Overview
- Advocate Health held a groundbreaking Tuesday for a five-story hospital at 8000 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive and has begun construction preparations for a facility scheduled to open in 2029.
- The state health facilities review board signed off on a $320 million plan that authorizes 36 medical/surgical beds and four ICU beds totaling 40 licensed beds, though some outlets reported a 52-bed figure.
- The hospital is the center of Advocate’s $1 billion South Side strategy that includes 10 new outpatient centers, four already open, two mobile units, and $25 million pledged for workforce development.
- The 23-acre site sits on long-vacant U.S. Steel South Works land and is positioned as an anchor for the Quantum Shore megadevelopment that will link the hospital to the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park.
- Trinity Hospital will remain open until the replacement is fully operational and Advocate must file a June 24 progress report to the state as the project moves from planning to construction.