On Monday night, community and religious leaders say if this hospital does not reopen, like leaders promise, neighbors could be placed in unnecessary life-or-death decisions.
"We can't play games with people lives like that," said Redeemed Outreach Ministry Rev. Robin Hood.
"This cannot become a health care desert. We can't afford to have people dying in the streets," said Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago Pastor and Insight Hospital board member Dr. H.A. Barlow.
As West Suburban Medical Center's owners work to find its financial footing, Chicago pastors and community leaders are mobilizing to make sure the hospital reopens but under a new owner.
"We see an opportunity and a chance to change the trajectory, because, far as I can tell, and far as what I've been getting, that hospital is never going to open again under that current administration," Hood said.
Resilience Health's CEO spoke with ABC7 last week, saying he is working to fix a billing system problem to reopen the hospital in July.
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But people at Monday night's West Side town hall meeting, including West Suburban hospital staff, were not convinced.
"As health care workers, we don't have faith he's doing right with the funds that's been appropriated to him," said West Suburban Hospital Nursing Director Sylvia Williams. "We don't have faith that he is the leader that will make us grow or excel."
Louvenia Hood with Mothers Opposed to Violence Everywhere says her organization rallied to keep Mercy Hospital, now Insight, open.
"It will be devastating. There'll be more and more and more deaths going on, waiting in the waiting rooms, and not enough doctors and nurses and stuff to take care of those individuals," she said.
Insight's CEO was present at Monday night's meeting, surrounded by calls for them to step in, fearing the worst if West Suburban were to shut its doors for good.
"This is traumatic, and it's devastating, and it just should not be. It shouldn't be," Barlow said.
Monday night's group of about 30 individuals hope the meeting is the first of many to mobilize this community.
ABC7 reached out to Resilience Health and did not immediately hear back.