Rush Oak Park (Ill.) Hospital is planning to overhaul its emergency department in a $30 million project, Chicago Tribune reports.
Hospital President and CEO Bruce Elegant said the 50-year-old ED was intended to serve 15,000 patients annually, but Rush Oak Park sees more than 37,000 patients annually.
The proposed replacement building is a one-and-a-half story, 55,000-square-foot facility near the hospital's main building. About 20,000 square feet of the facility would house the emergency department.
Twenty-one individual treatment bays, two isolation rooms, two behavioral health rooms and one sexual abuse evaluation and treatment room would be housed in the building. The building would replace the hospital's five-story medical arts building, which was vacated two years ago, according to the report.
The hospital filed a certificate of need with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board for the project.
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