Patient Care
The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System includes a 496-bed tertiary hospital, an outpatient facility, and 19 neighborhood clinics serving communities throughout the near west, south and southwest sides of Chicago.
The University of Illinois has been moving medicine forward for the benefit of the people of Illinois and beyond since 1859. Today, UI Hospital remains among the nation's leaders in clinical developments that are improving the practice of medicine, including minimally invasive surgery, live donor transplants and patient safety. Nationally recognized in dozens of specialties, University of Illinois physicians consistently receive the area's most NIH funded research grants.
As a leader in patient care, research and education, UI Hospital is one of the nation's few major academic medical centers to integrate all six of the health sciences - medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, applied health sciences and pharmacy, making it a source of positive and lasting differences in healthcare and in people's lives.
The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System is committed to changing medicine, and changing it for good through clinical advancements and accolades such as:
- The practice of neonatology and the management of high-risk pregnancies
- Liver and kidney transplantation which have led to recognition for delivering the best outcomes in the city
- Designation as an Illinois Stroke Center, ranking first in the state in the treatment of stroke and brain aneurysms
- Chicago's only national centers for autism, sickle-cell disease and pancreatic islet cell transplantation for the treatment of Diabetes
- A NACREE designated Children's Hospital with 10 centers of excellence to provide general and specialized pediatric care to children throughout the state. The 55-bed neonatal intensive care unit includes Level III beds, the highest care designation awarded by the state.
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