| John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County | |
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| Cook County Health | |
 Cook County Hospital before 1911 | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Illinois Medical District,Chicago,Illinois, United States |
| Coordinates | 41°52′20″N87°40′29″W / 41.87222°N 87.67472°W /41.87222; -87.67472[1] |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public hospital |
| Type | Teaching hospital |
| Affiliated university | Rush Medical College |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I Adult Trauma Center / Level I Pediatric Trauma Center |
| Beds | 464 |
| Public transit access |  CTA Blue Pink |
| History | |
| Opened | 1834; 191 years ago (1834) |
| Links | |
| Website | cookcountyhealth |
| Lists | Hospitals in Illinois |
Cook County Hospital | |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1912 |
| Architect | Gerhardt, Paul Sr.; Griffiths, John, & Sons |
| Architectural style | Beaux Arts |
| NRHP reference No. | 06001017[2] |
| Added to NRHP | November 8, 2006 |
TheJohn H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County (shortenedStroger Hospital, formerlyCook County Hospital) is apublic hospital inChicago, Illinois, United States. It is part of Cook County Health, along withProvident Hospital of Cook County and several related centers, which provides public primary, specialty, and tertiary healthcare services to residents ofCook County, Illinois. Cook County Health also includes CountyCare, a Medicaid managed care plan.[3]
Cook County Hospital was founded 1832, and became an innovativeteaching hospital. In 2001–2002, it moved into new quarters adjacent to its historicBeaux-Arts complex in theIllinois Medical District and was renamed for hospital board presidentJohn H. Stroger Jr.
Stroger employs 300 attending physicians and over 400 fellows and residents. It has 1.2 million square feet (110,000 m2) of floor space, and 464 beds. It is located at 1901 W. Harrison Street, and is a part of the 305 acre (1.2 km2)Illinois Medical District on Chicago's West Side, which is one of the largest concentrations of medical facilities in the world.[4]
Cook County Hospital, which opened in 1857, was used as a teaching hospital byRush Medical School until the Civil War, when it was transitioned to an army hospital. After the war, it continued its purpose as a center for medical education and founded the first medical internship in the country in 1866.
By the 1900s, the hospital was overseen by surgeons and physicians in Chicago who volunteered their services at the hospital, which was rebuilt in 1916. Regarded as one of the world's greatest teaching hospitals, many interns, residents, and graduate physicians came to see the medical and surgical advances. Innovations included the world's firstblood bank and surgical fixation of fractures.[5] In the 1930s, Dr.Bernard Fantus, after finding ways to lengthen the preservation of blood outside the body, invented and opened the world's first blood bank, the Cook County Hospital Blood Bank.[6] In the early 1960s, William Shoemaker, a student of the famed surgical physiologist,Francis Daniels Moore, spearheaded surgical critical care when he organized the first Burn and Trauma Unit.
In 1986,Agnes D. Lattimer was appointed medical director of Cook County Hospital, making her the first black woman to serve as medical director of a major American hospital.[7]
Cook County Hospital was renamed forJohn H. Stroger Jr., the then-president of the Cook County Board, in 2001.[8]
The new Cook County (Stroger) Hospital was opened in December 2002, and is housed in a facility located adjacent to the old hospital building.
The former Cook County Hospital building was renovated and reopened as a privately funded mixed use development, andHyatt Hotel.[9][10]
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