Local,
State, and U.S. members of Congress announced Wednesday, August 24th,
that an agreement regarding the conversion of the Silver Cross Hospital
in Joliet into a veterans' medical facility had been secured. This
new agreement means that the present Emergency Room at Silver Cross
Hospital's Joliet Campus, located at 1200 Maple Road in Joliet, will
become a 60,000 square-foot Outpatient Clinic for local American
veterans in the not-too-distant future.
Although not a full-service VA hospital, the new Outpatient Clinic will
offer expanded medical services to area veterans, plus save them the
time and inconvenience of driving to a clinic much further away.  Negotiations
for this new veterans' Outpatient Clinic have been in the works since
2008 when Will County and Joliet area veterans' and community groups
approached U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert with the suggestion to consider the
soon-to-be-vacated hospital for veterans' purposes. The
newly-arrived-at agreement is actually between Silver Cross Hospital
itself and the Veterans Administration.
Silver Cross Hospital officials project vacancy of their Joliet campus
Emergency Room to be sometime in March of 2012. They predict that their
new 289-bed facility and medical campus in New Lenox, located at I-355
& U.S. Route 6, will be ready to open at that time.
The Veterans Administration will start construction on the
newly-announced Outpatient Clinic soon after that vacancy date. Some of
the expanded medical services slated to be offered in the new veterans'
Outpatient Clinic will include:
The entire population of the surrounding area will be greatly
served by the addition of both the new Silver Cross facility and campus
in New Lenox ... and the expanded medical services becoming available to
our American veterans at the new Outpatient Clinic located in Joliet. * Please see a previous post written regarding Will County, IL services, businesses, and housing at: Will County, IL ... Showcasing a Great Place to Live, Pt. 1 ... and Part 2. For information regarding mortgage service and buying a home in Will County or the surrounding Chicagoland area, please contact me at: Direct: 815.277.4036 Cell/Text: 708.921.6331 Email: gene@chicagobancorp.com Skype: 630.219.1316 Website: www.genemundt.com |
