New immediate care, outpatient and South Asian cardiac center opens in Hoffman Estates

Advocate Health Care on Monday opened a new immediate care and outpatient center, which also will provide an additional location for the company’s South Asian Cardiovascular Center.

The new facility, at 4847 Hoffman Blvd. near the intersection of Route 59 and Interstate 90, will offer such services as primary and immediate care, cardiology, pediatric specialty care, general surgery, urogynecology, rehabilitation, laboratory, mammogram screenings, X-ray and ultrasound.

“Advocate Health Care is excited to expand care to patients in this area,” said Dr. Jacqueline Ivey-Brown, chief medical officer for Advocate Medical Group’s north Illinois area, in a statement. “This new clinic will allow patients to access high-quality care through a number of services closer to home.”

Advocate’s first South Asian Cardiovascular Center opened in 2012 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, before expanding to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital and the Western suburbs. Within the next few weeks, the new Hoffman Estates clinic will begin offering the same services to patients in the Northwest suburbs.

These facilities aim to provide compassionate and culturally sensitive care to a population at greater risk for heart disease. While South Asians represent about 25% of the world’s population, they are about 60% of the world’s heart disease patients — including heart attacks and strokes — according to the American College of Cardiology.

Including prevention-aimed community education, the new center will offer these patients comprehensive heart care.

“Being from a South Asian background, this is my opportunity to give back to my community,” said Dr. Namra Butt, Advocate Medical Group cardiologist at the clinic, in a statement. “As a part of the community, I know the language, culture and the barriers involved when discussing a healthy lifestyle or reducing heart health risk factors. I look forward to connecting with my community to improve their health and well-being.”

Hoffman Estates Mayor Bill McLeod said with a growing and aging population in the area, village officials recognized the need for both the general and specific services of the new outpatient center.

“There’s a need out there for more medical facilities everywhere,” he added. “We have a large South Asian population. That fills another important need.”

The new clinic is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, visit care.advocatehealth.com or call (847) 685-4646.