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By the mid-1980s, it was apparent that Northwestern Memorial's facilities had become outdated: expensive to maintain and unable to support medicine's numerous technological advances. As a result, in 1988 extensive planning began in partnership with Northwestern University and the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation for what would eventually become one of the largest healthcare construction projects in the nation. The input of physicians, employees, patients and the community led to the design of a state-of-the-art facility to replace beds and services in Passavant, Wesley and Olson Pavilions, and to consolidate more than twenty scattered outpatient sites.
In 1994, ground was broken for the new hospital on a site bordered by Fairbanks Court and St. Clair, Huron and Erie streets. On May 1, 1999, Northwestern Memorial opened its new, two million square-foot healthcare facility. The 17-story Feinberg Inpatient Pavilion and the 22-story Galter Outpatient Pavilion share an eight-floor base of public areas and diagnostic and therapeutic services. Feinberg Pavilion houses nearly 500 inpatient private rooms, including nearly 100 private intensive care rooms. Galter Pavilion's clinical facilities and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and private physician offices provides convenient access to outpatient services. Additional facilities in the new Northwestern Memorial include a conference center, auditorium, high-tech learning laboratories, a health learning center, a museum and retail space for patients and the general public. Northwestern Memorial has become a model facility for healthcare providers, with hundreds of tour groups from both the U.S. and abroad visiting annually.
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