With rapid population growth in the area, the current 50-acre site on Joliet’s east side would run out of beds “in a couple of years,” Paul Pawlak, president and chief executive of Silver Cross, told members of the Joliet City Council’s Land Use Committee.Any new hospital must be approved by the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board.
Pawlak cited many of the same population trends used by Naperville-based Edward Hospital’s attempt to justify a new facility in Plainfield. But the state board has twice denied Edward’s application. Edward Hospital recently submitted a third application.
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Silver Cross and Provena St. Joseph Medical Center, both based in Joliet, opposed the Edward project.
The new hospital would be built on 70 acres north of Interstate Highway 80 near the soon-to-be-opened ramp to Interstate Highway 355. Its current site would house an urgent care facility.