The 40,000-square-foot center houses an expanded emergency department with 60 treatment bays and with a surge capacity of 133 percent in case of emergency responses and mass casualty.
The Robert R. McCormick Center for Advanced Emergency Response at Rush is part of the $654 million hospital building called the Tower, which is the major component of Rush’s 10-year, $1 billion campus redevelopment project.
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