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McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University

The McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University is a consortium of urban, suburban, specialized, and general hospitals, as well as the University, that offers integrated graduate medical education programs to medical school graduates interested in further training. Chartered in 1966 and honoring the late Foster G. and Mary McGaw, the center offers a greater range of clinical and research experiences than individual teaching hospitals are able to provide, with staffing by many nationally prominent physicians and scientists who consider teaching a primary goal. At present, 80 fully accredited residency and fellowship programs are available in surgical and medical specialties.

Northwestern University
Northwestern is a major private university founded in 1851. It has an annual enrollment of more than 16,000 students in 12 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools on two lakefront campuses in Evanston and Chicago. (Outside the United States, Northwestern operates a campus in Doha, Qatar.)  The medical school is located on the 25-acre Chicago campus, close to several hospitals of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) is one of the country's premier academic medical center hospitals and serves as the primary teaching affiliate of the Feinberg School of Medicine and the McGaw Medical Center. NMH provides a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services and delivers care through its Feinberg Pavilion, Prentice Women's Hospital and Stone Institute of Psychiatry. In 2010, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital in north suburban Lake County joined the Northwestern family through an affiliation that combines the strengths of both organizations and further expands access to care throughout the region. NMH is a major referral center for the Midwest and beyond, and is a recognized national leader in patient safety and nursing excellence, honored through Magnet designation.  

Children’s Memorial Hospital
Since its founding in 1882, Children’s Memorial Hospital has grown into one of the nation’s leading centers for pediatric medicine and research. Its expertise spans 70 pediatric specialties, including organ transplantation, oncology, cardiology, gastroenterology, surgery, psychiatric care, and more. Each year, Children’s records more than 500,000 outpatient visits, 20,000 surgeries and more than 12,000 inpatient admissions. With 270 beds, the hospital is the pediatric training center of Feinberg and McGaw and it provides residencies in both pediatrics and pediatric surgery.. Children’s Memorial Hospital’s research center is also one of the 29 interdisciplinary research centers and institutes of Feinberg. Currently located in Lincoln Park, as of June 2012, the pediatric hospital will move to Northwestern’s Chicago campus and take on a new name – the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Founded in 1954, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) is one of the world's largest free-standing hospitals especially designed for patient care, education and research in physical medicine and rehabilitation. RIC has been designated the #1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America by U.S. News & World Report every year since 1991. It has one of the largest and most prestigious physiatry residency programs in the United States. RIC also operates day-rehabilitation centers and outpatient centers throughout Chicagoland and maintains strategic alliances with healthcare providers throughout Illinois and north central Indiana.

Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
The Jesse Brown VA Medical Center provides medical, surgical, rehabilitative and mental health care to veterans in Chicago and surrounding areas. It has an extensive research and development program and provides training for residents from the McGaw Medical Center. The VA Medical Center has an acute-care facility located on Damen Avenue in Chicago, along with four community-based outpatient clinics.  These facilities are affiliated with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois at Chicago. All attending physicians at the VA Medical Center have dual appointments at both schools.

Cook County Bureau of Health Services
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital is part of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services, the largest component of the safety net for healthcare in Chicago and suburban Cook County. The hospital is located in Chicago's near west side. McGaw residents train in obstetrics and gynecology; urology; neurosurgery; ear, nose and throat (ENT); and orthopaedics.

Norwegian American Hospital
Norwegian American Hospital, a 200-bed, acute-care facility on the near northwest side of Chicago, and the Erie Family Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving 34,000 low-income, underinsured and uninsured Chicagoans, have become the primary sites for McGaw’s new family medicine residency program. Established in 1894, Norwegian American is a family- and community-centered hospital offering a wide variety of health care programs and services including a comprehensive array of women's health care with an incorporated midwife program.

MacNeal Health Network
The MacNeal Health Network serves the healthcare needs of more than 1 million people in the near west and southwest suburbs of Chicago. Along with MacNeal Hospital, their network is comprised of 10 primary care centers, a resource library, a school for at-risk children and many other programs. The fully accredited teaching hospital offers community-based general surgery training for McGaw residents and Feinberg medical students.

Methodist Hospitals
Methodist Hospitals is a not-for-profit, community-based healthcare system. Their primary service areas are Lake and Porter Counties in Indiana, and their network includes two full-service campuses, two outpatient centers, and a rehabilitation center. McGaw residents gain emergency medicine experience in a community hospital setting that serves indigent patients at their Gary, Indiana, campus.

 

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