The former business partners who’d been running Oak Park’s West Suburban Medical Center together until its abrupt closure in March faced off in court on Friday.
Emergency legal action filed last month by both co-owners of Resilience Healthcare came to a head May 8 with an eight-and-a-half hour hearing inside Cook County Judge Patrick Stanton’s courtroom on the 25th floor of the Daley Center. Resilience Healthcare CEO Manoj Parasd and Resilience co-owner and hospital landlord Rathnaker Reddy Patlola both spent hours on the witness stand, offering radically different versions of the business strategies that governed West Suburban and Chicago’s Weiss Memorial Hospital before both hospitals’ eventual closures.
Patlola filed a lawsuit on April 22 in Cook County court against Resilience Healthcare, seeking $24 million in unpaid rent and fees and alleged that prolonged mismanagement of the hospital drove West Sub and Weiss to collapse. That action came after Prasad sued Patlola alleging that he was trying to illegally evict the hospitals from their real estate…