Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is planning a sweeping, $645 million project to modernize the hospital.
, which is a facility for outpatient care, which is care that does not require an overnight hospital stay, according to an application the hospital filed with the State Health Facilities and Services Review Board.
Overall, the project would mean 332,780 square feet of new construction, with completion in 2030. Once it’s finished, the hospital would have 326 licensed, staffed beds, said hospital president Susan Nordstrom Lopez. Now, the hospital has 397 licensed beds, but only about 304 are staffed, meaning only 304 are able to be used, she said.The state review board must approve the project before it can proceed. The board is scheduled to consider the project at its June 7 meeting.
The new bed tower would house inpatient and intensive care unit beds as well as labor and delivery and neonatal intensive care unit beds. Most of the hospital’s inpatient beds would be moved to the new bed tower.The expansion of the Center for Advanced Care would include a new breast center with mammography and ultrasound services that are now in a leased medical office building. It would also expand outpatient cancer services, as well as relocate and modernize operating rooms.
A number of doctors and local health care leaders have already expressed their support for the project, writing letters to the state review board endorsing it. “Five decades of advancements in medicine bring with it the need for additional space and modernization in order to accommodate the significant increase in technology,” Fantus wrote. He added that, “The recent pandemic illustrates how semiprivate patient rooms no longer have a place in the delivery of modern health care.”
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