Clinical Facilities
Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center
Prentice Women’s Hospital and Maternity Center of Northwestern Memorial Hospital offers a comprehensive, patient-centered program for women’s and infants’ health. Prentice Hospital is the largest obstetrics and gynecology program in a 14-state region and the most popular birthing center in Illinois. Volume has grown tremendously in recent years, with more than 10,600 births in 2006. This represents a significant increase from a decade ago, when 4,200 babies were born at Prentice. Due to this tremendous growth, the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Board of Directors and the Northwestern Memorial Corporation Executive Committee approved the development of a new women's hospital, and construction began in 2004. This project was completed in October 2007.
The medical staff at Prentice provides a full range of obstetric and gynecologic care and includes expertise in all of the related subspecialties. The Maternal-Fetal Medicine Program specializes in handling high-risk obstetrics, including multiple gestation and diabetes in pregnancy. Another clinical care and research program focuses on treatment of patients infected with HIV. A multidisciplinary team of physicians and staff performs diagnosis and treatment of fetal anomalies. The Level III Renee Schine Crown Special Care Nursery has 86 beds and is staffed at all times by neonatologists. These are a few examples of the range of obstetric and gynecologic activities at Prentice.
Coupled with a busy obstetrics volume is a state-of-the-art gynecology service. Among the significant features are the dedicated and separate gynecologic operating rooms. Both inpatient and outpatient surgeries are performed, including approximately 1,500 diagnostic and operative laparoscopies and hysteroscopies. Gynecologic oncologists perform approximately 1,000 procedures for women with cancers of the reproductive system and have recently initiated an ovarian cancer screening program to monitor women at high risk for this disease. The Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility provides a full range of infertility treatments including approximately 600 in vitro fertilization cycles last year.
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) consists of three hospitals: Evanston Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital, and Highland Park Hospital. These hospitals provide a full range of specialty and subspecialty services. Virtually all ENH physicians are faculty members at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and are board-certified in their specialty areas. An independent nationwide study by HCIA, Inc. and William H. Mercer has named Evanston and Glenbrook Hospitals in the Top 100 Hospitals and Top 15 Major Teaching Hospitals.
Evanston Hospital is a 420-bed hospital and forms the nucleus of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. It is located 16 miles north of downtown Chicago, adjacent to the undergraduate campus of Northwestern University. Glenbrook Hospital is a 100-bed facility offering a variety of specialized services. Both hospitals are teaching facilities for Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
In 2006, nearly 3,800 women gave birth at Evanston Women's Hospital, and more than 4,000 outpatient visits occurred in the newly renovated clinic facilities. The continuum of care ranges from preconception planning through delivery and home care. There are 52 private post-partum rooms with separate rooming-in nurseries. Additionally, the State of Illinois has designated Evanston Hospital a Level III Perinatal Center for High Risk Obstetrics.
A comprehensive array of gynecologic services is also available at Evanston Hospital, including oncology, reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and urogynecology. In 2006, almost 800 major and more than 794 minor gynecological operations took place at Evanston Hospital.