Aurora Health Care blasts Wheaton over Sinai questions

Nick Turkal, chief executive of Aurora Health Care, has sent a sharply worded letter to city officials accusing Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare of hypocrisy and of “playing fast and loose with key facts” about pending changes at Aurora Sinai Medical Center. In the two-page letter sent Thursday to Milwaukee Ald. Michael Murphy, Turkal said that Aurora planned to keep Aurora Sinai open and would announce its plans in the next 60 days. “We are respectfully requesting that you and fellow members of the Common Council and Mayor Barrett trust that Aurora will do the right thing and convey this information in encounters you might have with Wheaton leadership,” Turkal wrote. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 2/13)