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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.
Ascension Health Saint Joseph Hospital - Chicago, Chicago; ... Roseland Community Hospital, Chicago; RUSH Health RUSH Copley Medical Center, Aurora;
The general hospital associated with the medical college was the first in Chicago. The hospital circa 1900. The early Rush faculty, well known across the American frontier for its expertise, engaged in patient care, research and teaching, and was associated with a number of scientific developments and new clinical procedures.
Mercy Hospital building located on 2537 S. Prairie Avenue (1910) The Sisters of Mercy came from Ireland to the United States in the 1840s; six came to Chicago in 1846, establishing first a high school and then in 1852 a hospital at Rush Street and the Chicago River. [2] It was the first chartered facility in Chicago.
Carl Glennis Roberts, MD (1886–1950) was an American surgeon, gynecologist, and civil right leader, active in Chicago. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was one of the first African Americans to be elected to the American College of Surgeons ; he was also a former president of the National Medical Association .
Willis John Potts (March 22, 1895 – May 5, 1968) was an American pediatric surgeon and one of the earliest physicians to focus on the surgical treatment of heart problems in children.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital's roots date back to 1865 when the then Deaconess Hospital of Chicago was established by local reverend William A. Passavant Sr. and Lucy Rider Meyer of the Chicago Training School (later Garrett Theological Seminary), with a capacity of 15 beds.
Mount Sinai Hospital, 1519 South California Ave. in 1922. The second Jewish hospital to be established in the city, Mount Sinai Hospital differed from Michael Reese Hospital, which had been established in 1881 on Chicago's South Side primarily by German Jews, whereas Mount Sinai was founded by Eastern European Jews. [3]