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Childrens Memoiral Hospital

Chicago, IL
www.childrensmemorial.org

The new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is scheduled to open in June 2012.   This new 23 story facility will be located in Chicago's Streeterville community allowing Children’s Memorial to leverage their critically important academic and research partnerships with Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

The move to a new location means that Children’s Memorial will be able to build a hospital of 1.25 million square feet as opposed to the current hospital of 699,000 square feet.  The new facility will open with 288 family-friendly single-patient rooms with capacity to expand to 313 licensed beds. Each room is estimated to be 290 square feet. This more than doubles the space available for each bed in the existing semi-private rooms. The size of the rooms allows for more technology at the patient's bedside. The new hospital will provide for a 30% increase in faculty growth.

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership; Solomon Cordwell Buenz; and Anderson Mikos Architects Ltd. were selected to design the new, state-of-the-art Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.  Children's Memorial selected two firms, M.A. Mortenson Company and Power Construction Company, for the construction of the Hospital.