A 51-year-old woman under hospice care who was featured in a Tribune article Friday died early that morning at her parents’ Lindenhurst home. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Cynthia Brocklebank, formerly of Zion, was a school bus driver who transported special-education students to school until September, when she underwent brain surgery for cancer. After her condition worsened, her parents enlisted the help of Condell Medical Center’s hospice program and moved her into a bedroom in their home Oct. 4.
One day later, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, which is involved in a contract dispute with Condell, terminated its contract with the hospice.
But late Thursday, the insurer reversed its position, stating in an e-mail that all current hospice patients would be covered “with highest benefit levels.”
