Advocate Health Care will invest $1 billion to expand access to primary care, specialty care and wellness services on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The plan calls for more locations across the South Side, more preventive programs and services, a new community hospital and more.
Highlights of the $1B investment include:
- Over $500 million is devoted to expanding outpatient care, embedded in the community.
- Establishing Advocate Health Care Neighborhood Care locations
- Expand the Imani Village outpatient clinic to add immediate care with more doctors, more services, more appointments and shorter waiting times.
- Add a mobile medicine vehicle that will provide primary care access at sites across the community – taking medical care directly to where it is needed.
- Spending $300 million to build a new hospital at the former U.S. Steel South Works site near the lakefront that will replace the current Advocate Trinity Hospital building, which is more than 115 years old.
The new hospital will be LEED certified and carbon neutral. Design will embrace environmental design considerations such as bird-safe technology to deter collisions, native and adapted plantings supportive of migratory birds, butterflies and other pollinator species, and stormwater management systems to integrate green infrastructure solutions to prevent pollutants from entering Lake Michigan and the Calumet River. To learn more, visit MyVoiceMyHealth.com.
