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Loyola Medicine, also known as Loyola University Health System, is a quaternary-care system with a 61-acre (25 ha) main medical center campus in the western suburbs of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The medical center campus is located in Maywood, 13 miles (21 km) west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles (13 km) east of Oak Brook.
Loyola University Hospital is a 569-licensed-bed American hospital on the campus of Loyola University Medical Center in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, which houses a Level 1 trauma center and a Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital
In 1968, a new medical school and 504 bed teaching hospital – the first two units of the new Loyola University Medical Center – were completed on a 60-acre (240,000 m 2) tract of land in Maywood, Illinois. The new medical school was occupied in January 1969, and the University hospital opened its doors on May 21, 1969.
Also that year, 60 acres (24 ha) of the Vaughan campus were leased to Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine to build a new medical school. The 451-bed Foster G. McGraw Hospital, later known as the Loyola University Medical Center, opened on May 29, 1969. This partnership allowed Hines to have one of the most comprehensive ...
www.maywood-il.org Maywood is a village in Cook County, Illinois , United States, in the Chicago metropolitan area . It was founded on April 6, 1869, [ 2 ] and organized October 22, 1881. [ 3 ]
In 1969, Loyola established the School of Education and consolidated medical programs at the Loyola University Medical Center, a hospital and health care complex in Maywood, a neighboring suburb of Chicago. The university legally separated from the Jesuits in 1970, and today is under lay control and governed by a board of trustees.
Area code 708 was created on November 11, 1989, in a split of area code 312. It once served almost all of Chicago's suburbs in Illinois. In 1996, its numbering plan area was reduced in a three-way area code split. The northern suburbs received area code 847, while the western suburbs were assigned area code 630.
Rockford Hospital opened in 1855 and was the city's first hospital. By 1913, the hospital outgrew its 11-patient capacity in a made-over home at South Court and Chestnut streets, and a 30-patient hospital was built, with the hospital's name being changed to Rockford Memorial Hospital in 1942.