CRYSTAL LAKE – Mercyhealth won its 14-year battle to bring a hospital to Crystal Lake, but the Rockford-based health care system wasn’t done throwing punches at its competition. Paul Van Den Heuvel, vice president and general counsel for Mercyhealth, submitted a letter Thursday to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board reporting what he called “disingenuous opposition letters and testimony filed by or on behalf of Centegra Health System” after Wednesday’s announcement that Centegra plans to suspend most inpatient care at its Woodstock hospital. Centegra officials stood by their comments and testimony to the review board and called Heuvel’s letter “ridiculous.” Centegra’s announcement came a day after the review board granted Mercyhealth approval to build its 13-bed small hospital in Crystal Lake, which Centegra opposed, in part, citing an excess number of hospital beds in the area. In the letter, Heuvel disputed claims that Centegra took “careful consideration” in changing its services at Woodstock.

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