Ascension Saint Francis Hospital is a teaching hospital in

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, a northern suburb of

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. Its facilities include a Level 1 Trauma and Heart Center, and it has 270 general

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care beds.

History

Saint Francis Hospital of Evanston was founded in 1900 by the pastor of the nearby St. Nicholas Church (

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Resurrection Health Care Presence Health was a health care system formed by the merger of two Chicago-area Catholic health care systems, Resurrection Health Care and Provena Health. At the time, Presence Health was the second-largest health care system in the Chicago metro ...

took over Saint Francis Hospital in 1977. When Resurrection Health Care merged with Provena Health to form

Presence Health Presence Health was a health care system formed by the merger of two Chicago-area Catholic health care systems, Resurrection Health Care and Provena Health. At the time, Presence Health was the second-largest health care system in the Chicago metro ...

in 2011, the hospital was renamed Presence Saint Francis Hospital. The hospital was again renamed when Presence Health merged into

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in 2017. In October 2021, Saint Francis Hospital became part of the Ascension healthcare system. AMITA Health was dissolved into two healthcare systems in 2022.

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* Buildings and structures in Evanston, Illinois Hospitals in Cook County, Illinois {{Illinois-hospital-stub