New Lenox, Ill.-based Silver Cross Health System plans to build an ambulatory surgery center on its hospital campus in New Lenox, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Here are five key notes:
1. Silver Cross estimates the center will cost nearly $11.1 million.
2. The center will offer procedures including colonoscopies, cataract surgeries and upper gastrointestinal endoscopies.
3. Last week, Silver Cross sent its plans to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board. Silver Cross needs to obtain state approval prior to opening the center.
4. The health system plans to build an outpatient center equipped with three operating rooms rather than expanding its hospital because the additional hospital operating rooms would have cost nearly $30 million.
5. If approved, Silver Cross plans to sell up to 49 percent of the surgery center's ownership to physicians.
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