UCMC also announced it will build a new adult emergency department on South Cottage Grove Avenue, connected to the Center for Care and Discovery, a new UCMC hospital that was opened in 2013, via underground tunnel. Holy Cross will also provide trauma care specialists, including emergency department physicians, anesthesiologists, and nursing staff, as well as trauma care support specialists.īoth organizations have significant experience in trauma care, as the UCMC operates the Comer children’s trauma center in Hyde Park and Sinai Health Systems operates the trauma center at Mount Sinai Hospital on the West Side. UCMC will help pay for the the facility improvements, expected to cost $40 million, and provide specialists in general trauma urologists and neurological, orthopaedic, and plastic surgeons, among other subspecialties. The multi-million-dollar project will renovate and expand the emergency center at Holy Cross Hospital, located at West 68th Street and South California Avenue, into a Level I adult trauma center, according to an e-mail sent to faculty, staff, and students in the Biological Sciences Division and University of Chicago Medicine. The project comes after years of increasing activism by community members and students. The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) and Sinai Health System announced a joint partnership to establish a level 1 adult trauma center on the South Side Thursday night.
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