West Suburban Medical Center ownership owes nearly $5 million in local property taxes, according to analysis by the Oak Park Township assessor’s office.
Hospital ownership has not paid any property taxes over the last year, with unpaid bills from the 2024 tax year, the 2025 tax year and mounting late fees bringing the outstanding balance to $4,984,308, according to Oak Park Township Assessor Ali ElSaffar. The hospital closed indefinitely on March 27, as Resilience Healthcare CEO Manoj Prasad cited a failure in the hospital’s billing software leading to monthly revenue shortfalls resulting in the hospital being unable cover payroll expenses.
Hospital owners owe over $3.08 million in 2024 property taxes due last year, over $1.69 million from the first installment of 2025 taxes due this year and over $200,000 in interest from last year’s unpaid taxes, ElSaffar said. The first installment of property taxes that West Sub owners missed last year were due on March 4, 2025, ElSaffar said.
Altera Digital Health, the company that builds the software Prasad blamed for the revenue shortfall that closed West Sub, told Wednesday Journal it started working with the hospital in “mid-2025.”
The hospital is one of the village’s largest taxpayers, with its current unpaid tax balance equivalent to close to 2% of Oak Park’s annual tax burden of about $255 million.
“It really is a lot of money,” ElSaffar said.
The property taxes for the hospital’s River Forest facilities have been paid in full.
While Resilience Healthcare has operated West Sub since 2022, Ramco Holdings is the business entity that owns the hospital property and is likely the one on the hook for the property tax bill, said ElSaffar.
The hospital’s property has several active tax liens for hundreds of thousands of dollars, including an attorney’s lien from a firm specializing in tax appeals.
The unpaid property taxes are just one open tab within a series of debts and financial issues swirling around the safety-net hospital.
Resilience Healthcare also reportedly owes close to $70 million in unpaid Illinois hospital assessment taxes in connection to both West Sub and its now-closed sister hospital Weiss Memorial.
Wednesday Journal has also reported on a variety of facilities issues at the hospital that reflected the dire financial straits West Sub had been in over the last year, including failed fire safety and elevator inspections, interruptions to telephone service at the hospital, the abrupt closing of its birthing and neonatal unit, and the loss of accreditation for its once well-regarded doctor residency program.
Prasad said at a press conference last week that he’s confident that the hospital will reopen by June or July. But moments later, State Rep. and Democratic congressional nominee La Shawn Ford said West Sub is at high risk of foreclosure, where the unpaid tax debt could be sold off.
“Outstanding mortgage payments have been placed both on Weiss and West Suburban, and so that means that this hospital is in foreclosure and the taxes are being sold. So, we have a problem,” Ford said.
In the weeks since West Sub closed, Ramco Holdings owner Reddy Rathnaker has publicly split with Prasad. Through a press representative, Rathnaker called for West Sub to continue without Prasad’s involvement as he reportedly courted a deal with Insight Chicago, a non-profit agency that’s took over operations of Mercy Hospital, a failing institution in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood.
Though Reddy is also a 40% owner of Resilience Healthcare, he said he was not involved in the management or operations of West Suburban and became aware of several issues of concern following the closure of Weiss. Prasad confirmed at last week’s press conference that Reddy had no day-to-day operational responsibilities with the hospital.
“I’m not quite certain how [Insight] is going to do it and how they got involved in the first place, because my landlord has absolutely no authority to be talking about operations for anybody,” Prasad said. “My question to [Insight is], why didn’t they take it in 2022 when it was available?”
Jessica Mordacq contributed reporting