Northwestern Medicine formerly Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, is a non-profit

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affiliated with the

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is the medical school of Northwestern University and is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1859, Feinberg offers a full-time Doctor of Medicine degree p ...

, in

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. Members include research hospitals, acute care facilities, and academic centers. Northwestern Medicine's flagship hospital is the nationally-ranked,

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located on Northwestern University’s Chicago campus in Streeterville, Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship campus for Northwestern Medicine and the primary ...

which is also the regions tertiary hospital for adults. Along with their 10 hospitals and physicians offices, Northwestern Medicine operates a network of

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s across the region. While not directly operated with Northwestern Medicine, the network maintains close affiliations with the nearby Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and the

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, collaborating with them for many of their services.

History

Northwestern Medicine, formerly Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, was effectively formed in 2009 when Northwestern Memorial Hospital and

Lake Forest Hospital Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital (NLFH) is a community-based hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois and a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, one of the nation's premiere academic medical centers. The hospital was establish ...

announce an affiliation agreement, with the finalized merger completed the next year, in 2010. In 2014 Northwestern Medicine affiliated with Cadence Health adding four more hospitals to their lineup, including Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital. In 2015 Northwestern Medicine merged with the KishHealth System adding two hospitals including the Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital. In 2018, Northwestern Medicine absorbed the Centegra Health System. In December 2020 it was announced that Northwestern Medicine would be merging with Palos Health adding another hospital to Northwestern Medicine's network, in an agreement with no money changing hands. This merger occurred after Palos previously denied Loyola Health's request to merge in 2019. As of October 2021, Northwestern Medicine included eleven hospitals.

Hospitals

(incomplete list)

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located in the

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neighborhood of

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. It is the flagship campus for Northwestern Medicine and the primary teaching hospital for the

. Northwestern Memorial provides a total of 894 inpatient beds and encompasses more than 3 million square feet of medical buildings within the Northwestern University Chicago campus in the Streeterville neighborhood downtown. Nearly every medical specialty is represented by over 1,900 physicians on the medical staff at Northwestern Memorial who also carry faculty appointments with Feinberg School of Medicine. As of 2018, total hospital-based research funding topped $484 million placing Northwestern in the top 15 for the

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ranking among all American Medical Schools.

Prentice Women’s Hospital

Prentice Women’s Hospital is an acute care women's hospital located adjacent to both Northwestern Memorial and the Lurie Children's Hospital. The hospital provides tertiary-level obstetric, gynecological, and neonatal care to patients from the entire region. The hospital has 256 beds, with 86 AAP verified level III neonatal intensive care unit beds, 32 labor and delivery beds, 86 healthy bassinets, and 10 operating rooms. The hospital is directly attached to the Lurie Children's Hospital via skybridge because Lurie physicians provide care on Prentice's neonatal intensive care units.

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center (Lurie Cancer Center), is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center located within the

in the

neighborhood of

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. The 1 of 2 NCI-designated cancer centers in Illinois, Lurie Cancer Center is composed of collaborative academic and research efforts between the

, Northwestern Medicine,

Lurie Children's Hospital Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, formerly Children's Memorial Hospital and commonly known as Lurie Children's, is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Chicago, Illinois. The hospital has 3 ...

, the

and the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Additionally, the center is a member of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium.

Lake Forest Hospital

Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital (NLFH) is a community-based hospital in

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and a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, one of the nation's premiere academic medical centers. On February 1, 2010, Lake Forest Hospital completed an affiliation agreement with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and became Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital. The 201-bed hospital is on a campus in Lake Forest and provides a comprehensive array of

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and

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medical and surgical services.

Central DuPage Hospital

Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) is a 390-bed

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, US, one of seven hospitals operated by Northwestern Medicine. CDH became one of the first hospitals in the Chicago area to perform open-heart surgery on a beating heart, and was ranked 8th in the Best Hospitals in Illinois list by U.S. News, but not nationally ranked in any specialty.

Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital

Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital is a 120-bed hospital in

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, dedicated to the delivery of physical rehabilitative medicine. Marianjoy has a network of inpatient, subacute, and outpatient sites and physician clinics around the

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including Oak Park, Oakbrook Terrace, and Wheaton.

McHenry Hospital

Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital is a

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. Previously, the hospital was called Northern Illinois Medical Center and later Centegra Hospital - McHenry. The hospital is a division of Northwestern Medicine since 2018 when Northwestern Medicine partnered with Centegra Health System.

Woodstock Hospital

Northwestern Medicine Woodstock Hospital (formerly Centegra Hospital - Woodstock) is a hospital in

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. The hospital is a division of Northwestern Medicine since 2018 when Northwestern Medicine partnered with Centegra Health System.

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