OSF announced an April 7 opening date for the Peru hospital Monday.

The OSF HealthCare clinic in Spring Valley? It will open Jan. 11. The Oglesby clinic? Jan. 16 is the big day. The Peru hospital? That’s a work in progress.

The former Illinois Valley Community Hospital officially belongs to OSF HealthCare.

OSF PromptCare at 1650 Midtown Road in Peru announced it will be open expanded hours from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week.

Carolyn Zasada, DeKalb First Ward Alderwoman, announced she'll seek the 76th District in the Illinois house in 2024 as a Democrat, putting her in line for another square up with Democrat and Mayor Cohen Barnes, also running.

After the Spring Valley hospital closed, St. Margaret’s Health issued vague statements that an unnamed lender had thwarted its efforts to keep the hospital open. That lender was Spring Valley City Bank.

St. Margaret’s Health owes Spring Valley City Bank nearly $27 million, according to a recent filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

St. Margaret’s Health filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday and disclosed at least 1,000 creditors who are owed not less than $10 million but not more than $50 million.

Fire departments across Northern Illinois are feeling the pinch of staff shortages and less funding, causing stakeholders across the state to set up a task force to look for solutions.

State Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, updated a La Salle County Board committee on the status of reopening a hospital in Peru, including comments about how first responders are adapting to issues in the interim.

The Ottawa Fire Department will receive $731,849 from a federal grant to hire more staff in response to the closure of Spring Valley and Peru hospitals.

OSF HealthCare announced the temporary clinic locations and schedules for MDs Ricardo Calderon, Fazal Khan, Louis Lukancic, Michael Morrow, Robert Morrow, Vijay Sharma, and APPs Cynthia Salazar, Elizabeth Stuart, Britnae Lewis, Patricia Blackburn, Karen Eggers and Taylor Vipond.

OSF HealthCare still does not own the Peru hospital – a sale is pending – but the healthcare network did get the OK to reopen the hospital.

Dr. Paul Perona, a board certified orthopedic surgeon with fellowship training in adult joint reconstructive surgery, now is seeing patients at the Morris Hospital Orthopedics & Sports Medicine office at 1306 Gemini Circle, Suite 2, Ottawa.

Ogle and Carroll counties are among 36 Illinois counties labeled maternity care deserts. An additional 16 Illinois counties have low or moderate, not full, access.

OSF HealthCare announced the new OSF Medical Group – Gastroenterology office will open on Monday, July 17, at 1304 Gemini Circle, Ottawa.

OSF HealthCare had a hearing set Aug. 15 on a change-of-ownership application for the Peru hospital. Now, the hearing is July 27.

OSF HealthCare announced the opening of the Midtown Plaza complex, Midtown Health Center and Granville Clinic will be the morning of Monday, July 10, including OSF PromptCare, OSF Medical Group – Primary Care locations, OSF Occupational Health and OSF Rehabilitation.

The closed Peru hospital will become OSF St. Elizabeth-Medical Center in Peru – it will remain a sister hospital to Ottawa – and it should open by Thanksgiving.

IVCC hosted the Coping with Job Loss Resource event Tuesday at the Mary Margaret Weeg Cultural Center in partnership with the Illinois Valley Area Chamber of Commerce and the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The Parkinson’s Support Group that met every first Monday of the month at St. Margaret’s hospital in Spring Valley will now be meeting at the Utica Fire Protection District Meeting Room on Route 178.

St. Margaret’s Health owes its emergency room physicians more than $670,000, according to a court filing.

OSF HealthCare will welcome providers in gastroenterology and primary care in the Illinois Valley.

Here are the former St. Margaret's doctors who have joined OSF and soon will open in either the Midtown Plaza complex, Midtown Health Center and/or Granville Clinic.

At 11:59 p.m. Friday, June 16, St. Margaret’s Health-Spring Valley will be closed. Here is some basic information and where to find the next closest ERs.

Shaw Local News Network asked OSF to answer the most frequently-asked questions. Here are the answers.

Carle Health has completed contract agreements with providers Drs. Thaw Tun and Mario Cote.

Illinois Valley Community College is hosting a free Coping with Job Loss resource event from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 27 in the Mary Margaret Weeg Cultural Centre.

Effective immediately, BPART will expand services to include rides from Bureau or Putnam counties to and from Ottawa every Monday.

With St. Margaret’s closed, the Putnam County Library would like to remind residents the library district offers the St. Margaret’s medical transfer papers at no charge at any library branch in the county.

With hours before St. Margaret’s Health-Spring Valley was closed for good, dozens of displaced workers, retirees and supportive residents steadily filled the south parking lot Friday for hugs, tears and thanks.

Local mayors said Friday they’re working on contingencies to ensure rapid-response times by EMS personnel and trying to ready the local workforce for the day when OSF HealthCare restores hospital services in Peru.

St. Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley now is closed as of Friday night. The closure leaves western La Salle and eastern Bureau counties without an emergency room.

OSF HealthCare has filed the paperwork needed to fully and formally acquire St. Margaret’s Health-Peru (the former Illinois Valley Community Hospital). Fair market value was listed at $38 million.

As it works on setting up its network in the Peru area, OSF is using a phone line for Illinois Valley area residents to call for information on care options, or to set up a new patient appointment. The number is 844-673-2778.

The St. Margaret’s Health board of directors met Friday and finalized the Spring Valley hospital will close 11:59 p.m. Friday, June 16, leaving western La Salle and eastern Bureau counties without an emergency room through the summer.

Many patients of St. Margaret’s Health still seek options as the network vanishes – the Spring Valley hospital could close June 16 – but patients at the Hygienic Institute in La Salle at least have a place to go.

Mayor Melanie Thompson told the Spring Valley City Council Monday a suitor for St. Margaret's Hospital has declined.

The St. Margaret’s Health - Streator Medical Clinic, 104 E. Bridge St., will be permanently closed effective Wednesday, May 31.

With less than a month before Spring Valley is poised to lose its hospital, lawmakers are working on a plan B: Expediting the reopening of the Peru hospital.

St. Margaret’s will close several clinics by June 9 – including the Hygienic Institute – and the Spring Valley hospital could close the following Friday, June 16, without emergency funding, possibly leaving western La Salle and eastern Bureau counties without an ER for the summer

St. Margaret’s Health has found a buyer for the Peru hospital. OSF HeathCare will acquire the former Illinois Valley Community Hospital.

Peru’s new aldermen turned their attention to solutions to the St. Margaret’s Hospital closure after being sworn in during Monday’s City Council meeting.

The Jan. 28 closing of the Peru hospital reached the front offices at the Sterling and Dixon hospitals and officials there decided this was a time, and an opportunity, for outreach.

St. Margaret’s Health “has been meeting with a larger health system regarding the potential acquisition of St. Margaret’s” in recent months, according to an internal memorandum dated Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood is urging the IDPH and the Illinois Health Facilities & Services Review Board to take every possible action to preserve access to care in Peru and surrounding communities following the sudden closure Jan. 28 of St. Margaret’s Health-Peru.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration is aware of St. Margaret’s situation, state lawmakers confirmed Friday.

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Dunlap, addressed the closure of St. Margaret’s Hospital in Peru, the former Illinois Valley Community Hospital, in his visit to Streator on Tuesday.

Patients, young mothers and now-unemployed nurses all condemned the closing of St. Margaret’s Health-Peru and the La Salle County Board called for St. Margaret’s to reopen in some form and with obstetrics.

Following the closure of St. Margaret’s hospital in Peru, OSF Healthcare announced it is exploring the possibility of prenatal care at OSF Medical Group in Princeton.