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In 2009, the William Wirtz family (owners of the Chicago Blackhawks) donated $19.5 million to Northwestern Memorial Hospital to support cancer research and clinical advancements within the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. [11] In 2014, Leonidas Platanias was appointed director of the Lurie Cancer Center. [12]
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, formerly Children's Memorial Hospital and commonly known as Lurie Children's, is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Chicago, Illinois. The hospital has 360 beds and is affiliated with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
The hospital has 256 beds, with 86 AAP verified level III neonatal intensive care unit beds, 32 labor and delivery beds, 86 healthy bassinets, and 10 operating rooms. [63] The hospital is directly attached to the Lurie Children's Hospital via skybridge because Lurie physicians provide care on Prentice's neonatal intensive care units. [64]
Lurie Children's Hospital continues to grapple with network issues after falling victim to a cyberattack almost a week ago.
Other portal applications are integrated into the existing healthcare provider's website. Still others are modules added onto an existing electronic medical record (EMR) system. What all of these services share is the ability of patients to interact with their medical information via the Internet.
Robert H. Lurie was an American philanthropist and businessman who was a founder of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation, which contributed to the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and Lurie Children's Hospital. With his business partner Sam Zell, he was a part-owner of the White Sox and the Bulls.
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Family Foundation was incorporated in 1986 (39 years ago) () and, in 2000, the name was changed to Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation.The Foundation was established by Chicagoans Robert H. Lurie, a real estate and investment magnate who died from colon cancer in 1990, at age 48, [1] and his wife, Ann, who died from brain cancer in 2024, aged 79.
Sarwark is active in numerous ongoing leadership activities and committees at Lurie Children's Hospital and NUFSM; including Research Strategic Planning LC; the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine and its Education and Residency Selection Committee, past Medical Faculty Senate Council Member and National Alumni Board Member.