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Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a 551-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in Chicago. Founded in 1897, the hospital operates a Level I trauma center and Level III Perinatal Center. Its license number is 0005165. [ 5 ]
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.
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.
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.
A block within the Illinois Medical District bounded by Taylor, Wood, Polk and Lincoln (now Wolcott) Streets was home to the Chicago Cubs baseball club from 1893 to 1915, at the 16,000 capacity West Side Park. The first game was held on May 14, 1893 (Cincinnati 13, Chicago 12) and the last game was on October 3, 1915 (Chicago 7, St. Louis 2).
In early October 2003, La Grange Memorial Hospital announced that it would renovate and expand for $79 million, it would add a five-story, 225,000-square-foot tower. [9] The private patient rooms would be 221-square-foot, doubling the size of the older rooms that were 116-square-foot.
That same year, the hospital was recognized by Chicago Magazine as a top Chicago area hospital, [33] and was ranked 7th in Illinois by U.S. News & World Report. [4] A new emergency department, operating suites and loading dock were built as a part of a $40 million expansion project expected, to be completed in spring 2015.
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, is an urban hospital located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is a 236-bed hospital, [1] located on the site of what used to be Clarendon Beach, a popular beach of the city. Until the 2000s, Weiss Hospital had been part of the University of Chicago Hospitals system. [2]