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University of Chicago Medical Center

The University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago. It is the flagship campus for The University of Chicago Medicine system and was established in 1898.[2] Affiliated with and located on The University of Chicago campus, it also serves as the teaching hospital for Pritzker School of Medicine. Primary medical facilities on campus include the Center for Care and Discovery, Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital, and Comer Children's Hospital.

About[edit]

Today, UChicago Medicine comprises The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; The University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, a section committed to scientific discovery; and The University of Chicago Medical Center. Twelve Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine have been affiliated with The University of Chicago Medicine.[3]


University of Chicago Medicine physicians are members of The University of Chicago Physicians Group, which includes about 900 physicians and covers the full array of medical and surgical specialties. The physicians are faculty members of the Pritzker School of Medicine.


These organizations are headed by Mark Anderson, MD, PhD, Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, and executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago, and Thomas Jackiewicz, president of the University of Chicago Health System.[4]

Center for Care and Discovery, the primary adult inpatient care facility (opened in 2013 at a cost of $700 million)

Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital, adult inpatient care facility which houses the Burn and Complex Wound Center

including the university's Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center

Comer Children's Hospital

University of Chicago Medicine Family Birth Center, a maternity and women's hospital

Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine, an outpatient care facility

Pritzker School of Medicine

The Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery (KCBD)

The University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center (in the main campus and other locations)

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UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial

Calumet City

Bolingbrook

regional physician offices located throughout the Chicago area

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University of Chicago Medicine consists of:

Recognition[edit]

The 2010 rankings by U.S. News & World Report included the following 11 adult medical specialties: digestive disorders (6), cancer (15), endocrinology (18), kidney disease (21), respiratory disorders (21), heart (27), urology (28), geriatrics (29), gynecology (34), neurology and neurosurgery (36) and, ear, nose, and throat (38).[19] Until 2012, it was the only hospital in Illinois ever to be included on the magazine's "Honor Roll" of the best hospitals in the United States, and has made this coveted list 10 times.

University of Chicago Medicine

University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital

at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics Collection 1924-1993