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The Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary was founded in May 1858 by a 30-year-old physician named Edward Lorenzo Holmes as the Chicago Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. [1] [2] The Infirmary took up just a single room in a frame building at 60 North Clark Street in Chicago, and the first patient arrived before the room was even ready.
December 1980—P.L. 96-538 changed the name of the institute to the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. 1982—HHS conferred bureau status on the institute, resulting in the creation of the Division of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the appointment of a Division Director.
Washington Park Hospital, Chicago; Wesley Memorial Hospital, Chicago; West Side Hospital, Chicago; Woodlawn Hospital, Chicago; References External links "IDPH ...
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.
The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), is a not-for-profit physical medicine and rehabilitation research hospital based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1954, the AbilityLab is designed for patient care, education, and research in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R).
Opening in the fall of that year, the building comprised the Abbott Memorial Hall and the Albert Merritt Billings Hospital, a 215-bed facility. [5] Photomechanical print of the Albert Merritt Billings Memorial Hospital, Chicago, by G. Haln. October 1929. In 1988, The University of Chicago Medicine decided to close its adult trauma center.
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.
Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital is a 120-bed hospital in Wheaton, Illinois, dedicated to the delivery of physical rehabilitative medicine. Marianjoy has a network of inpatient, subacute, and outpatient sites and physician clinics around the Chicago area including Oak Park, Oakbrook Terrace, and Wheaton. [21]