CENTRAL ILLINOIS WCIA) — Last week, the OSF network announced some major changes. Urbana’s Heart of Mary and Danville’s Sacred Heart will soon become one hospital with two campuses. But part of the reshuffling will also see two Champaign-Urbana urgent cares close their doors.

OSF confirmed the urgent care on-call clinics on Neil Street and Prospect Avenue will close, but there is no timeline yet for when that’ll happen. This is one of several changes coming to OSF in the next year.

Starting as soon as January 1, Danville’s Sacred Heart Hospital and Urbana’s Heart of Mary will merge into one hospital with two campuses.

“Facilities will be renamed as such to OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center, Danville … OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center, Urbana,” said OSF President J.T. Barnhart.

Campuses will see different specializations. Urbana will specialize in behavioral health services while also maintaining emergency and some outpatient services. It will also move most inpatient services to Sacred Heart Danville.

In an interview last week, Barnhart said the change eliminates duplicated services while growing behavioral health services in Urbana.

“And so our strategy with the campus here at Heart of Mary Medical Center, is to expand that. We’ve just received about $13 million of capital to build two more floors of behavioral health services on the seventh and eighth floor,” Barnhart said.

And their counterpart in Danville will focus on general medical care.

“We are shifting resources to our hospital in Danville. General surgery, GI, orthopedics, our pulmonary ICU is shifting,” Barnhart added. “There is an enormous need at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Danville and Vermilion County for specialty services.”

But these changes are not without closures. In Champaign, the Prospect Avenue and the Neil Street on-call urgent cares are set to eventually close their doors for good.

“Our H.R. over the next couple of weeks, and in our leadership, is meeting with each and every one of our mission partners, just to explore what opportunities we have,” Barnhart said.

OSF won’t know a total number of job losses until those conversations happen, but they hope to keep at least 75% of impacted employees on board.

“We want to make sure we’re putting the right resources, the right services in the right place to best care for the communities we serve,” says Barnhart.

OSF said they’ll be reaching out to patients impacted by the changes to go over their options. Typically, that’ll come through the mail or on their online portal. The changes start January 1, 2026 pending state approval.