William Foley, CEO of the Cook County Health & Hospitals System, is reportedly resigning after two years on the job.
Foley joined the system when it was newly independent of the Cook County Commission, and saw it through a top to bottom revamping. Elements of that plan, including turning Provident and Oak Forest hospitals into outpatient centers because of low patient numbers, proved controversial. A state board shot down the Oak Forest idea Monday.
I'll be curious to see who's next to jump into this political hotseat, and whether the system's declining census and apparently difficult relationship with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board might narrow the field of contenders.