Northwestern Medicine being considered for $389 million expansion - Daily Northwestern

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Kaavya Butaney, Assistant Campus Editor
January 5, 2023

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board is considering a $389 cardinal enlargement of Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, which would astir treble the hospital’s existent furniture count, according to The Real Deal.

The hold would adhd a caller 290,000-square-foot gathering with 96 caller beds, including 12 intensive attraction beds. The infirmary was experiencing precocious occupancy adjacent earlier the COVID-19 pandemic owed to the closure of adjacent Vista Medical Center West successful Waukegan.

The task besides proposes relocating and expanding the exigency department, imaging instrumentality and rehabilitation services. 

Northwestern Medicine besides requested a abstracted $163 cardinal for a 127,000-square-foot outpatient aesculapian bureau successful Bronzeville. The bureau would person specialty care, urgent care, laboratory abstraction and a diagnostic center.

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