Your SupportI’m writing to ask for your help in obtaining the necessary approvals for Silver Cross to proceed with their new hospital in New Lenox. The levels of deception and hyperbole demonstrated by the opponents of the new Silver Cross Hospital are amazing. To say that by moving three miles away, Silver Cross is “abandoning” Joliet without improving health care is ridiculous and untrue. As a member of the Family Advisory Board at Children’s Memorial Hospital, as well as the Steering and Design Committees for the new hospital, I can fully appreciate the great benefits of the new Silver Cross facilities. Among them are more Children’s Memorial doctors in Will County providing expanded pediatric services. Like Children’s Memorial, the old facilities at Silver Cross have been cobbled together and band-aid repaired for too long. Hodgepodge layouts cause difficulty finding one’s way, longer wait times and excessive intra-hospital transport times. These result in impeded service delivery, increased risk of infections, errors and other serious complications. In spite of these challenges, Silver Cross has managed to maintain quality, but that can’t continue. The new hospital addresses these challenges with modern design features and layouts employed at cutting-edge hospitals using methods like "Evidence Bas ed Design." More than 900 clinical studies have validated the dramatic impact thoughtful design has on consistently delivering high levels of care. This deliberative approach improves safety, increases patient and staff satisfaction and dramatically reduces costs. The growing population, combined with the current hospital’s operating challenges, makes investing in a state-of-the-art facility a “no-brainer.” It is despicable that opponents of the new hospital would pander to their constituents, hurling race cards and invoking class warfare. Pushing personal and political agendas at the expense of the community’s access to modern facilities and high quality health care is dangerously ignorant. The new Silver Cross facilities will be an enormous benefit to everyone in the community, regardless of age, race or economic status. The new facilities should be encouraged, not stonewalled. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely yours, 
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