In the mid-1990s the hospital proposed a major campus overhaul that was eventually approved by the city of Rockford, providing SwedishAmerican assistance in recovering a blighted neighborhood nearby.

In 1911, in response to a great need for healthcare services in Rockford, the city's growing Swedish community, under the leadership of Pehr August Peterson, decided to build a new hospital.

Part of the proposal was a request to the city of Rockford was to reroute Charles Street, which passed through the middle of the existing hospital campus.

The city agreed, provided Swedish American help renovate and revitalize the blighted neighborhood south of the hospital.

[3] By 2001 dilapidated structures had been demolished and the hospital, along with the city and Habitat for Humanity began construction on the area's first new homes.

[4] The hospital employees more than 350 physicians across 40 different specialties and features an outpatient surgery center which approximately 6,000 people utilize annually.