Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Prentice Women's Hospital | Children's Memorial Hospital | John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County | Gary Methodist Hospital

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in partnership with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is a nationally recognized academic medical center and a major Midwest referral center with more than 1,554 physicians representing virtually every clinical specialty. Patient accommodations include 873 licensed beds between Northwestern Memorial, its Prentice Women’s Hospital and the Stone Institute of Psychiatry.

Northwestern Memorial is noted for its leadership in a number of clinical specialties including cardiothoracic and vascular care, women’s health, oncology, organ and bone marrow transplant, neurology and neurosurgery, and orthopaedics. The hospital is affiliated with the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, which is one of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in the nation. The hospital is also a national leader in the areas of radiology, minimally invasive surgery and pain management. Renowned in infection control, it is one of eight Prevention Epicenters of Excellence in the United States sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Site Features

• 3 million – the number of square feet of hospital space that make up Northwestern Memorial 
  

• 17 – the number of stories in the inpatient Feinberg Pavilion and the Prentice Women's Hospital
  
  
• 22- the number of stories in the outpatient Galter Pavilion

Accolades   

	Northwestern Memorial has been recognized as the most preferred hospital in Chicago for eleven years running.  Northwestern Memorial is consistently ranked among the nation’s “Best Hospitals” in a range of specialties as ranked by U.S. News & World Report magazine.
	For nine years running, Northwestern Memorial has been named to Working Mother magazine’s list of “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers.” In 2008 Northwestern completed more than twice as many transplants as the next closest hospital.  Northwestern is nationally ranked for its leading transplant program.

Education

89% - the percentage of medical residents and fellows studying in programs at NM with a four- and five-year review cycle.  A five-year cycle is the longest possible and indicates a high level of confidence by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.  The average cycle nationwide is 3.7 years.  Over 800 – the number of medical students, residents and fellows trained each year at Northwestern Memorial

Over 1,000 – the number of emergency medical staff who work for the Chicago Fire Department and other emergency services programs throughout Chicagoland who were trained in emergency response through Northwestern Memorial’s emergency medical services.

Trauma Center

This year marks Northwestern’s 23^rd year providing trauma care.  Northwestern is the only hospital serving the downtown area with a Level 1 Trauma Center, and the only academic medical center in Chicago that is a city and state Level 1 Trauma Center.  “Trauma care is a mark of excellence for a high-quality organization,” says James Adams, MD, chair of Northwestern Memorial’s Department of Emergency Medicine.  “The ability to care optimally for every type of critically ill patient is a defining characteristic of the best hospitals.” 

In 2008, the Trauma Center averaged 76 patients per month.  Level 1 patients account for nearly 30% of total ED patients.  The Northwestern trauma catchment area extends from the northern edge of Lincoln Park down to the south side of Chicago and includes the downtown Loop.

Community and Outreach at Northwestern Memorial

In June 2008, Northwestern Memorial celebrated the expansion of the James and Catherine Denny Primary Care and Preventive Medicine Center, now known as the Denny Community Health Center, located at the Lawson House YMCA.   Since August 2000, the center has provided free medical care to residents of the Lawson House YMCA, a population made up of low-income, formerly homeless Chicagoans. With Northwestern Memorial providing staff and financial support, the center accommodates approximately 2,500 patient visits each year. 

Northwestern Memorial’s Catastrophic Discount Program provides financial relief by limiting the total out-of-pocket costs for patients who may not qualify for other financial assistance programs but for who the medical debt could create a significant financial burden. 

NMH also provides support to 15 Federally Qualified Health Centers who are referred to NMH ED for further treatment when needed.

Prentice Women's Hospital

The new Prentice Women's Hospital opened in October 2007 when it moved from its original facility to a new one million square foot state-of-the-art hospital dedicated to providing care for the unique needs of women through all stages of life. The hospital was thoughtfully conceived to provide patients with comfort and convenience, the latest in healthcare technology and support of the best professionals in healthcare.

Patient Care

• 328 – the number of licensed beds in Prentice Women’s Hospital
  
• 13,600 – the number of deliveries per year Prentice Women’s can facilitate, making it the largest birthing center in both Illinois and the Midwest, and among the top five birthing centers in the nation by volume of births
  
• 86 – the number of Level III bassinettes in The Renée Schine Crown Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, dedicated to care for critically ill newborns and one of the largest NICU’s in the country

Site Features

• Prentice was built with several “green aspects” in mind, including more than 9,500 square feet of green space on four roof areas.
  
• More than 1,000 pieces of artwork, including original, limited editions or poster art have been purchased as part of the hospital’s art program. The program focuses on local art and healing art and is as diverse in its subject matters as it is in the artists featured.

 Technology

• Prentice Women’s Hospital is wired for cell phone usage and wireless Internet access throughout the facility.
  
• Nursing areas are equipped with Navicare Unit Management System Electronic LCD data screens, which display real-time patient status prior to, during and after surgical procedures.
  
• Wireless nurse-calling abilities enable quick, hands-free communication between nurses, physicians and other clinicians.
  
• Interactive televisions in patient rooms provide 24-hour access to health education, hospital information, the Internet and entertainment options that include television, movies and games.

Children's Memorial Hospital

For over 60 years, Children's Memorial has been the pediatric training site for Feinberg School of Medicine.  The relationship is critical to recruiting top physicians, scientists and caregivers and allows both residents and physicians to collaborate even more effectively with other colleagues.

Patient Care -  By the Numbers

 270 – number of beds at Children’s Memorial.  Children’s is Illinois' only freestanding hospital exclusively for kids. 

