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This page provides links to the home pages of Chicago
hospitals and health care networks commonly utilized by faculty
and staff. We and the hospitals listed below encourage you to visit
these links as a way to further understand your health plan options.
Hospital Listing
Advocate Health Care (including Lutheran General
Hospital)
Childrens Memorial Medical Center
NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston, Glenbrook
and Highland Park Hospitals)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
St Francis Hospital of Evanston (Resurrection Health
Care)
Advocate Health Care (Christ, Lutheran
General, Ravenswood, etc. Hospitals)
Advocate Health Care,
based in Oak Brook, Illinois, is one of the largest health care
organizations in the Chicago area. It has more than 20,000 employees,
3,800 physicians and 180 sites of care, including eight hospitals
with more than 3,200 beds.
Advocate also has a multispecialty physician practice, the area's
largest full-service home health care company, skilled nursing facilities,
outpatient centers, advanced information technologies and a sophisticated
regional approach to network operations. In addition, it has long-
term academic and teaching affiliations with the University of Illinois
at Chicago Health Sciences Center and the University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Medicine.
Advocate Health Care is one of the nation's largest religiously
sponsored health care organizations, related to both the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ.
The Children's Memorial Medical Center
The Children's Memorial Medical
Center is a leading regional provider of specialty pediatric
care, serving north and central Illinois, northwest Indiana, southern
Wisconsin, and southern Michigan. Offering all specialty and subspecialty
services, 33 in all, Children's provides comprehensive treatment
in primary, secondary, and teritary care. Delivery of care to children
involves parents and other caregivers as part of the treatment plan.
Children's is a pediatric trauma center for the state of Illinois
with skilled transport teams available around the clock. It also
operates an outpatient specialty center in Westchester, Illinois
and a pediatric home health service.
NorthShore University HealthSystem
NorthShore University HealthSystem
is comprised of Evanston Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital, Highland
Park Hospital and NorthShore University HealthSystem. NorthShore University HealthSystem provides care across
the entire spectrum: from physician offices, to hospital services,
to hospice and home care. It also supports extensive medical education
and research programs. Evanston, Glenbrook
and Highland Park Hospitals offer a complete range of specialty
and subspecialty care. The Hospitals have been ranked among the
"Top 100 Hospitals" and "Top 15 Major Teaching Hospitals"
in the nation for the past three years. In addition, the Hospitals
have received an "Accreditation with Commendation" from
the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations,
an honor granted to only five percent of hospitals nationwide. In
1996 and 1997, Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park Hospitals were
listed among the "Best Hospitals in America" by U.S.
News and World Report.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital,
as the primary teaching hospital for Northwestern University Medical
School and one of the nation's pre-eminent medical centers, Northwestern
Memorial is noted for outstanding patient-care, medical education,
and clinical research. The medical staff, numbering nearly 1,100,
represents virtually every medical specialty. Northwestern Memorial
provides the most advanced diagnostic and therapeutic modalities
through a comprehensive continuum of outpatient and inpatient services.
In May 1995, it received an evaluation of 99 out of a possible 100
from the Joint Commission on Acreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
While tracing its Chicago roots back 135 years, Northwestern Memorial
officially was founded in 1972 through the merger of Chicago Wesley
Memorial and Passavant Memorial hospitals. In 1975, Prentice Women's
Hospital and Maternity Center and the Norman and Ida Stone Institute
of Psychiatry joined Northwestern Memorial.
St Francis Hospital
of Evanston
St. Francis Hospital, founded
in 1901, is a not-for-profit, 360-bed, comprehensive teaching hospital
and a member of Resurrection Health Care. The hospital serves northern
Chicago and the northern suburbs with a staff of 400-physicians
in 40 specialties, as well as a highly-trained complement of nurses,
technicians and support personnel. St. Francis Hospital's centers
of excellence include The Galvin Heart Center, a comprehensive Breast
Center, a Level 1 Trauma Emergency Department with a Chest Pain
Emergency Center, and a LDRP Maternity Center, where the entire
birthing experience takes place in one private, homelike room. Reaching
out to the community, St. Francis has developed a network of neighborhood
primary care facilities in Evanston, Lincolnwood, Skokie, Glenview
and soon in Morton Grove and Northtown.
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