By 1940, Lake Forest had radically changed from a summer destination to a year-round, permanent residence for many families. The significant increase in population strained Alice Home's resources. Between 1939 and 1940, the clinical staff at Alice Home managed more than 600 operations, 2,000 outpatients and 3,000 lab tests. Without the ability to expand further onto the college campus, community members and hospital staff began considering the establishment of a new, larger institution to meet these growing needs. Mrs. Mary Dick, wife of the late Albert Blake Dick Sr., lived alone on the Westmoreland Farm (named after the family's origins in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania) in Lake Forest, Illinois. In 1940, A.B. Dick Jr., her son, successfully convinced his mother that 23 acres of the family farmland ought to be donated for the new hospital. The road leading to the hospital was renamed Westmoreland Road in honor of the Dick family's generosity. Despite war rations, 300 individuals donated $800,000 for the construction of the hospital, including John G. Shedd and the McCormick families, and Lake Forest Hospital opened on November 1, 1942. By 1959, Lake Forest Hospital expanded from 65 to 101 beds and incorporated a hospital pharmacy. Two new wings were added at the west end of the hospital in 1967.