutional closure.
WHEREAS, despite the intervention of a Federal judge ordering the continued flow of Federal ...
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