What happened to you at a UHS hospital in Illinois was not okay.

Roosevelt Road on the West Side. Church Street in Champaign. Irving Park Road out in Streamwood, Forest Park, Ridgeway Avenue. Five psychiatric hospitals, one owner: Universal Health Services, Inc., of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, running them through a subsidiary called UHS of Delaware, Inc. Those two names are on the Cook County complaints about Hartgrove Hospital, fifteen of them so far, and UHS's own filing with the SEC this August says it has been sued by former patients "spanning decades" over abuse at its facilities. If you were a patient at any of the five, as a kid or as an adult, and someone on staff or someone the staff should have been watching crossed a line, this is about you. Whichever building it was.

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You weren't at Hartgrove. You were at Streamwood, or Riveredge, or Garfield Park. The Jane Doe 4 complaint says the same UHS regional managers oversaw all five Illinois hospitals, and abuse reports were supposed to go up the same chain to King of Prussia. Same company, same theory. Pick your building in the first question.
The year is a blur. Late nineties, maybe, or it could have been closer to 2010, and you'd have to dig out old records to say for certain. Don't bother yet. The counselor charged in Cook County last December is accused of things going back to 1996, so nobody on the intake side is going to blink at an old date, and Illinois, as it happens, cares far more about when you were born than about when it happened. There's a section further down on exactly that.
It was another patient, not staff. That was the Pavilion case exactly, a 16-year-old put next door to a 13-year-old, and a Champaign County jury put the responsibility on the hospital, not the boy.
You told a nurse or a tech and they wrote it down as something else, or told you it was your medication. The Jane Doe 4 complaint describes children at Hartgrove being told they were lying and, in one account from 1998, sedated and put in isolation after reporting. Those are allegations. They are also the pattern lawyers are pleading.
You were an adult patient. The clock is shorter and a lawyer needs to look at when it started for you. Twenty minutes tells you where you are on it.
You're a parent, a sibling, a former staff member who saw something. Reach out anyway. Choose 'I'm asking for someone else' and the questions adjust.

The UHS Illinois record: the Pavilion verdict, the Hartgrove complaints, the charges, and what UHS told investors, in order

None of what follows is ours. It was written by a Champaign County jury and its judge, by former patients and their lawyers in the Circuit Court of Cook County, by a federal judge, by the Cook County State's Attorney, and by Universal Health Services itself in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Every line links to where it came from. Where a complaint is the source it is an allegation and we say so. And because this page covers five hospitals under one owner, one thing said plainly: the complaints and findings below name Hartgrove Hospital and The Pavilion. Streamwood, Riveredge and Garfield Park are on the quiz because the same company owned them in the same years, and because the Jane Doe 4 complaint pleads that the same UHS managers supervised all five. No separate abuse record on Streamwood, Riveredge or Garfield Park is cited here.

March 28, 2024

A Champaign County jury in case No. 2021 L 000176, Confidential v. The Pavilion Foundation, returned $535 million: $60 million for what was done to a 13-year-old girl on the adolescent unit of The Pavilion in December 2020, and $475 million to punish the hospital. A 16-year-old patient had been placed in the room next to hers; he and another boy covered the unit's cameras with toothpaste 75 minutes before the attack and nobody cleaned them in time. Judge Jason Bohm presided. The defendant was UHS's Illinois subsidiary, The Pavilion Foundation, not Universal Health Services, Inc. itself. Missouri Lawyers Media, verdict report.

October 2, 2024

Healthcare Dive reported UHS's own securities disclosures: a $360 million Virginia verdict for three former patients of its Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, with about 40 more plaintiffs pending, on top of the Pavilion judgment, which UHS had called "unexpected and is unprecedented for a single-plaintiff injury case." The two judgments together came to $895 million; UHS had appealed the Pavilion amount in August and told investors it was "uncertain as to the ultimate financial exposure." A company's own words about its own facilities. Healthcare Dive.

October 10, 2024

Judge Bohm cut the Pavilion punitive award from $475 million to $120 million, left the $60 million in compensatory damages alone, and refused the hospital a new trial. That left $180 million standing against the Champaign hospital. The News-Gazette.

December 12, 2024

More than 100 former minor patients of Hartgrove Hospital sued Universal Health Services over what their lawyers called systemic abuse, including sexual assault, of patients as young as 8. The complaint alleges children were made to perform sexual acts on other minors under the name of therapy and were punished or ignored when they reported it. Hartgrove's statement: it takes the allegations seriously, denies them, and intends to defend the case vigorously. Allegations, every one. FOX 32 Chicago.

