OSF HealthCare plans to to file a certificate-of-need application with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board to build a new hospital in Ottawa, Ill.
The hospital will replace the Peoria, Ill.-based system's current one in Ottawa. It will include a 26-bed inpatient behavioral health unit, 12 medical/surgical beds, a surgery suite, emergency services, diagnostic imaging and outpatient services.
"Over the past decade, OSF HealthCare has sustained and grown quality healthcare services in and around Ottawa," August Querciagrossa, CEO of OSF's western region, said in a March 6 news release. "When the new hospital is built, it will be reimagined as levels and types of services offered are realigned throughout the I-80 corridor. Our intent across all our I-80 communities is to ensure current and future generations have access to care locally."
Due to its centralized location, OSF Saint Elizabeth-Peru will serve as the hub hospital within the I-80 corridor and support a full range of inpatient and outpatient services. OSF acquired the shuttered hospital last year and plans to reopen it April 7.
OSF aims to submit the CON application for the new Ottawa hospital by the end of March with approval for the new facility anticipated by the end of 2024. The hospital is part of a $180 million investment OSF will make across Illinois.
A tentative opening date is expected in late 2027.