The hospital at the epicenter of Illinois’ coronavirus outbreak was designed for flexibility in a public health emergency. Read more in the Washington Post.
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April 9, 2020
Rush University Medical Center Featured in Washington Post
The coronavirus crisis tests this hospital's ability to handle a mass outbreak: which is what it was designed to do.
“In the wake of 9/11, [Rush] began to rethink this idea of how to deal with mass casualties. Other hospitals tried to address some of these issues, but [Rush] was the first to deal with all of these issues at once with one facility. They were really visionary.”
Jerry Johnson, Design Principal, Perkins&Will
