JourneyCare Acquires Northwestern Memorial Home Health & Hospice Assets

JourneyCare, the largest non-profit, community-based hospice and palliative care provider in Illinois, has acquired Northwestern Memorial HealthCare’s home health and hospice operations for an undisclosed sum. The transaction closed June 1. The purchase extends JourneyCare’s hospice and palliative care footprint in the Chicago metropolitan area to three new counties, for a total of 13, and […]

Court to Non-Profit Hospice: Pay Your Taxes

The Illinois Appellate Court has ruled that a Chicago-area hospice must pay property taxes despite its non-profit status, finding that the organization’s property was not exclusively engaged in charity use. This is the first such case involving a hospice, but similar litigation against providers in other health care settings indicate a trend that non-profit hospices […]