UChicago Medicine at a Glance
One of the Nation's Leading Academic Medical Institutions
Since opening its first hospital in 1927, the University of Chicago Medicine has grown into an integrated academic and community health system. Today, UChicago Medicine unites a series of leading, mission-driven organizations, including the University of Chicago Medical Center, Ingalls Memorial Hospital, the UChicago Medicine Care Network, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division. With roughly 13,000 employees, UChicago Medicine pursues impactful solutions and seeks to elevate the human experience with knowledge and health care.
Centered in historic, tree-lined Hyde Park — on the University of Chicago campus — UChicago Medicine also has dozens of outpatient clinics around the Chicago area, including locations in downtown Chicago, the south suburbs and Northwest Indiana.
UChicago Medicine's outpatient facilities are conveniently located throughout the region, from River East, Printers Row and the South Loop in the heart of Chicago to Orland Park, Tinley Park, Flossmoor, Calumet City and South Holland in the south suburbs.
In addition, UChicago Medicine’s advanced specialists in cancer, heart care, orthopaedics and other specialties help patients through clinical partnerships and joint venture programs in New Lenox, Kankakee and Northwest Indiana, among other locations.
Primary Medical Facilities
- The Center for Care and Discovery, a state-of-the-art hospital on the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park with a focus on cancer, digestive diseases, neurosciences, advanced surgery and high-tech medical imaging.
- Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital, dedicated to inpatient general medicine and a medical simulation center to train physicians, nurses, other clinicians and medical school students.
- Comer Children's Hospital, devoted to advanced pediatric care and featuring a modern Family Birth Center, located adjacent to one of the region’s most advanced neonatal intensive care units.
- Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM), a state-of-the-art outpatient facility with the full spectrum of preventive, diagnostic and treatment services.
- UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, which brings University of Chicago cancer expertise to a convenient community setting in Will County.
UChicago Medicine operates a network of outpatient clinics and physician offices throughout the suburbs and the city of Chicago.
- UChicago Medicine - Orland Park, a four-story outpatient services center that features primary and specialty care, including an on-site lab, infusion suites, radiology and radiation oncology services, along with consultations for digestive diseases and advanced surgical and vascular procedures.
- UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial has major outpatient centers in Tinley Park, Flossmoor and Calumet City, offering walk-in urgent care treatment as well as an array of primary care and specialty care services.
- A smaller urgent care and occupational medicine outpatient clinic is located in South Holland.
- UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, which brings University of Chicago cancer expertise to a convenient community setting in Will County.
- UChicago Medicine also has partnerships and joint ventures with several hospitals including Edward Hospital - Naperville, Mercy Hospital, Weiss Memorial Hospital, Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee and others.
- UChicago Medicine Physicians operates a network of physician offices throughout the south suburbs of Chicago.
Fast Facts
Fiscal 2022, unless otherwise noted
| Licensed Beds | 811 |
| Employees (includes Medical Center and Biological Sciences Division) | 10,562 |
| Attending Physicians | 900 |
| Nurses (includes RNs and LPNs from Medical Center and Biological Sciences Division) | 3,014 |
| Residents & Fellows | 1,051 |
| Outpatient Encounters (includes clinic visits, procedures, surgeries, emergency room, and observation stays in acute care areas) | 490,361* |
| Hospital Patient Days | 240,441* |
| Emergency Room Visits (75,108 adult and 34,563 pediatric)* | 109,671 |
| Hospital Admissions | 34,116* |
| Surgeries | 24,497* |
| Births | 2,873* |
| Operating Revenue | $2.60 billion* |
| Community Benefits and Services (includes Medicaid and Medicare losses, charity care, unrecoverable patient debt, medical education and research, contributions/donations and uncategorized benefits from data prepared for the state and IRS for fiscal 2021) | $520.4 million* (FY2021) |
| Uncompensated Care (includes Medicare and Medicaid program losses, charity care, unrecoverable patient debt) | $337.8 million* (FY2016) |
| Affiliated Nobel Prize Winners | 12 |
| NIH Funding | $236 million |
* Preliminary figures