by Jon Asplund, Crains Chicago Business
Rush University System for Health is making another move to enhance cancer treatment in an outpatient setting with plans to replace its Lisle cancer center.
The new 55,000-square-foot center, submitted for approval to the Illinois Health Facilities & Services Review Board, would offer more cancer treatment services than Rush’s current Lisle location, the system said in a statement.
The new center would update technology in diagnostic breast imaging and diagnostic imaging and would provide services including infusion therapy, radiation therapy, supportive oncology, lab services, pharmacy and urgent cancer care.
The expansion would streamline access to care and extend the continuum of cancer treatment available in the western suburbs, the statement said.
The news follows the Jan. 13 opening of its 10-story, $450 million outpatient facility in Chicago at 1520 W. Harrison St.
The Joan & Paul Rubschlager Building provides complex outpatient care for cancer, neuroscience and digestive diseases. It is a 500,000-square-foot center that Rush expects will care for 127,000 patients by 2027, a nearly 50% increase over current numbers.
Last year, Rush expanded in the opposite direction, announcing an outpatient center in Munster, Ind. The system already collaborated with Franciscan Health hospitals in northwest Indiana on provided thoracic surgery services and Midwest Orthopedics at Rush provides orthopedic care there.
"We believe the future of health care will be found in strong collaborations with referring physicians, new locations and innovative partnerships that make it convenient for people living and working in the region to receive the most coordinated, advanced health care available,” Dr. Paul Casey, Rush chief medical officer at Rush University Medical Center, said in the statement.
“RUSH exists to serve our community and we are deeply committed to extending our brand of excellence and highest quality care across Chicagoland and beyond,” Casey said in the statement.
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