OSF HealthCare plans to build a new hospital in Illinois with wide range of services
OTTAWA - OSF HealthCare has announced plans to build a new hospital in Ottawa to replace OSF HealthCare Saint Elizabeth Medical Center.
The new hospital will be built across the street from the existing facility, on a vacant 31-acre plot of land owned by OSF. The current hospital was built in the early 1970s and is at the end of its useful life, according to a news release issued by OSF Healthcare.
OSF will file a Certificate of Need application with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board by the end of March, with approval for the new facility anticipated by the end of 2024. A tentative opening date for the new facility is expected in late 2027.
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The new hospital will have a 26-bed inpatient behavioral health unit, 12 medical/surgical beds, and a state-of-the-art surgery suite, emergency services, diagnostic imaging, and robust outpatient care services. Primary and specialty care clinics, including cardiovascular care, general surgery and OB/GYN, will continue to provide services in Ottawa.
With a total investment of more than $180 million into Illinois Valley, OSF HealthCare says it plans to transform and sustain evolving health care along the entire Interstate-80 corridor.
OSF Saint Elizabeth-Peru Campus, the former St. Margaret’s Health – Peru which closed in January 2023, will serve as the hub hospital within the I-80 corridor and provide a full range of inpatient and outpatient services including 45 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU rooms, 11 obstetric rooms to support the regional birthing center, surgery and procedure rooms, emergency services, diagnostic imaging and outpatient care services.
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