Many of the VA’s recommendations focus on outpatient care, in line with a national shift that began before the pandemic of patients needing less overnight care and more outpatient services, now that more procedures can be done without a hospital stay.
An original building at Hines VA Hospital in Maywood sits next to a newer hospital building, seen in the background, on Oct. 21, 2021.
Hines sits on a nearly 150-acre campus next to Loyola University Medical Center. The VA is also recommending building a new outpatient facility at Jesse Brown. [Most read] Metra to add trains to BNSF line between Aurora and Chicago to ‘restore service to near pre-pandemic levels’“The current Hines campus has ongoing facility challenges, high operating and maintenance costs, and several buildings that do not meet modern health care standards,” according to the report released this week.
The VA did not include a cost for replacing the Hines facility or building a new outpatient facility at Jesse Brown in its report. It has not yet been decided how many beds the new Hines facility might have, Doelling said.
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