Same Dean, same plan.
This a 5 or 10 year plan. If you look back at the previous 10 year plans for the university and the hospital in recent decades, they've basically built everything, or more, that they planned.
Main change would be addition of trauma center--and all the other facilities they have built offsite (south loop, orland park, silver cross, etc.)
The university is big on planning. These things don't just come out of nowhere. This was a huge consultant project and presented publicly at an industry conference with the head of UChicago Medicine's space planning--with approval from hospital management.
The university wants pritzker and the bsd to be in the top 5 nationally--same level as law school and business school--and it is willing to spend to make it happen.
Certain things have to be phased in. First Center for Care and Discovery had to open then other things could begin to fall into place. Wyler has already been vacated for demolition. Mitchell is still in use for a bit; the new ER / trauma center needs to open first before old can be decommissioned, etc.
Last edited by UChicagoLand; Jan 5, 2016 at 7:02 PM.
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