QMG Hospital & Birth Center Approved

QUIN­CY, IL – The Illi­nois Health Facil­i­ties and Ser­vices Review Board (HFS­RB) approved Quin­cy Med­ical Group’s (QMG) Cer­tifi­cate of Need (CON) appli­ca­tions for both the QMG Hos­pi­tal and QMG Birth Cen­ter fol­low­ing their board meet­ing today.

QMG Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer Car­ol Brock­miller shared, ​“We are thrilled with the board’s deci­sions today. At QMG, we are doing real­ly good things for all the right rea­sons and try­ing hard to serve the peo­ple of Quin­cy, Adams Coun­ty, West Cen­tral Illi­nois, and the tri-states. We are here, first and fore­most, for our patients. That focus hasn’t changed in our 85-year his­to­ry. In fact, it’s dri­ven us to do bet­ter and ensure that we pro­vide qual­i­ty health­care now and for the next gen­er­a­tion of patients. Since we first announced our plans for the QMG Hos­pi­tal and QMG Birth Cen­ter, the gra­cious actions of sup­port from our patients, local res­i­dents, and com­mu­ni­ty part­ners have helped our con­cepts become real­i­ty in our com­mu­ni­ty. I would like to extend our heart­felt appre­ci­a­tion on behalf of Quin­cy Med­ical Group physi­cians and employees.”

The approval from the HFS­RB allows QMG to move for­ward with con­struc­tion of the QMG Hos­pi­tal and QMG Birth Cen­ter on the cam­pus of the Quin­cy Town Cen­ter, which is already home to the QMG Surgery Cen­ter and Can­cer Institute.

QMG’s small-for­mat hos­pi­tal will include 25 med-surg beds; 3 labor, deliv­ery, recov­ery and post­par­tum or LDRP rooms, an emer­gency depart­ment with 10 bays; a C‑section suite; 3 oper­at­ing rooms; and 1 pro­ce­dure room. The hos­pi­tal will also include a post-anes­the­sia care unit, lab­o­ra­to­ry, phar­ma­cy, and imag­ing depart­ment. Three of the med­ical-sur­gi­cal beds will be equipped to serve as neg­a­tive pres­sure rooms, or iso­la­tion rooms, to aid in future infec­tious dis­ease outbreaks.

The QMG Birth Cen­ter will have three birthing rooms, a des­ig­nat­ed space for pre­na­tal vis­its and antepar­tum (or before child­birth) test­ing, and a con­fer­ence space for edu­ca­tion ser­vices. With this deci­sion, the QMG Birth Cen­ter will become the first birth cen­ter in the Quin­cy region and the sixth in the state of Illinois.

Dr. Todd Pet­ty, QMG Sur­geon and Board Chair said, ​“We thank the board for their approval and this com­mu­ni­ty for their sup­port. Our physi­cians and team at QMG have ded­i­cat­ed our lives to our patients. Local patients deserve afford­able, qual­i­ty health­care. Today’s deci­sion allows us the oppor­tu­ni­ty to give them that. We look for­ward to the bright future of afford­able health­care for every­one in our region.”

For more infor­ma­tion on the QMG Hos­pi­tal vis­it quin​cymed​group​.com/​q​m​g​-​h​o​s​pital and for the Birth Cen­ter vis­it quin​cymed​group​.com/​q​m​g​-​b​i​r​t​h​-​c​enter.