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November 8, 2006. The John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County (shortened Stroger Hospital, formerly Cook County Hospital) is a public hospital in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is part of the Cook County Health and Hospital System, along with Provident Hospital of Cook County and several related centers, which provides public primary ...
Oak Forest Hospital of Cook County. / 41.59861°N 87.73139°W / 41.59861; -87.73139. Oak Forest Hospital of Cook County is a defunct 600+ bed hospital located in south suburban Oak Forest, Illinois. It specialized in long-term care, ventilator care, chronic disease and rehabilitation services. [ 1] It was part of the Cook County Bureau ...
Chicago-Read Mental Health Center (CRMHC, often called simply Read) is a state-run inpatient JCAHO -accredited facility with between 150 and 200 beds located in the neighborhood of Dunning on the northwest side of the city of Chicago close to O'Hare International Airport in the state of Illinois. It has served the adult residents of Chicago ...
The legendary hospital sat vacant for nearly two decades before being transformed into two Hyatt hotels, a medical office space and retail shops. Old Cook County Hospital reopens as dual Hyatt ...
Founded in 1881, Michael Reese Hospital was a major research and teaching hospital and one of the oldest and largest hospitals in Chicago, Illinois. It was located at 2929 S. Ellis Avenue on the near south side of Chicago, next to Lake Shore Drive (U.S. Route 41) which lies along Lake Michigan. The hospital closed its Internal Medicine ...
Provident Hospital was founded in 1891 by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams after Emma Reynolds, a Chicago woman, was denied admission to Cook County School of Nursing because she was Black. [ 2] Williams garnered financial support from Chicago’s Black community and White philanthropists, such as Philip Armour, T.B. Blackstone, and George Pullman, to ...
Using his executive power as Cook County board president from 1990 to 1994, Phelan reinstated access to abortion at the county hospital amid protests and litigation, reversing his predecessor’s ...
Although it was called the Chicago State Hospital, many continued to refer to the institution simply as Dunning. In 1989, during development near Irving Park Rd. and Narragansett Ave., human remains were discovered. Research led to the re-discovery of the Cook County Potter's Field, which had been located near the poor house and insane asylum.