Overview

• State investigators documented a makeshift emergency department in an office building lacking centralized oxygen, ventilator hookups and portable X-ray capabilities
• Two doctors and a nurse told IDPH inspectors that absent medications, monitoring equipment and sufficient supervising nurses made adequate patient care impossible, leading to three transfers
• CMS notified Weiss Memorial that it will stop Medicare payments for inpatient admissions beginning August 9 for failing to meet federal nursing, emergency and facility standards
• Hospital CEO Dr. Manoj Prasad has labeled the state’s findings “untrue,” saying the ER relocation was state-approved and properly resourced
• Medicare accounted for over half of Weiss’s revenue, leaving the hospital facing a funding gap as it considers legal appeals against the payment termination