November 12, 2025

Jane Doe 4, born in 1985, filed her Complaint at Law in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Law Division, No. 2025 L 014133, against UHS of Hartgrove, Inc., UHS of Delaware, Inc., Universal Health Services, Inc. and the companies that owned Hartgrove before 1999. She says she was about 16 when a Hartgrove counselor abused her in 2002. The complaint pleads that Hartgrove learned in 2000 and 2001 that girls on the 2 South unit were reporting male counselors; that UHS of Delaware hired Hartgrove's CEO, COO and CFO from King of Prussia; that abuse allegations were to be reported up to UHS of Delaware's risk management and vice presidents; and that Illinois-based UHS regional directors oversaw Hartgrove, Streamwood, Riveredge, Garfield Park and Pavilion together. There's a list of Chicago police reports in it too, 2022 through 2024, all about Hartgrove patients; in one, from April 2024, a former patient told police a staff member had sexually assaulted her while she was sedated. Fourteen counts in all, negligence at one end and civil conspiracy at the other, and every one of those statements is an allegation that has not been proved. Complaint at Law, Jane Doe 4 v. UHS of Hartgrove, Inc. et al. (Cook County; on RECAP as Exhibit A to the removal).

December 1, 2025

The Cook County State's Attorney charged Edmund Rivers, 68, a mental health counselor at Hartgrove from 1993 to 2004, with three counts of criminal sexual assault and two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault. Five boys, aged 7 to 14 at the time, between 1996 and 2004, in patient rooms, a seclusion room, a cafeteria bathroom and a gym equipment room, according to the release. "Several of the victims came forward and contacted police after learning about a civil lawsuit filed against Hargrove Hospital for a pattern of abuse by its staff," the office wrote. A judge ordered him detained. He is charged, not convicted, and presumed innocent. Cook County State's Attorney.

February 17, 2026

Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman of the federal court in Chicago sent Jane Doe 4's case back to Cook County. UHS had removed it two days after filing, before a summons could even issue, which the judge called "one of the most egregious 'snap removal' abuses of the Forum Defendant Rule that this Court has encountered," done "seemingly to stymie a sweep order issued by the Circuit Court of Cook County." Her opinion lists the fourteen other Hartgrove cases already in the Law Division, lead case John Doe 1 v. UHS of Hartgrove, No. 2024 L 013843, and says the sweep order pulls "any future cases to be filed against these Defendants" into one consolidated proceeding. Doe 4 v. UHS of Delaware, Inc., No. 25-cv-14026 (N.D. Ill.), memorandum opinion.

August 7, 2026

Universal Health Services filed its quarterly report for the period ending June 30, 2026. Note 6, Commitments and Contingencies: "We have received lawsuits in various jurisdictions on behalf of numerous former patients spanning decades claiming to be the victims of sexual assaults while patients at our facilities. Many of these lawsuits have been brought in conjunction with various states extending their statute of limitations." The same note puts its reserve for self-insured liability claims at $499 million, says its commercial coverage since March 2025 excludes "incidents involving sexual molestation or abuse," and reports that UHS of Delaware "remains a defendant with respect to all remaining plaintiffs" in the Virginia Cumberland cases even after the parent was let out. Quarterly net revenues: $4.64 billion. UHS Form 10-Q, quarter ended June 30, 2026 (SEC EDGAR).

We checked this on September 13, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from August 7, 2026. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in a UHS Illinois lawsuit

Two companies, and the hospital's own licensee. Universal Health Services, Inc., the parent in King of Prussia, and UHS of Delaware, Inc., the subsidiary that the Jane Doe 4 complaint says actually hired the Illinois CEOs, ran the compliance hotline and received the abuse reports. Both are named defendants in Cook County today, alongside UHS of Hartgrove, Inc., which holds the Hartgrove licence. The theory is the plain one. A counselor who abuses a child on a locked unit answers for himself. A company that hired him, put him alone with children, was told in 2000 and 2001 that counselors on that unit were being reported, and kept the same structure in place, answers for what it allowed. That is what the complaints allege. UHS denies it and has not admitted liability in any of them.

Why both names matter. In Virginia, the judge let the parent out of the first Cumberland trial and kept UHS of Delaware in; UHS's own August 2026 filing says UHS of Delaware is still a defendant for every remaining Cumberland plaintiff, and on August 17, 2026, more than 40 of those plaintiffs settled for an amount that was not disclosed. In Illinois the lawyers have named both from the start, and the pre-1999 owners of Hartgrove as well. Which entity ends up paying is a lawyer's problem. What matters to you is that the company behind all five Illinois hospitals is solvent, reports $4.64 billion a quarter, and has settled before.

Where you were sorts the intake, not the case. Hartgrove has its own page on this site, with the Rivers charges and the fifteen Cook County cases laid out. The Pavilion has one too, with the verdict. Streamwood, Riveredge and Garfield Park don't, because no filed complaint or finding about any of them has been captured in the public record we cite. They are on this page because UHS ran them and, the complaint says, ran them through the same people. Pick the building in the first question and the survivor who calls you knows where to start.

