Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.
Veterans Administration Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois Coordinates 42°18′13″N 87°51′34″W / 42.30361°N 87.85944°W / 42.30361; -87
VA Medical Center: Chicago: Jesse Brown VA Medical Center Danville: Danville VA Medical Center Hines: Edward Hines Junior Hospital Marion: Marion VA Medical Center VA/DoD Medical Center: North Chicago: Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center: Community Based Outpatient Clinic: Bloomington: Bloomington VA Clinic Bourbonnais: Kankakee ...
The medical center is located in North Chicago, Illinois, and is on the grounds of the former North Chicago VA Medical Center, [2] opened on 1 March 1926. [3] [4] During the years from 1928 to 1939, an additional six buildings were constructed. In 1939, the hospital was renamed the Downey Veteran Administration Hospital. [5]
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area.
Joseph Haymond, a pharmacist, instituted a manual filling system at the Leavenworth VA Hospital in the 1980s and processed all mail requests from Leavenworth VA and Topeka VA. He then transferred to the Nashville VA and, working with engineers from Baxter , developed the first prototype machines that led to the full development of the ...
The Illinois Medical District (IMD) is a special-use zoning district two miles west of the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. The Illinois Medical District consists of 560 acres of medical research facilities, labs, a biotechnology business incubator, a raw development area, four major hospitals, two medical universities, and more than 40 health care ...
Also that year, 60 acres (24 ha) of the Vaughan campus were leased to Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine to build a new medical school. The 451-bed Foster G. McGraw Hospital, later known as the Loyola University Medical Center, opened on May 29, 1969. This partnership allowed Hines to have one of the most comprehensive ...