Crown Point micro-hospital set for April opening
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The University of Chicago Medicine’s first freestanding facility in Indiana is nearly complete. Our partners at The Times of Northwest Indiana report the health system plans to open its $86 million multispecialty care center and micro-hospital on April 29.
The 130,000-square-foot UChicago Medicine Crown Point, located at 10855 Virginia St., is expected to employ about 200 clinical and non-clinical staff members and host about 110,000 patient visits a year, the publication said.
Officials broke ground on the facility in August 2022. The center will include pediatric care, as well as an emergency department with a short-stay inpatient unit, comprehensive cancer center, imaging center, outpatient surgery center, laboratory services and medical offices for UChicago Medicine’s physicians and specialists.
“We’re excited to bring the forefront of medicine to people in northwest Indiana who would otherwise have to travel long distances to access highly specialized care,”Blase Polite, physician-in-chief for Northwest Indiana, told The Times. “We see this as an opportunity to establish a strong partnership with the local health system and to serve area residents, many of whom have been UChicago Medicine patients for years.
Additionally, a former Michiana Hematology Oncology office in Crown Point will relocate to the new facility.
The health system said it will begin taking appointments for the new facility on March 18.