Patients evacuated from Weiss Memorial Hospital over heat suffer again during heat wave at new facility

Patients Moved From One Sweltering Hospital To Another 'Just Trying To Survive'

OAK PARK — Harold O’Connell was suddenly taken from his bed at Uptown’s Weiss Memorial Hospital last week by staff who restrained and rushed the 83-year-old in an ambulance to a medical facility in Oak Park. The Edgewater resident was one of the patients moved from Weiss Hospital when the hospital’s air conditioning went out days ahead of the year’s most intense heat wave to date. In response, Weiss staff moved its 45 patients and care providers…

Patients evacuated from Weiss Memorial Hospital over heat suffer again during heat wave at new facility

When temperatures inside Weiss Memorial Hospital in Uptown rose to 90 degrees last week, Harold O’Connell and 21 other patients were transferred to Weiss’s sister hospital West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park late Tuesday night.But West Suburban was just as hot as Weiss, Harold O'Connell's daughter Diane told the Chicago Sun-Times. Family bought a fan and a thermostat for her dad’s room, and as Chicago experienced its first major heat wave o…

‘Nightmare’ heat at Oak Park hospital, too, after patients moved from Weiss – Usa news

When temperatures inside Weiss Memorial Hospital in Uptown rose to 90 degrees early last week, Harold O’Connell and 21 other patients were transferred to Weiss’ sister hospital, West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. But West Suburban became just as hot as Weiss, Harold O’Connell’s daughter Diane told the Chicago Sun-Times. His family bought a fan and a thermostat for his room, and over the next five days they saw temperatures rise from 80 de…