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Health board leaders under fire

A state senator called for two executives of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board to be fired because they were leaders during a time of corruption on the board.

Edward Hospital in Naperville and Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield have projects awaiting board action this week.

State Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, held a news conference in Chicago on Thursday to publicly urge Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Illinois Department of Public Health Director Damon Arnold to replace Jeffrey Mark, executive secretary of the planning board, and David Carvalho, the health department’s ex-officio representative on the planning board and the Task Force on Health Planning Reform. Brady is one of eight lawmakers on the 19-member Task Force on Health Planning Reform.

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