About Us The University of Chicago Medical Center comprises the Bernard Mitchell Hospital, Comer Children’s Hospital, the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine and a network of smaller clinics — all closely linked to the University of Chicago’s Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine. When the University of Chicago Medical Center opened its doors to the community in the fall of 1927, it had only two clinical departments: medicine and surgery. Since then, the medical campus has grown to include 60 adult and 44 pediatric specialties. The Medical Center is consistently recognized as a leading provider of sophisticated medical care. University of Chicago physician-scientists performed the first organ transplant and
the first bone marrow transplant in animal models, the first successful living-donor liver transplant, the first hormone therapy for cancer and the first successful application of cancer chemotherapy. Its researchers also discovered REM sleep and were the first to describe several of the stages of sleep. Twelve of the 87 Nobel Prize winners associated with the University of Chicago have received the prize for discoveries related to biology or medicine.
IN FY2011 568
9,500
Licensed Beds
Employees
(avg. 550 in service)
74,359 ER Visits
INCLUDING
700+
Physicians
800+
Residents and Fellows
1,500 Nurses
Nationally Ranked Medical Center In the U.S.News & World Report 2011–12 “Best Hospitals” survey, 12 adult and nine pediatric specialties at the University of Chicago Medical Center ranked among the top in the country. Those 21 top-ranked programs are more than at any other institution in Illinois. Adult Programs Digestive disorders (9) Cancer (14) Pulmonology (19) Diabetes, Endocrinology (23) Kidney Disease (28) Neurology, Neurosurgery (29) Ear, Nose and Throat (30) Urology (33) Geriatrics (34) Cardiology, heart surgery (35) Gynecology (39) Orthopedics (43)
Pediatric Programs Gastroenterology (30) Neurology , Neurosurgery (31) Neonatology (33) Pulmonology (35) Cancer (37) Urology (37) Diabetes, Endocrinology (42) Orthopedics (46) Nephrology (50)
146
Organs Transplanted
1,572
Babies Delivered
Medicaid Acute Care Days for Private Illinois Hospitals* 1. University of Chicago Medical Center 2. Northwestern Memorial Hospital 3. Advocate Christ Medical Center 4. Rush University Medical Center 5. OSF St. Francis Medical Center (Peoria) 6. Children’s Memorial Hospital 7. Mount Sinai Hospital 8. Loyola University Medical Center 9. Resurrection St. Mary of Nazareth 10. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
42,789 41,311 41,226 38,092 36,931 36,160 32,744 29,068 22,984 21,667
*Excluding normal nursery days Source: Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, for the state fiscal year ended June 30, 2010
Contact us
For more information about the University of Chicago Medicine’s programs and services or for an electronic version of this report, please visit www.uchospitals.edu. To schedule an appointment, please call 773-702-1000. 1