Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital's $426 million expansion features five pavilions, eight operating rooms and 114 private inpatient beds, according to an article on the Chicago Tribune website.
"It will be a beautiful campus and arguably it will drive interest in this community," said Tom McAfee, hospital president. "There is no other community on the North Shore (Illinois) that has this kind of hospital in this kind of environment."
The new building is expected to use 23 percent less energy than the current facility once operations in place.
It will not have any additional beds than the current building, which was built in 1942, because more procedures are now being able to be done on an outpatient basis.
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