About $100 million of that increased cost is due to “hyperinflation” since the project was announced
, according to an application filed by University of Chicago Medicine to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board. The reduction in the number of beds “was a direct response to managing the escalated cost of the overall project,” according to the application.
“Part of it is a response to where will cancer care go in the future,” Capicchioni said. “It pulls back on the number of inpatient beds but leaves the future open for the opportunity to really address the needs of the patients and where medicine is going. Cancer care is changing very quickly, so we’re trying to build a building that will last for many years.”
University of Chicago Medicine leaders continue to envision the new cancer hospital as a state-of-the-art facility that will give South Side residents greater access to cancer care while attracting patients from across the region. It is also meant to help take pressure off of the main hospital, which is often running at or nearly at capacity for its staffed beds, meaning the hospital must frequently say no to community hospitals’ requests to transfer patients there.
Yet South Siders can lack access to care, with many community hospitals on the South Side under strain. About 56% of South Side residents leave the area for health care, and 67% of cancer patients needing overnight care get it elsewhere, according to the health system.
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