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Clinical Pathologists and the American Academy of Nurse Anesthetists. Abbott Laboratories and pharmaceutical giant Baxter are both based here too, along with the breastfeeding advocacy group La Leche League International, and Medela, the leading breast-pump manufacturer. Rush University Medical Center is one of eight Illinois hospitals to be named “Most Wired” by Hospitals and Health Networks magazine. Such hospitals show better outcomes in mortality rates, patient safety and average length of Pulmonary care at Children’s Memorial Hospital was named among the top 10 specialties of this kind in the nation by Child magazine. stay. The other Chicago area honorees include Advocate Health Care, Central DuPage Hospital, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Loyola University Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago. Another perennial health leader is the University of Chicago Hospitals, located on the South Side campus. The University of Chicago is the only Illinois hospital to be included in the UN&WR honor roll, and in 2007 ranked among the country’s best in 10 specialties. In 2004, the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital moved to a new home, featuring a 30-bed intensive care unit, a 47-bed neonatal ICU and private rooms for all non-ICU patients. Child magazine recently ranked the hospital as 2008 Chic a go L i ving fa r L e f t : P h o t o c o u r t e s y o f N o r t h w e s t e r N M e M o r i a L h o s P i ta L a leading children’s hospital nationally and the highest-rated children’s hospital in Chicago. Excellent pediatric care can also be found on the North Side at Children’s Memorial Hospital, which is affiliated with Northwestern University Medical School. In Januar y 2007, pulmonar y care at Children’s Memorial was named among the top 10 specialties of this kind in the nation by Child magazine. With almost 1,100 pediatric specialists focusing on 70 specialties in multiple locations, Children’s claims to provide more care to more young people than any other Chicago-area hospital. Children’s is one of the few pediatric hospitals with its own research center. The hospital is proud of its Center on Obesity Management and Prevention, which is coordinating and expanding research into the causes, treatment and prevention of childhood obesity. Children’s researchers also focus on Type 1 diabetes, asthma management and understanding behavior disorders and depression. Children’s also operates satellite facilities in every corner of the suburbs, including Arlington Heights, Glenview, Tinley Park, Westchester and Winfield. Other leaders in health care can be found throughout the suburbs as well. For example, Advocate Lutheran General in Park Ridge is a 617-bed teaching and research hospital. USN&WR recognized Lutheran General, one of the area’s largest hospitals, for its ear, nose and throat specialty and Ingalls Memorial Hospital for the sixth year in a row for its excellence in neurology and neurosurgery. Residents often travel miles to visit Edward Hospital in the western suburb of Naperville. In 2002, Edward opened the Edward Heart Hospital, a 71-bed dedicated facility, and recently completed a $21 million emergency department and surgical services addition to the main hospital. Edward rated a 100 Top Hospital for Heart Care in the U.S. by Solucient in 2006. ■ Rush University Medical Center was named to the Companies That Care honor roll in 2007. c h i c a g o l i v i n g m a g. c o m 67 http://www.chicagolivingmag.com

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