1955-1998 In 1955, La Grange Memorial Hospital was founded. On January 10, 1995,
Columbia/HCA Healthcare announced that it would
purchase La Grange Memorial Hospital. The for-profit hospital network purchased La Grange Memorial Hospital for $155 million. On August 20, 1998, Adventist Health System announced that it was purchasing La Grange Memorial Hospital from Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. In September 1998, Adventist Health System purchased La Grange Memorial Hospital for $155 million. After the purchase, Adventist Health System upgraded La Grange Memorial Hospital for $40 million; the upgrades had originally been part of an agreement between Columbia/HCA Healthcare and the
Illinois Department of Public Health. The private patient rooms would be 221-square-foot, doubling the size of the older rooms that were 116-square-foot. At the end of construction the number of
beds would stay the same at 223. And the hospitals generator and
cooling system would be made bigger. On August 29, 2013, the Natural Birthing Center opened one day early, when a woman who was in labour had a
water birth at the hospital. In late June 2014, Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital got approval from the La Grange village board to expand and renovate its
emergency department to 7,000-square-foot. In early October 2014, Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital had a groundbreaking ceremony for its emergency department. The construction was completed in late September 2016 for a total of $10 million. The number of rooms had been increased from sixteen to twenty-four and they had been made private. On February 1, 2015, the joint venture
AMITA Health was officially created by Adventist Midwest Health and Alexian Health System. On October 21, 2021, AMITA Health announced that it would split up. On April 1, 2022, AMITA Health split up, and AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center La Grange
rebranded to AdventHealth La Grange. In late July 2017, AMITA Health applied for a
certificate of need with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board. It wanted to build a two-story 30,000-square-foot expansion for $43 million at AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center La Grange. It wanted to add
orthopedics with six
operating rooms, cardiac testing and rehabilitation. even thou some of the people in the neighborhood were concerned about the traffic the construction would create. In July 2018, Walsh Construction started expansion of the outpatient center at AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center La Grange, a total of 26,000-square-foot would be added to the outpatient center. And also the hospital would have 25,000-square-foot in renovations. In March 2020, Walsh Construction finished the construction for $21 million saving AMITA Health $22 million. On September 13, 2022, UChicago Medicine announced that it planned to purchase a
controlling interest in the AdventHealth hospitals in Illinois. The joint venture became official on January 1, 2023. ==Controversy==