Clinical Services
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation (NMFF) is a premier, multi-specialty physician organization and the principal practice plan of the full-time faculty of the Feinberg School of Medicine. NMFF provides exceptional care to patients and supports the research and academic endeavors of its members.
NMFF includes more than 650 physicians, representing nearly all major adult specialty and subspecialty areas. During 2008, NMFF physicians generated $435 million in net patient care revenue, and transferred $39 million to the Feinberg School to support the Dean’s Research and Education Fund and other academic and research purposes.
In 2008 NMFF expanded its interdisciplinary clinical programs to include women’s cancer, peripheral neuropathy, scleroderma, pulmonary hypertension, and management of obesity. NMFF continues to collaborate with the Feinberg School and Northwestern Memorial Hospital to improve quality, foster alignment, and accelerate our growth as a Great Academic Medical Center.
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Dr. Warren Wallace (right), associate dean for admissions and assistant professor of medicine, leads a group of third-year students on rounds at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center on Chicago’s West Side.
Following city and state regulatory approvals, construction began in April on Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago on the campus of the Feinberg School. To support the project, Children’s Memorial publicly announced its $600 million fundraising initiative Heroes for Life: Campaign for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. In 2008 Children’s Memorial served more than 126,000 children, resulting in nearly 462,000 patient visits at its Lincoln Park campus and outreach locations. The hospital established the world’s first pediatric center in the unique specialty of autonomic medicine, and became the first pediatric hospital in Illinois to use an innovative ventricular assist device: the Berlin Heart.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) continued to grow during fiscal year 2008 by treating a record number of patients, delivering more newborns than ever in Prentice Women’s Hospital, and welcoming 153 new physicians to the medical staff. A multi-year planning process with the Feinberg School and the medical staff advanced a shared vision to accelerate Northwestern as one of the country’s great academic medical centers. Clinical innovation, breakthrough research, community engagement, exceptional financial performance, and furthering efforts as a national quality leader highlight the combined focus to create the ideal experience for patients. For the 14th consecutive year, Northwestern Memorial earned recognition as Chicago’s “most preferred” hospital by health care consumers. In addition, 10 of the hospital’s clinical specialties were listed among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report, with six ranked the highest in Illinois.
Dr. Gail Gamble (center) and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) occupational therapist Katie Fogarty work collaboratively treating cancer patients in RIC’s new outpatient Lymphedema Clinic.
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) has embarked upon an ambitious, new vision for its future. As the world’s largest rehabilitation research organization, RIC has elevated the significance of its science and research, embedding it more widely and deeply into its clinical care to drive toward the new vision—to advance human ability. New talent, innovative technologies, and research discoveries will not only impact patients’ lives but also continually set new standards for rehabilitation medicine worldwide. Consistent with its future aspirations, RIC has expanded its innovative Cancer Rehabilitation Program and is working collaboratively with Northwestern University’s Lurie Cancer Center to integrate rehabilitation medicine with primary oncology care.
VA Medical Center
Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (JBVAMC) provides medical, surgical, rehabilitative, and mental health care to more than 62,000 veterans in Chicago and surrounding areas. It has 224 inpatient beds, more than 7,300 annual admissions and, combined with its four community-based outpatient clinics, provides almost 550,000 ambulatory care visits annually. A highlight in 2008 was the opening of the medical center’s new $99 million, 224,000-square-foot inpatient Bed Tower Pavilion, which also includes seven operating rooms, a cystology room, inpatient dialysis, outpatient surgical center, and a chapel. JBVAMC also has an extensive research and development program and active university affiliations that provide training for more than 900 residents, interns, and students each year, including 127 residents from the McGaw Medical Center.
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
In June, the Feinberg School and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) agreed to terminate their affiliation because of fundamentally different ideas about the role of academic leadership in assuring the quality of education and research at ENH, processes for faculty and leadership appointments, and concerns about the relative roles of the clinical affiliates of the medical school. Financial issues were not key to the disaffiliation. ENH and the Feinberg School of Medicine are moving forward with an orderly and amicable separation. FSM will now be more fully aligned with NMH, and the school will continue to strengthen its relationships with its other affiliated hospital and physician partners and explore additional affiliation opportunities.