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Comer Children's Hospital features one of the only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Centers in Chicago and the region. [28] The hospital features an American Academy of Pediatrics verified Level IV NICU. [29] The hospital has multiple patient care units to care for a variety of pediatric patients from age 0-21. [30] 28-bed pediatric emergency department
Swedish Hospital (formerly Swedish Covenant Hospital) is a 312-bed [1] nonprofit teaching hospital located on the north side of Chicago, Illinois.The hospital offers over 50 medical specialties, including neurosurgery for the spine and brain, integrative cancer care, heart services (including electrophysiology), women's health services, childbirth and emergency services. [1]
Rehabilitation is a relatively new medical specialty, becoming certified as such in 1947. [6] Immediately following World War II, which had a significant impact on the specialty of rehabilitation, General Omar Bradley, the head the Veterans Administration, recruited Dr. Paul Magnuson, [7] a U.S. Army orthopaedic surgeon, who created the infrastructure for the VA to provide rehabilitation for ...
Rush University Medical Center (Rush) is an academic medical center in the Illinois Medical District neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.It is the flagship hospital for the Rush University System for Health, which includes Rush Oak Park Hospital and Rush Copley Medical Center, and serves as the primary teaching hospital in affiliation with Rush University.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Chicago [9] Central Community Hospital, Chicago; Chicago Center Hospital, Chicago; Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Chicago; Chicago Union Hospital, Chicago; Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago; Columbus Hospital, Chicago; Doctor's Hospital, Springfield; Doctor's Hospital of Hyde Park, Chicago
In medicine, proton therapy, or proton radiotherapy, is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often to treat cancer.The chief advantage of proton therapy over other types of external beam radiotherapy is that the dose of protons is deposited over a narrow range of depth; hence in minimal entry, exit, or scattered radiation dose to healthy ...
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Founded in 1882 as the Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital, an 8-bed cottage exclusively for children aged 3–13 at the corner of Chicago's Halsted and Belden streets was established by nurse and mother Julia Foster Porter after the death of her 13-year-old son.