It is time for luck. The fate will be decided in a board meeting which has been scheduled this morning in Joliet. The entire Oak Forest Hospital’s fate depends on this meeting.

Moreover, the hospital board wants to close the emergency and the inpatient department to curb out some cost to balance the situation. However, health care facility will be given to the outdoor patients.

Illinois Health Facility has not allowed the Oak Forest Hospital to stop these services as this would result into a huge medical crisis in the suburbs. However, Oak Forest Hospital mentioned that other hospitals have huge inpatient capacity and it would not affect the health care situation.

"With economic downturns, you can finesse them for 12 months or 24 months," said Jim Tallon, President of the non-profit United Hospital Fund of New York, a research and philanthropic organization. "But now everybody's used up all their tricks. That's when people throw their hands up in the air and say we're not going to be able to continue operating".

However, people residing in the suburbs suggested that it will become very scary for them if the hospital withdraws such important health care facility. People will be affected in case they require any emergency services.