1,100 – number of pediatric specialists in more than 70 specialties, Children’s routinely provides more care to more young people than any other Chicago-area hospital.

462,000 – total inpatient and outpatient patient encounters in 2008

32 countries and 50 states – total patient origins in 2008

More than 1,500 – number of the most critically ill children from over 100 different hospitals that were transferred to Children’s Memorial for world-class care bin 2008

1 – Children’s rank among all hospitals in Chicago's seven-county metropolitan area for volume for nearly every pediatric medical and surgical specialty

60,000 – number of emergency room and urgent care visits per year

Research

Established in 1986, Children's Memorial Research Center is the research arm of Children's Memorial Hospital.  The Children’s Memorial Research Center is also one of 29 interdisciplinary research centers and institutes of the Feinberg School, where principal investigators who are part of the research center are full-time faculty members.  In 2008, the Research Center was awarded $31.7 million in external grants and contracts, of which 67 percent came from the federal government, including the National Institutes of Health. 

Advocacy and Community

• Child advocacy is a core part of the CMH mission. Children’s has a long history of partnering with government and community leaders to improve the health and well-being of children, and also focus on prevention and health promotion programs. 
  
• CMH cares for children from every legislative district in Illinois.
  
• Supporting a commitment to community, CMH invested more than $110.5 million in community benefit programs in 2008.

Accolades

• Children’s consistently ranks as one of the nation's best children's hospitals by U.S.News & World Report and Parents magazine.
  
• As the first children's hospital in the country, and the first hospital in Illinois, to receive the prestigious American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, we're honored to be part of an elite group – just 5% of U.S. hospitals have achieved and/or maintained this distinction to date.

The New Children's Memorial Hospital

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago will be located at 225 E. Chicago Avenue, just west of the new Prentice Women's Hospital between Chicago Avenue and Superior Street.

Building the new hospital in Chicago's Streeterville community will allow closer partnerships between Children’s and Northwestern Memorial.

Structure/Site Logistics

The new CMH will encompass 1.25 million square feet, a significant increase over the current hospital's 699,000 square feet. The new hospital will open with 288 licensed family-friendly single-patient rooms with capacity to expand to 313 licensed beds. Each room will be an estimated 290 square feet - more than double the space currently available for each bed in existing semi-private rooms. Larger rooms will allow for more technology at the patient's bedside.  The new hospital will provide for a 30% increase in faculty growth.

Partnering with Community and Government Leaders

In fiscal year 2008, Children’s Memorial and affiliated organizations provided nearly $110.6 million in direct community benefits, including:

• Charity care, losses due to reimbursement below cost of Medicaid services, and other uncompensated costs ($80,681,531)
  
• Resident and fellow training ($14,050,791)
  
• Language assistance services, pastoral care, social work, art and music therapies, hospital volunteer services, transplant patient family housing and other family support services ($6,750,860)
  
• Research funding ($5,680,204)
  
• Community clinic support ($2,827,204)

Children’s Memorial is the State of Illinois’ primary partner in providing health care to Medicaid-eligible children. During fiscal year 2008, Children’s Memorial was reimbursed $54.3 million less than the cost of providing services to children covered by the Medicaid program, and our doctors were reimbursed $27.6 million less than it cost them to care for children insured by Medicaid.  During that same year, Children’s Memorial experienced an unprecedented 11 percent growth in its outpatient Medicaid utilization.

John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County

The residents rotate at Cook County for one block in their second year and one in their fourth year.  The time spent at County is in the trauma unit - one of the first and busiest in the country.  The role of second year residents on the County trauma rotation is that of a junior on the service; senior residents act as the team leader for the 24-hour call day.  In this role, senior residents have equal responsibility as the senior County residents do on their call days - leading resuscitations and supervising all care within the unit.  These rotations are also unique in the fact that the trauma patients are seen in a separate trauma unit, and not in the regular ED.  This patient care approach is the opposite of that at Northwestern Memorial, where trauma patients must be managed at the same time as all other patients on the trauma half of the main ED.  The contrast in care models provides for different aspects of training at each site.

Gary Methodist Hospital

Gary Methodist is the newest addition to our training sites, starting in July 2009.  Gary Methodist Hospital, also known as the Northlake Campus, serves Gary, Indiana and is located 25 miles from downtown Chicago.  The rotations at Gary provide the residents an opportunity to work in a busy inner-city ED with a heavy trauma population (the murder rate in Gary is 80 per 100,000, earning it the title, “Murder Capital of the World”).  There are no other residents at the Methodist hospitals, so the residents have the chance to work in a true “community environment” while still being exposed to a patient population that is diverse and challenging.  Gary’s population is 84% African American and 30% of the households are headed by single women.  Twenty-five percent of Gary’s population lives below the poverty line and only 10% of the population has a college degree or higher. 

Site Statistics (Northlake and Southlake campus combined)

Inpatient Bed Distribution (621 Total Beds) 

• 507 – Adult
• 36 - Pediatrics
• 47 - Progressive Care Unit
• 39 – Rehab
• 16 - Adult Psych
• 20 - Adolescent Psych
• 15 - Neonatal

The Emergency Department

• Visits 53,550
• Admissions 11,160

Advocacy and Community

• $27,470,000 – total charity care in 2008
• $28,511,618 – total unpaid cost of public programs in 2005
• $793,669 – amount spent on community service and educational activities annually

Community Payor Mix (based on charges)

• Managed Care 25.3%*
• Medicare 46.4%*
• Medicaid 19.3%*
• Uninsured 9.0%*