Residents and local leaders say its time for an upgrade for the century-old Saint Anthony Hospital on the Southwest Side. One answer is to relocate the hospital and have it serve as a mixed-used development, offering retail, housing and a school.
Saint Anthony is what’s known as a “safety-net” hospital, though CEO Guy Medaglia prefers to call it a community hospital.“We formed the hospital based on community needs,” Medaglia said. “So community needs are labor and delivery, pediatrics, mental health — very important. And then of course ICU. We have an emergency department.”
Their plan is for Saint Anthony to relocate and to serve as the anchor for a mixed-use development. The hospital already bought the land and has local zoning approval. The Focal Point Community Campus, as it’s being called, would offer retail, housing and a school at what’s now a vacant lot at the intersection of 31st Street and Kedzie Avenue.“31st and Kedzie, where Saint Anthony is going to be going, is in the heart of Little Village — the capital of Mexican Midwest,” Rodriguez said.
“I’m happy for anybody that gets money,” Medaglia said. “This is not a, ‘Hey, they got money. I didn’t.’ But you know, if somebody that doesn’t sleep at night and you want to go through these 10,000 pages of the budget, you will find — no, I mean it — they’re buried in there. Whether it’s to remodel a university or a school or a theater. It’s there.”
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