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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 ]
In 2009, the William Wirtz family (owners of the Chicago Blackhawks) donated $19.5 million to Northwestern Memorial Hospital to support cancer research and clinical advancements within the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. [11] In 2014, Leonidas Platanias was appointed director of the Lurie Cancer Center. [12]
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 .
The McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University is a consortium of urban, suburban, specialized, and general hospitals and Northwestern University. The member hospitals of the center have a total bed capacity of more than 2200.
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 ...
This category contains articles related to Northwestern Medicine. Pages in category "Northwestern Medicine" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.