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:
- Physical Therapy
- Rehabilitation
- Retinal Imaging
- Women's Health
- Geriatrics
- Home-Based Primary Care
- Lab
- Mental Health/Social Work
- Nutrition
- More
The entire population of the surrounding area will be more 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.
Gene Mundt, Sr. Vice President
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