Northwestern Medicine

Northwestern Medicine formerly Northwestern Memorial Healthcare is a nonprofit network of healthcare providers in Illinois, based out of Chicago, Illinois. Members include academic centers, acute care facilities, and research hospitals. Northwestern Medicine's flagship hospital is the nationally-ranked, Northwestern Memorial Hospital which is also the regions tertiary hospital for adults. Northwestern Medicine is affiliated with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine maintains active teaching programs at its hospitals.[1]

Not to be confused with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Northwestern Medicine
MottoBetter
FormationJune 21, 2016 (2016-06-21)
TypeNon-profit orginization
Purpose501(c)(3) health system
HeadquartersChicago
Location
Region
Illinois
ServicesHealth System
Key people
  • Dean M. Harrison (CEO)
  • John A. Orsini (CFO)
Subsidiaries
  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital
  • Prentice Women's Hospital
  • Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage
  • Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital
  • Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital
  • Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
  • Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital
  • Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Community Hospital
  • Northwestern Medicine Woodstock Hospital
  • Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital
  • Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
AffiliationsFeinberg School of Medicine
Lurie Children's Hospital
Websitewww.nm.org

Along with their 10 hospitals and physicians offices, Northwestern Medicine operates a network of urgent care centers across the region.[2]

While not directly operated with Northwestern Medicine, the network maintains close affiliations with the nearby Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, collaborating with them for many of their services.[3]

History

Northwestern Memorial Healthcare was effectively formed in 2009 when Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Lake Forest Hospital announce an affiliation agreement, with the finalized merger completed the next year, in 2010.[4]

In 2014 Northwestern Memorial affiliated with Cadence Health adding four more hospitals to their lineup, including Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital.[4]

In 2015 Northwestern Medicine merged with the KishHealth System adding two hospitals including the Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital.[4]

In December 2020 it was announced that Northwestern Medicine would be merging with Palos Health adding another hospital to Northwestern Medicine's network, in an agreement with no money changing hands.[5] The merger comes after Palos previously denied Loyola Health's request to merge in 2019.[6][7]

Hospitals

Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Main article: Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship campus for Northwestern Medicine and the primary teaching hospital for the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.[8] Northwestern Memorial provides a total of 894 inpatient beds and encompasses more than 3 million square feet of medical buildings within the Northwestern University Chicago campus in the Streeterville neighborhood downtown.[9] Nearly every medical specialty is represented by over 1,900 physicians on the medical staff at Northwestern Memorial who also carry faculty appointments with Feinberg School of Medicine.[10] As of 2018, total hospital-based research funding topped $484 million placing Northwestern in the top 15 for the National Institutes of Health ranking among all American Medical Schools.[11]

Prentice Women’s Hospital
Main article: Prentice Women's Hospital
The new Prentice Women's Hospital building, Chicago, Illinois.

Prentice Women’s Hospital is an acute care women's hospital located adjacent to both Northwestern Memorial and the Lurie Children's Hospital. The hospital provides tertiary-level obstetric, gynecological, and neonatal care to patients from the entire region. The hospital has 256 beds, with 86 AAP verified level III neonatal intensive care unit beds, 32 labor and delivery beds, 86 healthy bassinets, and 10 operating rooms.[12] The hospital is directly attached to the Lurie Children's Hospital via skybridge because Lurie physicians provide care on Prentice's neonatal intensive care units.[13]

Lake Forest Hospital
Main article: Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital
Northwestern Medicine's Lake Forest Hospital. A New facility that opened in March 2018

Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital (NLFH) is a community-based hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois and a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, one of the nation's premiere academic medical centers.[14] On February 1, 2010, Lake Forest Hospital completed an affiliation agreement with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and became Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital.[14] The 201-bed hospital is on a 160-acre (65 ha) campus in Lake Forest and provides a comprehensive array of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services.[15]

Central DuPage Hospital
Main article: Central DuPage Hospital

Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) is a 390-bed hospital in Winfield, Illinois, US, one of seven hospitals operated by Northwestern Medicine. CDH became one of the first hospitals in the Chicago area to perform open-heart surgery on a beating heart,[16] and as of 2020 was ranked 8th in the Best Hospitals in Illinois list by U.S. News, but not nationally ranked in any specialty.[17]

Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
Main article: Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital

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.[18]

McHenry Hospital
Main article: Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital

Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital is a hospital in McHenry, Illinois. Previously, the hospital was called Northern Illinois Medical Center and later Centegra Hospital - McHenry. The hospital is a division of Northwestern Medicine since 2018 when Northwestern Medicine partnered with Centegra Health System.

Woodstock Hospital
Main article: Northwestern Medicine Woodstock Hospital

Northwestern Medicine Woodstock Hospital (formerly Centegra Hospital - Woodstock) is a hospital in Woodstock, Illinois. The hospital is a division of Northwestern Medicine since 2018 when Northwestern Medicine partnered with Centegra Health System.

See also

References
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  11. "Our Research: Feinberg School of Medicine: Northwestern University". www.feinberg.northwestern.edu. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
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  14. "Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Sign Affiliation Agreement" (PDF). Press Release. NMH. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  15. Among the Oak Trees: A History of the People and Events That Created Lake Forest Hospital. Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital. 2010. p. 73.
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