About Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
Fiscal Year 2009
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is the corporate parent of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Foundation.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, located on the downtown medical campus, is one of the country's premier academic medical center hospitals and a major referral center for the Midwest and beyond. We provide a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services and deliver care through 854 beds in our Feinberg Pavilion, Prentice Women's Hospital and Stone Institute of Psychiatry. As the primary teaching hospital for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, we work in collaboration to advance healthcare through clinical innovation, medical education and breakthrough research.
Our history dates back 145 years to the early work of our predecessor institutions, Passavant and Wesley Memorial hospitals, both distinguished by a dedication to provide compassionate care regardless of a patient's ability to pay. We continue this proud tradition within our hospital facilities and through our longstanding partnerships with community health providers, making quality care and services available to the medically underserved.
Virtually every medical specialty is represented by the medical staff of 1,656 physicians who also carry faculty appointments with Feinberg. Eleven of our medical specialties are ranked among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report magazine with six of them ranking the highest in Illinois. We have earned Magnet recognition, the gold standard for nursing excellence and are distinguished as one of America's "100 Most Wired" hospitals by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine for state-of-the-art technology that supports patient care.
Recognized as a national leader in quality and patient safety, we have earned one of the nation's top awards for quality by the National Committee for Quality Health Care. We consistently are named to The Leapfrog Group's "Top Hospitals" list for quality and safety of care practices. We also earned a place on Working Mother magazine's list of "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" and in fiscal year 2009 were named to the magazine's "Best in Class" list for Training and Development.
Consumers in the eight-county Chicago region have ranked Northwestern Memorial as their "most preferred" hospital in market research for 15 consecutive years. In the same survey, we have been recognized as the sole winner of the "Consumer Choice" award for having the best doctors, best nurses, best overall quality and best image and reputation for five consecutive years.
- Northwestern Memorial Foundation raises funds to support the mission and strategic goals of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Through fundraising, grantmaking and stewardship, the foundation perpetuates the hospital's dedication to clinical innovation, scientific discovery and improving the health of our community. During fiscal year 2009, the foundation raised $41.5 million and made grants of $27.5 million to hospital programs, research, education and community service initiatives. Grants made to community partners including Near North Health Service Corporation, Erie Family Health Center and the James and Catherine Denny Primary Care and Preventive Medicine Center at the Lawson House YMCA continue to improve access to quality healthcare in medically underserved neighborhoods in Chicago.
- Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group is a primary care medical group practice with 104 physicians and allied healthcare providers covering the specialties of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, dermatology, occupational medicine, integrative medicine, wellness and disease prevention and executive health. Patient care and services are provided in 12 medical offices located in the Chicago neighborhoods of Streeterville, Bucktown, Lincoln Park, the Loop, River North and in north suburban Northbrook. There were 329,933 patient visits provided during fiscal year 2009.
- Northwestern Memorial Insurance Company is an integral part of Northwestern Memorial's risk financing structure. It facilitates the provision of professional and general liability coverage to the hospital and its subsidiary and affiliated organizations, as well as professional liability coverage to Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, a multi-specialty physician group whose members are on the medical staff at Northwestern Memorial and on the faculty of Feinberg.
- Northwestern HealthCare Corporation contracts with managed care payors on behalf of the hospital's medical staff, who are Northwestern HealthCare Corporation members, and coordinates efforts to ensure the highest quality clinical care and physician service. During fiscal year 2009, its 18 payor agreements provided 4 million Chicago-area residents with access to physicians on the medical staff at Northwestern Memorial.
| Inpatient Admissions | 47,739 |
| Patient Days | 223,313 |
| Average Daily Census | 629 |
| Average Length of Stay | 4.68 days |
| Deliveries | 11,868 |
| Hospital Outpatient Registrations | 545,786 |
| Surgical Cases – Inpatient | 12,746 |
| Surgical Cases – Outpatient | 19,577 |
| Emergency Department Visits | 80,696 |
| Beds | 854 |
| Medical Staff | 1,656 |
| Employees | 6,645 |
| Volunteer Hours | 66,700 |