Our new location

• The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago will be located at 225 E. Chicago Avenue, just west of the new Prentice Women's Hospital between Chicago Avenue and Superior Street.
• Building the new hospital in Chicago's Streeterville community will allow us to leverage our critically important academic and research partnerships with Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

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Structure/site logistics

• The available space means we can build a hospital of 1.25 million square feet, a significant increase over our current hospital's 699,000 square feet.
• We plan to open with 288 licensed family-friendly single-patient rooms with capacity to expand to 313 licensed beds.We currently operate with 250 beds.
• Each room will be an estimated 290 square feet. This more than doubles the space currently available for each bed in our existing semi-private rooms.
• The size of the rooms allows for more technology at the patient's bedside.
• The new hospital will provide for a 30% increase in faculty growth.

Partnership with Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine

• Children's Memorial is the pediatric training site for Feinberg School of Medicine and one of the most sought after pediatric residency programs in the country.
• This proximity is critical to recruiting top physicians, scientists and caregivers and will allow our physicians to collaborate even more effectively with other colleagues.
• This location offers us important opportunities for enhanced academic and research collaboration Resulting collaboration will provide patients with access to the newest treatments, based on state-of-the-art research discoveries and clinical advances.

Partnership with Northwestern Memorial Hospital

• The hospital's new location will allow for improved transitional care of children with congenital conditions and chronic illnesses into adulthood.
• It enables us to build on our already existing partnership with Northwestern's Prentice Women's Hospital:
  • Children's Memorial's pediatric neonatologists currently manage and staff the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Prentice Women's Hospital.
  • Closer proximity to the new hospital's NICU will eliminate the need for ambulance transport between the two institutions and allow mothers to remain near their infants.
  • The location will allow mothers giving birth at Prentice Women's Hospital to remain with newborns who need to be transferred to the hospital.