| The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine offers programs of interdisciplinary studies centered at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and associated with Northwestern Memorial, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Children's Memorial Hospitals, as well as the VA Lakeside Medical Center. The combined resources available to students and faculty members are varied and extensive. The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation strives for excellence in the delivery of patient care, research, and education.
Northwestern is a major private research university founded in 1851. It has an annual enrollment of about 18,000 students in 12 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools on two lakefront campuses in Evanston and Chicago. The medical school is located on the Chicago campus, close to several hospitals of the McGaw Medical Center.
Established in 1954, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) is the world's largest free-standing hospital especially designed for patient care, education, and research in physical medicine and rehabilitation. RIC has been recognized as the "Best Rehabilitation Hospital in America" since 1991 by U.S. News & World Report. RIC offers programs and services through its patient care services, advocacy and community outreach efforts to improve the quality of life for people with physical disabilities. RIC operates a flagship hospital in Chicago as well as a network of DayRehabCenters and outpatient centers located throughout the city and surrounding suburbs. It also maintains strategic alliances with other healthcare providers throughout the state of Illinois and north central Indiana.
In 1999 Northwestern Memorial, one of the largest private hospitals in Illinois, opened a $650-million inpatient pavilion and ambulatory care facility, the latter portion in partnership with the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation. Located on the Chicago campus, the 744-bed hospital also includes the Stone Institute of Psychiatry and Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center. Members of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine serve in Northwestern Memorial's Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University academic department. In addition, they are on the medical staff of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), where most rehabilitation care is provided by physiatrists and specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation. An academic, integrated delivery system, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) comprises Evanston, Glenbrook, and Highland Park Hospitals, ENH Medical Group, ENH Home Services, and ENH Research Institute. Most attending physicians serve on the faculty at Northwestern University and are board certified in their specialties. Evanston Hospital is a 476-bed tertiary care facility located near the main campus of Northwestern University that, together with the 136-bed Glenbrook Hospital in nearby Glenview and 239-bed Highland Park Hospital, serves Chicago's north and northwest suburbs.
With 265 beds, Children's Memorial Hospital is the medical school's primary pediatric teaching institution. It is located three miles north of the University's Chicago campus in the Lincoln Park area. Founded in 1882 as a free-care hospital for critically ill children, Children's Memorial has become a referral center that attracts patients from around the world. Begun in 1984, the Children's Memorial Research Center has evolved as the Midwest's only institution devoted exclusively to pediatric medical research.
The Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (formerly VA Chicago Health Care System) currently provides outpatient care at the Lakeside Outpatient Clinic, a multispecialty clinic on the Chicago campus. Inpatients are treated at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center's West Side facility, which features 209 general medical and surgical beds. A shuttle service takes students, residents, and faculty members between NU's campus and the West Side facility. The Lakeside Clinic is one of four outpatient clinics operated by the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center.
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center medical staff consists of more than 1,000 physicians in a wide array of specialties. In a typical year, physicians and highly skilled nursing staff care for more than 20,000 inpatients, 149,000 outpatients and 35,000 emergency patients, and handle 142,000 patient visits to primary care and specialty centers. Located in the Lakeview neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, Illinois Masonic Medical also is home to one of the Chicago area’s leading Level I trauma centers.
With 473 licensed beds and a medical staff of more than 700 physicians representing over 40 specialties, Alexian Brothers Hospital Network offers a broad range of patient care services. To better meet the needs of our continually growing communities, Alexian Brothers Hospital Network and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) joined forces to offer a dynamic, advanced rehabilitation program. RIC at Alexian Rehabilitation Hospital offers an intensive, acute rehabilitation program. Its 66-bed inpatient unit, day rehabilitation, and outpatient services provide treatment for a variety of physical disabilities. Alexian Brothers Medical Center serves the needs of residents throughout the north-west suburbs.
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