The University of Chicago Medicine said it plans to build a $633 million, 500,000-square-foot facility dedicated to cancer care on its medical campus on the city’s South Side, representing one of the largest investments made by the academic health system for patients and the community.
The plan for Chicago’s first freestanding clinical cancer center includes the addition of 128 beds. These beds will be dedicated to patients with cancer, allowing UChicago Medicine to open other beds for patients with complex or acute care needs. This, in turn, will help address some of the capacity constraints for the medical center, where the beds are full most days of the year.
As a critical first step, UChicago Medicine this week filed a Certificate of Need request to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board seeking approval to spend money on design and site planning for the proposed cancer center. The board approved the designing process. Read more.
