Burr Ridge Center For Health Expands

Starting Aug. 1, the Loyola Center for Health in Burr Ridge will add primary care and pediatrics to its list of services. Loyola's will relocate to Burr Ridge, bringing along the specialities of adolescent medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, pediatric urology and psychiatry.

"Part of [the reason] was just size. We wouldn't have been able to provide the same scope of services [in Darien] that we can offer in Burr Ridge," said Cheryl White, administrative director of primary care and ambulatory nursing at Loyola.

Earlier this year, Loyola opened a 100,000-square-foot facility at 6800 North Frontage Road in Burr Ridge. 

White said Loyola conducted community outreach and distributed surveys in order to find out what the community wanted in terms of services. 

According to White, the integration of the two facilities has been in the works since the Burr Ridge center opened in early March. The center, which expects to see 150,000 patients this year, already houses specialties such as neurology and orthopedics. It is the largest academic medical center outpatient facility in the Chicago suburbs.

"We were looking at the market and considering where we need to be, what services are offered in other places. We've been invested in going to one place to get radiology, immediate care, primary care," said White. "The Burr Ridge site has a lot of specialities. Now we're going to add primary care, and all those things can work together."

About 20 staff members, including five to six doctors will shift from Darien to Burr Ridge, giving patients access to more than 20 specialties, expanded imaging, lab testing and rehabilitation services.