Your deadline: the Illinois statute of limitations for sexual abuse at a UHS hospital

Under 18 at the time? Illinois took the deadline off, as of January 1, 2014. The section that did it, 13-202.2(f) of the Code of Civil Procedure, says a childhood sexual abuse action "may be commenced at any time," and then there's a catch, a real one: that open door only reaches claims that hadn't already run out under the old law by that date. That is why the questions ask your birth year. Born in 1983 or later and, in practice, the door is open on age alone. Born before that and it turns on when you understood what the abuse did to you (subsection (b) gives 20 years from that discovery) and on whether the hospital or the abuser kept you from knowing (subsection (d-1) stops the clock during threats, intimidation, manipulation, fraudulent concealment or fraud). Jane Doe 4 was born in 1985 and her lawyers filed anyway. A lawyer decides, not a calendar.

If you were an adult patient, the clock is shorter. Illinois gives two years for most injury claims, section 13-202, and a lawyer will need to look at when the clock started for you, which is not always the day it happened. That is a conversation, not a form. Say '18 or older' in the questions and the person who calls you will know to ask.

No cap. Illinois has no ceiling on what a jury can award against a private hospital for pain and suffering, which is why $535 million was possible in Champaign and why UHS files reserves in the hundreds of millions. That is not a promise about your case. It is a description of the rules the case would be tried under.

Your situation still qualifies even if

Nobody in your family knows. Nobody at the hospital wrote it down, or they wrote down something else.
You were told it was your imagination, or your medication. One of the Chicago police reports the complaint lists is from a girl who tried to tell staff for three days and "no one believed her."
You think a psychiatric admission makes you a bad witness. The girl in the Pavilion case was a psychiatric patient. Twelve jurors believed her.
You were only there a few days. One of the police reports the complaint lists came from a five-day stay.
It was years ago and you've built a life since. The charged conduct at Hartgrove runs back to 1996.
You live in Indiana or Wisconsin now, or anywhere else. The case sits in Illinois and you don't need to.

Facilities covered

Hartgrove Behavioral Health System, also called Hartgrove Hospital, 5730 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago: owned by UHS since the March 1999 asset purchase pleaded in the complaints, children, adolescents and adults; its own page is /hartgrove-hospital-survivors. The Pavilion Behavioral Health System, 809 West Church Street, Champaign, run by UHS's subsidiary The Pavilion Foundation: its own page is /pavilion-behavioral-health-survivors. Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System, 1400 East Irving Park Road, Streamwood, children from age 3, adolescents and adults. Riveredge Hospital, 8311 West Roosevelt Road, Forest Park, children, adolescents and adults. Garfield Park Behavioral Hospital, 520 North Ridgeway Avenue, Chicago, children and adolescents ages 3 to 17. Those last three are listed because UHS's 2026 subsidiary list names them and the Jane Doe 4 complaint pleads they were run by the same regional managers as Hartgrove, and for no other reason. A UHS program in Illinois not named here? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

Questions people are asking

Can I sue Universal Health Services for abuse at one of its Illinois hospitals?

Former Hartgrove patients already have: Universal Health Services, Inc. and UHS of Delaware, Inc. are named defendants in Jane Doe 4's Cook County complaint and the related cases, and a sweep order sends every new case against those defendants into one consolidated proceeding. Whether you can depends mostly on your birth year and when it happened, which is what the questions sort out. Asking is free.

How much does a sexual abuse lawyer cost?

Here, nothing. Every case is on contingency. The lawyer is paid only out of what is recovered, and if nothing is recovered you owe nothing. Not for the call, not for the review, not for the case.

Is there a UHS or Hartgrove settlement I can apply to?

No. Nothing in Illinois has settled with a fund or a deadline; the Cook County cases are pending, and the Pavilion case settled for one plaintiff, privately. The Virginia Cumberland cases settled in August 2026 for an undisclosed amount, but that was Virginia and those plaintiffs. A new Illinois case is filed on its own, in court. If you've already signed with a lawyer, say so on the call and nobody wastes your time.

I was at Streamwood, not Hartgrove. Does this cover me?

Streamwood is on the quiz because UHS owns it and the Hartgrove complaint pleads the same regional managers ran it. We have not found a filed complaint or public finding about Streamwood itself, and we won't pretend otherwise. Pick it in the first question and a lawyer looks at your facts as your facts.

Has anyone been convicted?

Not in Illinois, as of this writing. Edmund Rivers, who was a counselor at Hartgrove, has been charged (December 1, 2025) and a judge ordered him held while the case goes forward, but charged is all he is; he's presumed innocent until a jury says otherwise. And the Pavilion verdict? Civil. A jury found the hospital negligent. Nobody was criminally tried in that one.

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Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer

I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.

What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.

I'm not a lawyer. I read what you send, I call you once, on your terms, and nothing gets filed unless you say so. Ask sooner than I did.

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