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At-a-Glance
Loyola
University Health System (LUHS) is a private, Jesuit
Catholic provider based in the western suburbs of Chicago,
and is a nationally recognized leader in providing specialty
and primary health-care services. It also is recognized
as a leader in conducting groundbreaking research in
areas such as the treatment of heart disease, cancer,
organ transplantation and neurological disorders.
Through its hub, Loyola
University Medical Center (LUMC), located on a 61-acre
campus in Maywood, Ill., Loyola has provided skilled,
compassionate care to patients for 35 years.
- The Loyola
University Hospital is a teaching, tertiary-care,
570 licensed-bed facility that includes a Level 1
trauma center and a Burn Center and is served by an aeromedical program that flies patients from a range of 150 miles.
- Ronald
McDonald® Children’s Hospital of Loyola University
Medical Center provides a network of general and specialty
services throughout Chicago’s western suburbs at Loyola’s
primary care and family health centers. The hospital-within-a-hospital
on the LUMC campus includes a 50-bed Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit, a 16-bed Pediatric Intensive Care unit
and 34 general pediatric beds.
- Cardinal
Bernardin Cancer Center houses facilities for
cancer research, diagnosis, treatment and prevention
under one roof.
- Center
for Heart & Vascular Medicine brings
together cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, radiologists,
peripheral vascular and other specialists to offer
patients an innovative, more integrated approach to
care.
- The Loyola
Outpatient Center located at LUMC is equipped
with general and specialized examination and treatment
rooms, clinical laboratories, a diagnostic radiology
department and ambulatory surgery suites.
The health system also
includes:
- An extensive network
of primary and specialty care centers conveniently
located in the western suburbs of Chicago
- Loyola University Chicago
Stritch
School of Medicine, which is a national role model
in reinventing medical education to prepare students
for today’s health care environment. Stritch also
supports several research efforts:
- Burn
and Shock Trauma Institute is a multidisciplinary
program that focuses upon prevention, treatment,
education and research issues relevant to trauma
and injury.
- Cardiovascular
Institute unites investigators who have backgrounds
in a variety of disciplines to foster cardiovascular
disease research to advance clinical care and
to enhance post-graduate education.
- Leischner
Institute provides opportunities for both
clinical faculty and students to improve curriculum
and inspire physicians to have the highest degree
of skill, integrity and compassion.
- Neiswanger
Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
focuses on ethics in the practice of medicine
and educating
health-care professionals to be effective leaders
for social justice in medicine and society.
- Neuroscience
Institute is a research program that focuses
on degenerative diseases and diseases of aging.
- Oncology
Institute coordinates Loyola’s interdisciplinary
approach to cancer research and treatment.
- Loyola University Chicago Niehoff School of Nursing offers top-rated master's
and doctoral degree programs at the Maywood Campus that educate professional
nurses for advanced practice roles and prepare nurse
leaders for 21st century health-care challenges.
LUHS
employs more than 6,800 people and has 1,324 faculty
members, 458 residents, 117 fellows, 552 medical
students, 68 RN graduate faculty and 325 RN graduate students.
Web Sites
Loyola University
Health System Web site: www.LoyolaMedicine.org
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Web site: www.meddean.luc.edu
Niehoff School of Nursing Web Site: www.luc.edu/nursing
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