Article: State OKs overhaul of Joliet hospital.

Byline: Karen Mellen

May 4--Provena St. Joseph Medical Center can proceed with a massive overhaul and expansion of its Joliet facility, but a state board on Tuesday turned down for a second time Advocate Health Care of Oak Brook's request to build a hospital in Tinley Park.

The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, meeting in Downstate Carbondale, also asked St. Francis Hospital and Health Center of Blue Island to defer discussion of its proposed Orland Park hospital until June because board members did not get all the supplemental data for that project, a board spokeswoman said.

Several hospital companies have asked for permission to enter ...

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