Loyola University Medical Center

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. The heart of the medical center campus is the Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center (now named for the late Cardinal Joseph Louis Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, who was a patient at the Cancer Center when he died in November 1996 from metastatic pancreatic cancer) Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (named for Samuel Cardinal Stritch, a former archbishop of Chicago), Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Center for Translational Research and Education, and the Loyola Center for Fitness.

Loyola Medicine
Trinity Health
Geography
LocationMaywood, Illinois, United States
Coordinates41°51′31″N 87°50′7″W
Organization
Care systemPrivate, Medicaid, Medicare
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityLoyola University Chicago
Services
Emergency departmentLevel I trauma center
Beds547
History
Opened1969
Links
Websitewww.loyolamedicine.org
ListsHospitals in Illinois

Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park, Illinois includes the 264-licensed-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Health and Fitness Center and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center. In 2018, Tenet Healthcare sold the formerly for-profit MacNeal Hospital, in Berwyn, Illinois, to Loyola Medicine.[1] Loyola University Health System has been a member of Trinity Health since July 2011. The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy is a part of the Stritch School of Medicine.[2]

Loyola Medicine has made news for delivering two of the smallest babies to ever survive: one born 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8.6 ounces (240 g), and another was born at 26 weeks weighing 9.9 ounces (280 g) and measuring 9.5 inches (24 cm).

Programs

Loyola University Medical Center has 50 residency and fellowship training programs in the following medical and surgical specialties. Residency programs available are: anesthesia, combined medicine/pediatrics, dental medicine, dermatology, emergency medicine (starting in 2019), family medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, neurological surgery, neurology, nuclear medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, oral/maxillofacial surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, plastic and reconstructive surgery, podiatry, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, radiation oncology, radiology, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, and urology. Fellowship opportunities include: addiction medicine, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, anesthesia (CV and thoracic), anesthesia (pain management), body imaging, cardiology (EP), cardiology (interventional), cardiology (imaging), cytopathology, endocrinology and metabolism, endourology and laproscopic surgery, female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, gastroenterology and nutrition, geriatric psychiatry, geriatric medicine, hand surgery, hematology and oncology, hematopathology, infectious disease, interventional radiology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology (clinical neurophysiology), neurology (headache medicine), neurology (vascular), neuroradiology, orthopaedic hand surgery, pulmonary and critical care medicine, rheumatology, surgical critical care, surgical pathology, and vascular surgery and endovascular therapy.

References
  1. Elejalde-Ruiz, Alexia (February 26, 2018). "Loyola's purchase of MacNeal Hospital could take away Berwyn's biggest source of property tax revenue". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  2. "CNS NEWS BRIEFS Mar-30-2012". Catholicnews.com. 1927-03-04. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
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