Federal officials and Silver Cross Hospital are "very close" to finalizing a deal that would bring a veteran clinic to the Silver Cross site, according to a hospital administrator.
Silver Cross will vacate 1200 Maple Road in February 2012 to move to a new complex in New Lenox. Federal officials have pushed to relocate its Joliet veterans clinic so it could provide more services to Will County's growing population of veterans.
The deal includes the federal government's purchasing of about 60,000 square feet of the 700,000-square-foot hospital. The veterans clinic would occupy the first two floors of the emergency unit on the complex's south side. The emergency unit is the newest part of the six-floor complex, which was built in 1919 and has been expanded about 10 times.
Joliet has one of six Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics in the Chicago area, but officials said the facility, at 2000 Glenwood Avenue, is too small and cannot house many of the services that Will County's 45,000 veterans need. Often, veterans are sent to Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital near Maywood, which is about 40 miles from Joliet.
The ultimate goal for the Joliet clinic would be to make it a multipurpose veterans center and rehabilitation clinic beginning in 2012.
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