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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.
Abbott Northwestern Hospital was founded in 1882 as Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children. Harriet G. Walker, the wife of prominent Minneapolis businessman Thomas Barlow Walker, invited 44 Minneapolis ladies to a meeting. Although it was billed as a fine social event, Walker actually had the foundation of a charity hospital in mind. Dr.
Northwestern Medicine's flagship hospital is the nationally-ranked, Northwestern Memorial Hospital which is also the regions tertiary hospital for adults. Along with their 10 hospitals and physicians offices , Northwestern Medicine operates a network of urgent care centers across the region. [ 1 ]
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.
The hospital became affiliated with Northwestern University and the Feinberg School of Medicine in the 1930s. [1] Evanston Hospital expanded to 475 beds during the 1940s and established intensive care, cardiac care, kidney dialysis center and neonatology units. [citation needed] Evanston Hospital opened Glenbrook Hospital in 1977.
Affiliated with Northwestern University, the hospital is located on Northwestern’s Chicago campus and partners on research and medical efforts. [2] Since 1991, the hospital has remained the top ranked rehabilitation hospital in America as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.
Prentice Women's Hospital is an acute care women's hospital located adjacent to both Northwestern Memorial and the Lurie Children's Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Prentice Women's Hospital is a member of Northwestern Medicine and serves as a teaching hospital for the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine .
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) is a 390-bed hospital in Winfield, Illinois, United States, one of twelve [1] hospitals operated by Northwestern Medicine. CDH was the first hospital in DuPage County to perform open heart surgery and the first to perform closed-chest, robot-assisted cardiac bypass surgery in the State of ...