Roseland Community Medical District

The Roseland Community Medical District Commission (RCMDC), an intergovernmental agency, was signed into law by the State of Illinois in 2011 by Governor Patrick Quinn. The District is created to attract and retain academic centers of excellence, viable health care facilities, medical research facilities, emerging high technology enterprises, and other facilities and uses as permitted by this Act. RCMDC acts as an independent third-party convenor and facilitator that brings institutions and individuals together around common themes and goals.

Governed by the Commission, the Roseland Community Medical District (RCMD) is a 100-acre district whose general purpose: (1) maintain the proper surroundings for a medical center and a related technology center in order to attract, stabilize, and retain within the District hospitals, clinics, research facilities, educational facilities, or other facilities permitted under this Act; and (2) provide for the orderly creation, maintenance, development, and expansion of (i) health care facilities and other ancillary or related facilities that the Commission may from time to time determine are established and operated (A) for any aspect of the carrying out of the Commission's purposes as set forth in this Act, (B) for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of human ailments and injuries, whether physical or mental, or (C) to promote medical, surgical, and scientific research and knowledge as permitted under this Act; and (ii) medical research and high technology parks, together with the necessary lands, buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property for those parks.