Advocate Condell hosts open house 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 Sunday, April 10.

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

Visitors will get a chance to preview the state-of-art tower, which features all private adult patient rooms, making Advocate Condell Medical Center the only Lake County hospital to offer this comfort and healing benefit. Current semi-private rooms will be converted to private rooms this summer.

Additionally, the West Tower's anchor is 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. The Heart and Vascular Center is a natural extension of Advocate Condell's status as Lake County's only Level 1 Trauma Center and designation as a Certified Chest Pain Center along with our open heart surgery program.

“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 herself.

“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 tower also will 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 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.