Board of Directors Vote to Shut Down Jill’s House

Last Thursday, the Board of Directors of Jill’s House voted to shut the organization down. Jill’s House is a nonprofit home with over 25 rooms for cancer patients to live during treatment. The organization opened in 2008 and has been a home to over 600 patients. It will be closing on December 31, the same day that the IU Health Proton Therapy Center is closing. IU health officials have said the facility is closing due to financial deficit. Jill’s House was founded by the parents of Jill Behrman, who was abducted in 2000 while bike riding near her home. Behrman’s parents created the nonprofit with the parents of Steven Howard, who died of cancer at the age of 19. IU announced earlier this month that it was not financially viable to continue to operate the Proton Therapy Center.