URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — OSF Healthcare’s recently announced plans to combine its hospitals in Urbana and Danville will face review from the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board.

Part of the review process is public comment. A similar OSF consolidation is underway in LaSalle and Peru Counties where the opposition in the public hearing caused a one-year deferral of the plan.

“Actions like what is being proposed, those public hearings are requested, and they take place,” said Urbana City Attorney Matt Roeschly. “In LaSalle County, hospital locations are doing the same thing and they’re going through this process. They just had a public hearing last week; there’s a lot of opposition there and they’re expected to request a deferral for up to a year.”

The plan, if approved, will merge Danville’s Sacred Heart Hospital and Urbana’s Heart of Mary into one hospital with two separate campuses. The Urbana campus would expand its behavioral health services while maintaining its 24-hour emergency room.

Certain clinical services would then shift to Danville or Bloomington, and two Champaign urgent care locations would close.

The changes would be in place as of Jan. 1, 2026, if approved by HFSRB.