Fast Facts

The new expanded Loyola University Medical Center has been designed for greater patient comfort and convenience. Here are some essential details about what the future holds when the expansion is completed in phases beginning in early 2008.

The facility will contain:

• 176,000 square feet of new space and 60,000 square feet of renovated existing space
  
• A new formal, two-story hospital entrance and Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine entrance
  
• Separate elevators and corridors for patients and visitors
  
• Twelve new operating rooms – for a total of 27 – and a new staff lounge, pharmacy and frozen section laboratory for diagnosing biopsies
  
• New pre-operative and recovery areas
  
• Two new medical/surgical units with 64 private rooms for a total of 298 adult medical/surgical beds
  
• Conversion from double to single occupancy of some hospital rooms – to increase patient and family privacy – for a total of 568 licensed beds
  
• An inpatient MRI unit – eliminating the need to transport hospitalized patients
  
• A new reception area for the Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine
  
• New areas for non-invasive cardiac and peripheral vascular diagnostics
  
• Four new cardiac catheterization laboratories
  
• Three new electrophysiology laboratories
  
• Comfortable space for families to consult with physicians