Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago



Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Northwestern Medicine is the shared strategic vision of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to transform the future of healthcare and become one of the nation’s premier destinations for patient care. Each day, 26,500 clinical and administrative staff, medical and science faculty and medical students come together with a shared commitment to superior quality, academic excellence, scientific discovery and patient safety.
Northwestern Medicine has a national reputation for excellence and long history of collaborative, interdisciplinary medical education and research. In 2015, it was ranked 19th among the nation’s top research-intensive schools of medicine by U.S. News & World Report, and 18th in National Institutes of Health funding. More than 3,400 faculty members teach, practice medicine, conduct research at the medical school, and its academic portfolio includes full-time MD, MD-PhD, Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant programs, graduate medical education and continuing medical education. In affiliation with the member hospitals of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, the school offers 27 fully approved residency programs and dozens of advanced-level fellowships. During the 2015-2016 academic year, the school served 638 medical students, 879 PhD students and research fellows, 647 master’s and professional program students, and 1,135 residents and fellows. Last year, Northwestern Medicine scientists received $402.7 million in funding for research awards. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is an 894-bed academic medical center hospital that is the primary teaching affiliate for the Feinberg School of Medicine and has nearly 1,900 affiliated physicians representing virtually every medical specialty. The hospital is ranked No. 1 in Chicago and Illinois, as well as 11th in the nation according to the U.S. News & World Report 2015-2016 Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals, which ranks the hospital in 13 out of 16 clinical specialties. Northwestern Memorial is recognized for providing exemplary patient care and innovative advancements in a variety of clinical areas including cardiovascular care; oncology; neurology and neurosurgery; solid organ and soft tissue transplants; orthopaedics; and women’s health.

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