I don’t know how long there’s been a tower crane at 1009 S. Wood St. in the Medical District, but I know when I found out about it: just now. The University of Illinois Hospital is building the 200,000-suare-foot Outpatient Surgery Center and Specialty Clinics at this location, and since this is a state university, there are no City of Chicago construction permits.
Shive-Hattery Architecture & Engineering and ZGF Architects are both involved in the design, and both make their first appearances here at the B.U.C. Pepper Construction is the general contractor. Sincerest apologies to Pepper for missing their tower crane in the March survey.
Shoutout to UI Health/UIC for the fence banners that show everyone involved in this project. Sure makes my job easier. Except for that whole noticing-the-tower-crane-in-the-sky part.
You can find a wealth of information (including a construction cam!) about the Outpatient Surgery Center & Specialty Clinics below, thanks to the miracle of copy & paste. And then, of course, a few construction photos follow.
OPENING FALL 2022, the Outpatient Surgery Center & Specialty Clinics (OSC) will be a new, advanced care center at UI Health. The 200,000-square-foot facility will feature six floors of patient care space that will accommodate the increasing volume and complexity of surgical care, education, and research at the University of Illinois Hospital & Clinics and its health science partners at UIC.
The OSC will be a new home for state-of-the-art care, including:
- Preventative and diagnostic care and imaging
- Convenient, minimally invasive outpatient procedures
- Life-saving transplant surgeries
The new Outpatient Surgery Center & Specialty Clinics at UI Health is set to welcome its first patients in the fall of 2022.
Visit this page any time to check on construction progress via the live feed. Click here to view full screen version. Interior and exterior renderings of the building can be viewed here.
Latest Project Updates
- Basement and foundations have been completed!
- Structural steel erection commenced: Click to see the progress
- Next: Structural Steel erection to be completed mid-summer
- Next: Building exterior to be completed late-Fall/early-Winter
Experience. Experts. Convenience.
The Outpatient Surgery Center & Specialty clinics will be a new home for outpatient surgery procedures currently performed at the University of Illinois Hospital. The Bruno & Sallie Pasquinelli Outpatient Surgery Center, located on the third floor, will feature eight operating rooms and a 24-bay Pre-/Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), opening needed space for improvements and expansion of the existing inpatient surgery department. This new center will be connected to the main hospital by an enclosed bridge across West Taylor Street.
A number of outpatient clinics also will be calling the OSC their new home:
- The Departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, and the Division of Transplantation, will relocate from the Eye & Ear Infirmary the OSC.
- The Department of Urology will consolidate its Mile Square Health Center and Outpatient Care Center clinics into a single OSC location.
- The Department of Gastroenterology will develop a GI Lab with eight procedure rooms, six exam rooms, and 24 pre-/postoperative rooms in the new building, opening needed space for improvements and expansion of the existing inpatient GI services.
- Outpatient pharmacy services will be available.
There will be additional spaces provided to other outpatient clinics based on strategic goals and objectives of the organization.
