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Isabella Garnett (August 22, 1872 – August 23, 1948) [1] founded the first hospital in the city of Evanston, Illinois that would serve African-American patients. After her hospital merged into Evanston's new Community Hospital in 1928, she served as superintendent of that institution for more than a decade.
Northwestern Medicine's flagship hospital is the nationally-ranked, Northwestern Memorial Hospital which is also the regions tertiary hospital for adults. Along with their 10 hospitals and physicians offices , Northwestern Medicine operates a network of urgent care centers across the region. [ 1 ]
The next year, though, a severe shortage of hospital beds in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area spurred hospital organizers to organize a United Hospital Fund drive. It raised $17 million for hospitals around the Twin Cities. [2] In 1964, Northwestern Hospital had 395 beds, along with a medical staff of 244 members and over 1,000 other employees.
Garnet Health [2] is a Middletown, New York-based three-campus health system which, together with its nine urgent-care facilities, provides care to approximately 500,000 residents in Orange and Sullivan Counties, and surrounding areas in New York State. [2] [3] The hospital's roots date back to 1887. [4]
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]
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
In 2006, North Shore University Hospital named its campus in honor of contributor and trustee, Sandra Atlas Bass. In 2024 the hospital opened the 288,000 square foot Petrocelli Surgical Pavilion which added 18 operating rooms, 3 hybrid operating rooms and 132 ICU beds. The facility was built to expand capacity for the cardiac, neurosurgery and ...
In 1996, surgeons from Northwestern Memorial Hospital became the first in Illinois to perform an islet cell transplantation. [19] On May 1, 1999, Northwestern Memorial Hospital opened the 17-floor Feinberg Pavilion and 22-floor Galter Pavilion at its current location in Streeterville. The new construction became a model facility for hospital ...