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Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (ALGH) is a 645-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois. Founded in 1897, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital is the sixth largest hospital in the Chicago area, and it operates a Level I trauma center .
Advocate Christ Medical Center (ACMC) is a 788-bed teaching hospital located in Oak Lawn, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. [2] Founded in 1960, Advocate Christ Medical Center is a part of Advocate Aurora Health. In the most recent year with available data, the hospital had 40,517 admissions, 3,738 deliveries, 102,279 ED visits, 334,958 outpatient ...
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a 551-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in Chicago. Founded in 1897, the hospital operates a Level I trauma center and Level III Perinatal Center. Its license number is 0005165. [5] The hospital is a part of Advocate Aurora Health.
Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) is a non-profit, faith-based health care system with dual headquarters located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Downers Grove, Illinois. As of 2021, the AAH system has 26 hospitals and more than 500 sites of care, with 75,000 employees, including 10,000 employed physicians. [ 2 ]
In 2021, Northshore University HealthSystem was sued by employees who were denied a religious exemption from taking the COVID-19 injection and fired from their jobs. As part of the settlement awarded in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois, Northshore was ordered to rehire the workers and pay them a total of $10.3 million in damages. [7]
Patient advocacy, as a hospital-based practice, grew out of this patient rights movement: patient advocates (often called patient representatives) were needed to protect and enhance the rights of patients at a time when hospital stays were long and acute conditions—heart disease, stroke and cancer—contributed to the boom in hospital growth.
Advocate Children's Hospital was formed in 2012 when Hope Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn merged with Lutheran Children's Hospital in Park Ridge. [8] Following a trend for children's hospitals in the Chicago region, Advocate Children's Hospital expanded in 2018 when the hospital added 11 beds to their neonatal intensive care unit. [9]
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.