State Board Votes Down Competing Emergency Centers
Both Riverside Medical Center and Silver Cross Hospital received an intent to deny their competing projects from the state, but one of the two medical organizations plans to continue pursuing its proposal.
Plans for two competing proposals to build a freestanding emergency center in Frankfort were slowed, if not completely stopped, by two state review board votes on Tuesday. The proposals, which were submitted by Riverside Medical Center, of Kankakee, and Silver Cross Hospital, of New Lenox, were each issued an intent to deny at a Feb. 5 meeting of the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board. Riverside submitted a project application to the review board on Nov. 9, requesting to build a 10,000-square-foot, $10.3 million facility at the corner of Steger and La Grange Roads. Silver Cross submitted its application less than two weeks later, seeking approval for an $8.8 million emergency center that would be the same size as …
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6:25 pm on Saturday, February 9, 2013
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