After months of community input, University of Chicago Medicine submitted an application to state regulators, updating its original plans to build an $815 million standalone cancer hospital, Chicago Sun-Times reported Feb. 15.
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board is expected to make a decision on the application this month, with UChicago Medicine hoping to begin construction on the 575,000-square-foot Hyde Park hospital in the second half of the year.
The hospital would consolidate services that are spread across at least five buildings on the Hyde Park campus, according to the report. It will include 80 inpatient beds, including 64 medical-surgical beds and a 16-bed intensive care unit, infusion therapy with private rooms grouped by cancer type, cancer imaging suite, multidisciplinary breast center and clinical trial spaces.
UChicago Medicine expects the hospital to see about 200,000 outpatient visits and 5,000 inpatient admissions annually. The hospital is projected to begin accepting patients in 2027.
"We have an opportunity to build a world-class facility for our patients and the community that propels UChicago Medicine to become the premier destination for comprehensive cancer care," Tom Jackiewicz, president of the UChicago Medicine health system, said in a news release. "We will focus on a full-service patient and family experience offering a multidisciplinary approach, personalized therapies and clinical trials, as well as cancer prevention, screening and diagnosis, healthy lifestyle classes and more."