Advocate Condell to Host Open House on April 10

Advocate Condell Medical Center will welcome Lake County residents to a Community Open House to celebrate the grand opening of its new West Patient Tower and Heart and Vascular Center on April 10.

“The new West Tower has been designed to also bring the full spectrum of cardiac care to our patients. This centralized focus will allow patients to receive multiple treatment modalities within one visit,” said Condell Medical Center’s President Ann Errichetti, MD, a board-certified cardiologist.

The five-story, 175,000-square-foot West Tower is an addition to the main hospital. It will have 72 medical and surgical beds. The facility is set to open April 18.

The new tower will feature all private adult patient rooms; Advocate Condell Medical Center says it is the only Lake County hospital to offer this comfort and healing benefit. Current semi-private rooms will be converted to private rooms this summer.

The West Tower will also feature the Heart and Vascular Center, which offers cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, a Diabetes Education Center, wound care and hyperbaric therapy, vascular services, and a Congestive Heart Failure Program.

Vincent Pierri, manager of public affairs for the hospital, says the Heart and Vascular Center is a natural extension of Condell’s status as Lake County’s only Level 1 Trauma Center.  

“All the vital cardiovascular services our patients could need are available, in one building,” said Robert Kummerer, MD, a cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon at Advocate Condell. “Diagnosis, treatment, rehab and education. That’s huge in terms of patient convenience – especially since many of the conditions are interrelated.”

The new tower will also house Physical Therapy, a Sleep Disorder Center and a 1,200-square-foot interfaith Chapel built with the help of a donation from a grateful patient.

The event will be held from noon to 5 p.m. on the hospital’s campus at 801 S. Milwaukee Ave.