The Lake Forest Hospital Grayslake Emergency Center, which opened last month in an exurb north of Chicago, expects to see about 40,000 patients a year.
The center sees patients with broken bones, food poisoning and even pneumonia and other respiratory problems, but victims of strokes or heart attacks would be taken to a hospital.
Read the Chicago Tribune‘s report on stand-alone EDs.
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