Rush University Medical Center said it plans to build a $500 million outpatient facility as part of a significant reconfiguration of its Near West Side campus.
The academic medical center said it is in the early stages of developing a master plan, which also calls for demolishing student housing to the east of its butterfly-shaped hospital along the Eisenhower Expressway and redeveloping land the organization is buying from Malcolm X College on the north side of the highway.
The new medical office will house many services, such as imaging, lab, rehabilitative therapy and interventional cardiology, that are currently spread in different buildings throughout the campus.
“Rush has long been in a leadership role in health care, and we are exploring ways we can address current and future health and educational needs,” Dr. Larry Goodman, CEO of Rush University Medical Center and president of Rush University, said in a statement. “Health care today is not about just having a leading academic medical center. We are focused on being a leading academic health system.”
Some parts of its plans, like the outpatient facility, will require the approval of state regulators. Rush will use a combination of revenue from operations, debt and fundraising to pay for the outpatient center, a spokesman said.
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