JOLIET, ILL. — A 560,000-square-foot replacement hospital for Silver Cross Hospital is underway 3 miles east of the existing campus in Joliet. The $400 million project is being constructed on a greenfield site at the intersection of U.S. Route 6 and the new Interstate 355 extension. RTKL served as the master-planner and designer for the project, which will include 289 all-private rooms in an environment that focuses on patient-centric care. In order to enhance the hospital’s care model, each of the hospital’s four wings will house 18 beds, as well as a large care center for two nursing teams, a smaller center for the third nursing team, and multiple medication and clean supply rooms. A state-of-the-art interventional platform will incorporate minimally invasive, image-guided surgery spaces into a single unit. The new building will house 11 operating rooms. The core of Silver Cross Hospital’s new design allows for long-term growth without sacrificing existing operational efficiencies. The six-story building will support the addition of two floors without disruption to operations. A bed tower can also be added in such a way that those patient rooms and the rooms in the tower currently underway could be equidistant to surgery and major diagnostic departments. …
