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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]
Prentice Women's Hospital is an acute care women's hospital located adjacent to both Northwestern Memorial and the Lurie Children's Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Prentice Women's Hospital is a member of Northwestern Medicine and serves as a teaching hospital for the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine .
The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 [1] [2] throughout Illinois and surrounding regions. Lurie Children's also sometimes treats adults that require pediatric care. [3] [4] Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago also features a state ...
Stroger employs 300 attending physicians and over 400 fellows and residents. It has 1.2 million square feet (110,000 m 2) of floor space, and 464 beds.It is located at 1901 W. Harrison Street, and is a part of the 305 acre (1.2 km 2) Illinois Medical District on Chicago's West Side, which is one of the largest concentrations of medical facilities in the world.
In 1938 the university combined their pediatric and maternity hospitals into one facility. In 1967, the University of Chicago Medicine's Wyler Children's Hospital opened in a wing of the adult hospital. The hospital had a capacity of 140 beds and 95,000 square feet. [7] Wyler was located one block south of the new Comer Children's Hospital. [8]
Overhead of the hospital complex. St. Luke's Hospital was founded in 1864. [3] The St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing was established in 1885. St. Luke's merged with Presbyterian Hospital to form Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in 1956. [4] Their nursing schools also united to create the Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing. [5]
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.