The Morris Hospital, founded in 1906 by four physicians, is licensed to operate an 89-bed acute care hospital primarily serving nineteen communities surrounding Morris, IL and is the only hospital in Grundy County. The Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient services including medical, surgical, emergency, intensive care, obstetrics, and pediatrics. The Hospital is designated as a Level II Obstetrical Unit with Special Care Nursery and a Level II Trauma Center, accredited as stroke ready and recognized by the State of Illinois as an Emergency Department Approved for Pediatrics. The Hospital has undergone numerous expansions and renovations in its 100 plus year existence including a $7,500,000 upgrade in 2000 financed by UIRVDA to create birthing suites, enhanced Intensive Care Unit and the modernization of medical surgical patient rooms. The Hospital owns and operates twenty-two (22) Healthcare Centers, staffed with Internists, Family Practitioners, Pediatricians, an Allergist, Cardiologists, an Endocrinologist, Infectious Disease physician, Neurologists, Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Rheumatologists. The Hospital owns and operates outpatient centers in Morris, Channahon and Yorkville offering Physical Therapy, Immediate Care and Occupational Medicine. The Hospital owns three facilities located in Morris, Coal City and Minooka where space is rented out to independent physician practitioners, all of whom are on staff at Morris Hospital. The project was a three-part expansion and modernization plan.
The first project was at the Diamond-Coal City single-story multi-specialty outpatient center. The center was upgraded to contain 13,380 square feet of Imaging, Rehab, Occupational Medicine, Laboratory, Immediate Care, and physician offices. This site is at the northwest corner of Illinois Route 13 and McGinty Road in Diamond, IL.
The second improvement was at the Morris Main Hospital at 150 W. High Street, Morris, IL where the emergency room was relocated from the South to the East wing of the hospital, allowing the hospital to grow from nine mostly semi-private to seventeen all private rooms and treatment areas. The relocation of the Emergency Room allowed the consolidation and modernization of Imaging and Cardiovascular Services. The Information Technology, Human Resources, Administration, HIM, Business Office, Scheduling, and other departments relocated offsite to an Annex allowing an increase of the Hospital’s patient care footprint.
The third project was the construction of a two-story 15,336 square foot multi-specialty outpatient center at the Southwest corner of Columbus Drive and DeLeon Street in Ottawa, IL that contained Imaging, Rehab, Occupational Medicine, Laboratory, Immediate Care, and physician offices on the first floor. The 13,369 square foot second story was be shelled out for future physician office growth and consolidation. On December 13, 2018, bonds were issued in the amount of $74,590,000 to help create and retain 480 full-time jobs.
The Project closed in 2001.