University of Chicago Medical Center

UDF provided financing to the University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) for completion of multiple projects. First, UDFs funds were utilized to relocate 122 medical beds and 32 ICU beds from theexisting Mitchell Hospital to the 3rd and fourth floors of the recently opened University of Chicago Medical Center for Care and Discovery (CCD). The CCDs third floor provides care for patients in UChicago Medicine multi-specialty surgical units and the Burn and Complex Wound Center. The fourth floor accommodates patients of the Heart and Vascular Center. Each floor has 98 patient bedsfor intensive care, medical-surgical patients, those needing 24-hour observation and isolation cases.UDF funding was used to the construct new inpatient units and add 12 ICU beds on both of these floors in the 1.1 million-square-foot building that were deliberately left vacant during the CCDs initial construction to give the medical center more flexibility to meet the anticipated growing demand formedical care. When it first opened in 2013 the CCD was the single largest expansion in UChicago Medicine history.

The second phase of this project utilized UDF funding to transfer the outdated Labor and Delivery department from Mitchell Hospital to the more modern Comer Center for Children which is adjacent to the old site. Its location inside of Comer Children’s means newborns have immediate access to specially trained neonatologists in the new 47 bed intensive care nursery and the pediatric operating rooms, which are critical advantages for babies born there. This new section features 9 private delivery suites designed specifically for giving birth in a nurturing and supportive environment with family present, labor and delivery rooms, 2 cesarean section rooms, 5 triage rooms and 5 antenataland postnatal rooms. After birth, new mothers recover in private suites in the new Family Birth Center’s Mother and Baby Unit. The unit provides a state-of-the-art setting for mothers to heal while bonding with and nurturing their newborns. The 25,000-square foot Family Birth Center located inside Comer Children’s Hospital opened in September 2016 and brings an extremely customizable birth experience to women on the South Side and south suburbs.

Finally, UDFs investment will be used to construct a new Level 1 adult trauma center on Chicago’s south side. When completed, the trauma center will have 41 treatment stations, 12 urgent carestations, 4 resuscitation bays, and both biohazard containment and treatment facilities. This facility will meet a growing in this community where ER visits have been up 5.5% annually over the past 5 years. The new emergency department is scheduled to open in January 2018 and the adult trauma program several months later

Ground was broken in the Fall of 2016 and marked the first major step in implementing UChicago Medicine’s $269 million Get CARE plan–which will dramatically increase access to emergency, trauma and specialty care on Chicago’s South Side and includes a dedicated cancer hospital. The GetCARE plan stands for: Community—commitment to our neighbors, Access—providing equal access tocare for South Siders, Reliability—our doors are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to all whoneed care and Excellence—life-changing care for anyone who needs it. The new emergency department is scheduled to open in January 2018 and the adult trauma program several months later. The ED project is expected to cost $39 million to build.

About the Center for Care and Discovery/UChicago Medicine:

Our new hospital is a 10-story hospital for the future that serves as the new core of the campus of the University of Chicago Medicine. An architectural and technological tour de force, our new hospital provides a home for complex specialty care with a focus on cancer, gastrointestinal disease, neuroscience, advanced surgery and high-technology medical imaging.

Our new hospital contains 240 single-occupancy inpatient rooms including 52 intensive care beds; space for 28 operating rooms with leading-edge technology; and an integrated diagnostic andinterventional platform including cardiac, gastrointestinal, neurological and vascular services. The building also has two floors of expansion space that could be used for additional patient care units aswell as future leading-edge, technology-based interventional or surgical suites.

In addition to operational efficiency and architectural quality, our new hospital has the internal capacity to rapidly and economically adjust to changes in technology and medicine, and to our facility needs for decades to come.

The University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences is one of Americas leading academic medical institutions. It comprises the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division and University of Chicago Medical Center. In addition to being a non-profit teaching and research facility, it provides distinct services to the community, including the South Sides only burn unit and pediatric trauma center, a neonatal intensive care unit, comprehensive emergency departments for adults and children, and the city’s only hospital-based emergency helicopter service.