The new owner of St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet plans to suspend inpatient pediatric care at the hospital less than two months after buying St. Joseph and seven other Illinois hospitals from ...

Prime Healthcare, which took over St. Joseph in March, said the hospital's resources could be better used elsewhere given the loss of demand for the pediatric unit.

Joliet residents are expressing concern after the city's only hospital announced that it would no longer accept pediatric patients in need of overnight care beginning later this week. St. Joseph ...