Transitional Hospitals Corporation (now Kindred Healthcare) purchased the old Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical Center branch on North Sheridan Road to convert it to a sub~acute care facility.

F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen renovated the 90,000 sf. building on a fast-track schedule of eight months to reach substantial completion. The first floor is comprised of the lobby, administrative offices, kitchen and cafeteria, physical therapy, radiology, dialysis, beauty shop, gift shop, and a treatment room where patients go for intake analysis prior to admittance. The second and third floors house the intensive care unit with six rooms and critical care areas containing 78 private and semi~private rooms (103 total beds). The fourth floor contains additional offices, medical records and a pharmacy.

F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen has completed two projects at Loyola University Medical Center: 1 - renovation of the OB/GYN floor (Phases One and Two) in the Russo Surgical Pavilion, and 2 - furnishing and installing a new Air Handling Unit to heat and cool the newly renovated areas.

The OB/GYN Renovation was performed in two phases to allow half of the existing facility to remain in operation while the other half was under construction. The work involved demolition of 10,300 sf. of existing OB/GYN facilities including classrooms, conference rooms, nurses’ stations and offices, doctors’ lounge, locker rooms, and special care and recovery rooms. The whole area was then remodeled into two labor/delivery rooms, a six bed ICU suite, isolation room, triage room, and support areas (storage, toilet rooms, nurses’ stations, etc.).

F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen was also awarded Phase Three of the OB/GYN project which consisted of renovating an additional 2,400 sf. in the OB/GYN Department including two operating rooms, one recovery suite, one labor-delivery room, scrub room, locker room, etc.

The Cook County Hospital MRI facility houses multiple MRI and Cat scan equipment rooms. This addition also accommodates check in points for the adjacent Fantus Clinic building and well as exam rooms and administration offices. The MRI rooms are constructed with copper enclosures to prohibit the transfer of magnetic force to ferrous metals. Room finishes were installed without the use of metal construction products including drywall ceilings, soffits, non-ferrous light fixture assemblies, flooring etc.