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Northwestern's Cancer Center, founded in 1974, was renamed in 1991, in recognition of a gift from Ann & Robert H. Lurie. [7] In 1996, during a visit to Chicago, Diana, Princess of Wales visited the Lurie Cancer Center to help raise money for cancer research and to benefit a cancer support group. [8] [9]
Rush University Medical Center has 664 patient beds at its 14-story, 830,000-square-foot location on Chicago's Near West Side. The hospital is known for its butterfly-shaped tower, designed to handle mass casualty events. [8] Rush offers more than 70 residency and fellowship programs in medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties.
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.
The society is now one of Chicago's oldest charities. [9] [10] In 1901, both Passavant Memorial Hospital and Wesley Hospital completed building expansion and renovation projects, expanding patient capacity to 65 and 181 beds, respectively. [11] Passavant Memorial Hospital at 149 West Superior Street in 1922
As of late 2021, NorthShore encompassed six hospitals—Evanston, Glenbrook, Highland Park, Skokie, Swedish, and Northwest Community—as well as NorthShore Medical Group (70 offices, ca. 800 primary and specialty care physicians), and its Research Institute and Foundation. In total, the health system employs more than 10,000 people.
In 2019, JTCC received approval from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a member of the NCI-approved Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. [6] The partnership focuses on advancing research and treatment in breast cancer, cancer prevention and control, experimental therapeutics and molecular oncology.
The Comprehensive Cancer Center is one of 51 comprehensive cancer centers in the United States as designated by the National Cancer Institute [3] of the National Institutes of Health. The first cancer research center director was John Ultmann whose specialty was the diagnosis, staging and treatment of Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's ...
[23] [24] The same year, the hospital received state regulatory approval for the construction of a new eight-story, 192-bed patient care tower, [25] [26] which was completed in 2009 at a cost of $200 million. [27] The tower is LEED certified to gold designation. In 2006, the Loeber Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory was established. [28]