Expansion, Upgrades Planned for Good Shepherd Hospital

Advocate Health officials are planning upgrades to its 34-year-old Advocate Good Shepherd Good Hospital, according to the Northwest Herald.

The $247 million expansion would need to be approved by the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board and would include more private rooms,  hospital beds and upgrades to medical departments, according to the article. 

The announcement comes at a time when Centegra Health System is moving forward with plans for a new five-story, 128-bed hospital at the Centegra Health Bridge campus on Haligus and Algonquin Road. The hospital hopes to start construction in October, according to Huntley Patch. 

The approximately 375,000 square feet hospital will include 100 medical surgical beds, an eight‐bed intensive care unit, a full‐service emergency department with a Level II trauma center, Level II special care nursery, a helipad for transporting critical need patients and a dedicated women's center.