NW Community Healthcare to Cut Jobs, Add Facilities

Northwest Community Healthcare plans to open four new facilities, including one in Palatine but cut 3 percent of the hospital’s workforce.

110 jobs, both full- and part-time positions will be cut from the Arlington Heights hospital at 901 West Kirchhoff Road, the Daily Herald reports.

The addition of four new suburban facilities is also part of the hospital’s restructuring plans announced Wednesday. plans open outpatient treament facilities in Palatine, Arlington Heights and Schaumburg, as well as a physical therapy facility in Mount Prospect. According to the Daily Herald, the four new facilities are to be developed in 2013.