Lurie Children’s Hospital wants to pony up $51 million to add more beds to its crowded Streeterville facility in the heart of the Mag Mile in Chicago.
Plans call for adding 44 intensive-care beds to an existing 92. The specialty hospital, which treats the sickest children, also wants to add four neonatal intensive-care beds for babies, for a total of 64 NICU beds. The total number of beds would increase to 336.
Lurie, which partners with many community hospitals, said it’s had a surge of children referred by providers in northeast Illinois in particular and has had to deny transfers, according to an application Lurie filed this month with state regulators.
