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| Endeavor Health | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Illinois, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Not-for-profit |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine[citation needed] |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Evanston -Level I Glenbrook -Level II Highland Park -Level II Skokie -Level II Swedish -Level II Northwest -Level II |
| Beds | over 1200 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1891; 134 years ago (1891) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Illinois |
Endeavor Health is ahealth system in theChicago metropolitan area. It was formed in 2022 through the merger of NorthShore University Health System and Edward-Elmhurst Health.[1]
As of 2023, Endeavor operates nine hospitals.[1] As of 2021, its medical group operated 70 offices with approximately 800 primary and specialty care physicians, as well as a Research Institute and Foundation. In total, the health system employs more than 10,000 people.[needs update]
Endeavor has a teaching affiliation with theUniversity of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.[not verified in body]
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NorthShore was founded as Evanston Hospital in 1891 during an outbreak of typhoid fever.[2] In the early 1900s Evanston Hospital expanded and became a teaching hospital.[2]
Louis W. Sauer developed a vaccine forwhooping cough (pertussis) at Evanston Hospital in the 1920s.[2] The hospital became affiliated withNorthwestern University and theFeinberg School of Medicine in the 1930s.[2]
Evanston Hospital expanded to 475 beds during the 1940s and established intensive care, cardiac care, kidney dialysis center and neonatology units.[citation needed]
Evanston Hospital opened Glenbrook Hospital in 1977, and acquired Highland Park Hospital in 2000.
In 1981, the Kellogg Cancer Care Center was established, the first cancer center built by a community hospital in the nation.The original Kellogg Cancer Care Center was demolished in 2008 and a new building opened in 2010. The four-story building incorporated the original center and houses all oncology services in the hospital. Its 22,000 square feet doubled the space of the previous center and provided space for multi-disciplinary care, including onsite patient access to medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiologists, pharmacists, financial aid and support staff.[3]
Formerly known as Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) while affiliated withNorthwestern University Medical School, the integrated healthcare delivery system changed its academic affiliation and name in September 2008.[citation needed]
The driving force behind the name change from "Evanston Northwestern Healthcare" to "NorthShore University Health System" was the result of a termination of the academic affiliation with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, thereby making the word "Northwestern" in the ENH name no longer appropriate. ENH subsequently established an academic affiliation with the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, thus the word "University" in its new title.[citation needed]
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Highland Park Hospital joined NorthShore in 2000.[4] Skokie Hospital, formerlyRush North Shore Medical Center, was transferred to NorthShore in January 2009.[citation needed]
NorthShore University HealthSystem absorbedSwedish (Covenant) Hospital in 2020 andNorthwest Community Hospital in 2021.
In 2022, ENH merged withEdward-Elmhurst Health, creating a nine hospital group.[5] The merger closed January 5,2022, with the combined entity now known as Endeavor.[6]
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Evanston Hospital is located north of downtown Evanston at 2650 Ridge Avenue at its intersection with Central Street. It serves as the flagship facility for NorthShore.
The hospital has aLevel I trauma center and a Women's Hospital and Cardiovascular Care Center. The Kellogg Cancer Center recently[when?] opened in its brand new facility on the campus.[citation needed]
Glenbrook Hospital sits at 2100 Pfingsten Road inGlenview,Illinois. The facility was built in 1977. Glenbrook offers cardiac catheterization and ultra fast CT scan, total hip and knee replacement, the Eye and Vision Center for LASIK and other eye surgery, and neurological services including a new sleep center, a cognitive and memory disorder program and a Parkinson's Disease clinic. The hospital serves the communities of Glenview and Northbrook, as well as the surrounding communities. The hospital serves as a point of dispensing (POD) facility for disaster response.[citation needed]
The hospital has aLevel II trauma center and Fast Track service for patients with minor illnesses and injuries.[citation needed]
Highland Park Hospital (HPH) is located a 777 Park Avenue West inHighland Park,Illinois The hospital joined ENH in 2000.
HPH's Kellogg Cancer Center has facilities to offer care to oncology patients inLake County. The hospital offers care for the following types of cancer: thoracic and lung; hematology; breast; ovarian; head and neck; melanoma and sarcoma; gastrointestinal; prostate; and stomach. Highland Park Hospital also offers astroke center. Highland Park features a new Ambulatory Care Center and Wound Care Center. The hospital serves as a point of dispensing (POD) facility for disaster response.[citation needed]
Skokie Hospital, formerly Rush North Shore Medical Center, joined NorthShore University HealthSystem in January 2009.[7] The hospital servesSkokie and the surrounding communities and is located at 9600 Gross Point Road.
Swedish Hospital, formerly Swedish Covenant Hospital, joined NorthShore University HealthSystem in January 2020. The hospital serves the north side of Chicago.
Northwest Community Hospital, as of January 2021 joined the Northshore University HealthSystem as part of buyout of Northwest Community Healthcare. The Northwest Community Healthcare Group was to be merged into the NorthShore University HealthSystem within the years ahead.
Established in 1996, the NorthShore Research Institute serves more than 1,000 research projects and more than 150 externally funded research faculty. Priority areas for research are medical genetics, cancer, neurosciences, advanced imaging research, cardiovascular, peri-neonatal and outcomes research. The Research Institute has approximately 125,000 net square feet of research space.[citation needed]
Included is a collaborative building with Northwestern University on its Evanston Campus called the Arthur and Gladys Pancoe-NorthShore University HealthSystem Life Sciences Pavilion, and the Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Building on the Evanston Hospital campus. Emphasis is on translational and clinical research allowing discoveries from the basic sciences and engineering to be brought promptly to the bedside. Funding from theNational Institutes of Health (NIH) places the hospitals of NorthShore University HealthSystem at No. 9 among multi-specialty independent research hospitals in the country.[8]
In 2021, Northshore University HealthSystem was sued by employees who were denied a religious exemption from taking the COVID-19 injection and fired from their jobs. As part of the settlement awarded in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois, Northshore was ordered to rehire the workers and pay them a total of $10.3 million in damages.[9] The dozen plus dismissed employees from Northshore were joined by other fired healthcare workers for a class-action suit on behalf of 500 individuals, each of whom was awarded $25,000 plus additional monetary damages if they later complied and took the vaccine. While this was not the first legal decision protecting workers from being permanently fired for refusing the shot, it did set precedent as the first case in the U.S. in which petitioners were awarded monetary damages for abrogation of their Title VII rights.[10][11]
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