Fact Sheet: The University of Chicago Medical Center
The University of Chicago Medical Center, an academic medical center based in Hyde Park on the campus of the University of Chicago, is a not-for-profit corporation which includes:
- Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital, the primary adult patient care facility
- University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, devoted to the medical needs of children
- Chicago Lying-in Hospital, a maternity and women's hospital
- Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM), a state-of-the-art ambulatory-care facility with the full spectrum of preventive, diagnostic, and treatment functions
- University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, one of the nation's premier medical schools
- Our patient care system also includes physician offices in several Chicago locations, the south suburbs, and northwestern Indiana; three dialysis centers; and affiliations with several hospitals including LaRabida Children's Hospital, staffed by University of Chicago pediatricians, MacNeal Hospital and others.
The Medical Center offers the full range of specialty and primary care services for adults and children, including the following notable programs:
- Cancer
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatrics
- Heart
- Kidney disease
- Neurosciences
- Orthopaedics
- Respiratory disease
- Surgery
- Transplantation
- Women's services
University of Chicago Medical Center
Patient Care Fast Facts: Fiscal Year 2006
Average Beds in Service |
596 |
Admissions |
26,933 |
Patient Days |
174,995 |
Deliveries |
2,773 |
Visits to the DCAM |
394,718 |
Emergency Visits |
79,534 |
Revenues for patient care at the University of Chicago Medical Center were more than $869 million. In addition, the Medical Center is one of the largest providers of uncompensated care in Illinois and provides millions of dollars in unreimbursed care every year.
The Medical Center and the University are the largest employers on the South Side of Chicago. The Medical Center has approximately 9,500 employees, many of whom live in the Hyde Park area. Care is provided by more than 700 attending physicians--most are full-time University faculty members--620 residents and fellows, and more than 1,000 nurses.
In honor of excellence in nursing practice, the Medical Center was awarded Magnet Recognition in 2007--the highest level of recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
A specially equipped and staffed medical helicopter based at a helipad atop the Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital serves the emergency care center's Level-I pediatric trauma unit. The helicopter also serves several special area-wide treatment centers based at the hospital, including regional burn, electrical trauma, and perinatal units. The University of Chicago Aeromedical Network flies more than 650 missions each year.
Closely linked in our effort to provide outstanding patient care, investigate the cause and treatment of disease, and educate physicians and scientists, the Medical Center forms the clinical arm of the University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences. Special programs include:
- National Cancer Institutes-designated Cancer Research Center
- National Diabetes Research and Training Center (one of six in the country)
- National Institutes of Health-funded General Clinical Research Center (among the first such centers nationwide)
- The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics (considered the leading ethics training program in the United States)
- The Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy
- The Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research
- The Tang Center for Herbal Medicine Research
- The Center for Health and the Social Sciences
- Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Mental Retardation Research Center
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (for research in molecular biology and molecular genetics)
- The Brain Research Institute
- The Institute for Cardiovascular Research
- The Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
The Medical Center offers world-class transplantation programs in several areas. The Hospitals is a leader in transplantation of the liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, heart, bone marrow and other tissues, multiple-organ transplantation, and in research in transplant immunology. The Medical Center campus includes 34 buildings, with more 3.8 million gross square feet for research, teaching, and patient care.
Mitchell Hospital
Built in 1983, Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital is our primary adult inpatient facility and includes the emergency department and the Arthur Rubloff Intensive Care Tower. The tower houses the University of Chicago Medical Center Burn and Electrical Trauma Units and intensive care units for transplantation, neurology and neurosurgery, cardiothoracic care, general surgery, and general medicine patients.
University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital
The University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital is a tertiary care teaching hospital dedicated to preserving the health of children through patient care, education, and research into the causes and cures of childhood diseases. Comer Children's Hospital is a major referral center operating 155 beds. The new state-of-the-art $130-million seven-story facility provides an ultra-modern yet child- and family-friendly setting for all inpatient children's health services at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
In addition, it includes one of the country's largest and most advanced newborn intensive-care units (47 Level-III beds, 24 Level-II beds). The hospital forms the center of a regional perinatal network that provides nine area hospitals with consultation as well as transport services for approximately 16,000 births, more than one-third of them considered high-risk. The network is committed to reducing fetal and infant mortality throughout the surrounding urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Chicago Lying-in
Chicago Lying-in has state-of-the-art obstetrical and gynecological facilities and a leading program in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. The facilities include eight labor rooms, three delivery rooms, and two birthing rooms, as well as a 17-bed gynecology unit and four obstetric operating rooms. Nearly 2,800 babies were delivered at Chicago Lying-in last year--many to women with high-risk pregnancies.
Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine
The Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM), a six-story, 525,000 square-foot building, brings together most of the Medical Center's diagnostic and outpatient treatment services. The building includes:
- 315 exam rooms
- 90 rooms for outpatient procedures, including eight operating rooms for ambulatory surgery
- Areas dedicated to chemotherapy, neurophysiology, heart, and gastrointestinal diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
- Two helical CT scanners that allow fast, detailed imaging and 3-D reconstruction
- Three state-of-the-art echoplanar MRI scanners
- PET/CT scanner for cancer diagnosis and staging
- A fully digital chest X-ray machine
- A dedicated breast imaging center with computer-assisted diagnosis
- Direct digital linkage between radiology's X-ray image archives and clinics
- Radiation therapy clinical systems and technology that includes four linear accelerators and two wide-bore CT simulators for precise dose planning and delivery. All four linear accelerators are capable of providing intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). Two of the four linear accelerators can also perform image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) as well as stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
- Both of the CT simulators are wide-bore units that can comfortably scan patients positioned with treatment set-up accessories, as well as plus-sized patients. State-of-the-art treatment planning software can fuse images from PET, CT, and other diagnostic modalities to facilitate precise planning.
The DCAM is designed to provide the best possible setting for the healthcare of the future, bringing the latest medical technology and scientific know-how to each patient in the most convenient, efficient, and comforting environment imaginable.
University of Chicago Physicians Group
The University of Chicago Physicians Group, the largest group practice in the metropolitan area, includes more than 700 physicians, most of whom hold full-time faculty appointments at the University of Chicago. Besides practicing at the University of Chicago Medical Center and its off-campus locations, members of the physicians group provide a variety of services at other Chicago-area hospitals.
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
The University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine is ranked among the top medical schools in United States and is the highest ranked of any in Illinois. Although smaller than most of the leading medical schools, with 104 new students each year, the medical school is known for being rigorously selective, with more than 6,000 applicants each year, and for its outstanding research programs. Medical school researchers were ranked fifth in the country in 2006 for research funding per faculty member, with average annual grant support from the NIH per physician-scientist of more than $255,000.
LaRabida Children's Hospital and Research Center
LaRabida, a facility that is dedicated to caring for children with chronic illness, disabilities, or who have been abused, is the site of the following affiliated services:
- Allergy, immunology, and pulmonology
- Child abuse and neglect
- Chronic disease, including the Chicago Children's Diabetes Center
- Developmental pediatrics
- Rehabilitation
- Rheumatology
- Sickle cell disease
MacNeal Memorial Hospital
MacNeal Memorial Hospital, an acute care hospital located in Berwyn, Illinois, is a training site for University of Chicago medical students and Medical Center residents.
