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Resurrection Health Care & Merit Health Care Launch Chicago’s First Sleep Network
First site in new network now open in Lincoln Park
CHICAGO, IL — Resurrection Health Care (RHC) and Merit Sleep Centers have launched a joint venture to open a network of sleep testing facilities that will be the first of its kind in Chicagoland. The first site of the partnership — the RES-Health Sleep Care Center of Lincoln Park — recently opened its doors in the Stone Medical Center Professional Building at 2800 N. Sheridan Road.
As part of the joint venture agreement, Resurrection and Merit will relocate existing RHC hospital-based sleep centers to other campus-based sites and build nine new Chicagoland facilities bringing the total sleep center network size to 25 locations before the end of the year. This new partnership will involve Resurrection becoming a part owner of several existing Merit sleep centers. “Each new site will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology in comfortable hotel-like private rooms,” said John F. Harter, President, Merit Sleep Centers and Merit Sleep Management. “This alliance with Resurrection Health Care allows us to strengthen and expand our ability to provide comprehensive, quality care for sleep disorders across all of Chicagoland.”
“We have been looking for an opportunity to expand our clinical presence in sleep medicine and this partnership with Merit provides the perfect fit,” noted Starr Novak, Senior Vice President, RHC Ambulatory Care Services. The mission of the Lombard-based Merit group of companies, a family-owned business with over 20 years of experience in health care, is comparable to Resurrection Health Care. Merit shares Resurrection’s high standards of care and concern for the quality health care in Chicago communities. We are confident that the new Sleep Centers of Excellence Program will enhance patients’ ability to access prompt, expert care for the diagnosis and treatment of all forms of sleep disorders for adults, adolescents and children.”
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The RES-Health Sleep Care Center-Lincoln Park is part of Resurrection Health Care, ranked in the nation’s top 20 “Best Places to Work in Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare magazine, Resurrection Health Care is a family of health care services providing advanced medical care and exceptional customer service with compassion and hope. Our hospitals, nursing homes, retirement communities, home health services, behavioral health programs and numerous outpatient services are conveniently located in many Chicagoland neighborhoods.
Lombard-based Merit Sleep Centers is part of the Merit group of companies and an affiliate of Lexington Health Care, has operated in the Chicago area for 20 years and currently owns and manages eleven sleep centers in the region, including the only freestanding sleep testing facility dedicated to pediatrics. Merit and Lexington provide home health services, private duty nursing services, custodial care, hospice care and operate nursing homes, assisted living centers and retirement communities all throughout the Chicagoland area. Merit’s sleep disorder program is staffed by physicians who have earned the designation of Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine, as well as registered polysomnographers and licensed respiratory care specialists with expertise in sleep disorders. http://www.meritsleep.com/SleepDisorder.html.
Resurrection Health Care is a not-for-profit Catholic organization sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and the Sisters of the Resurrection.
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