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Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is the corporate parent of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, one of the country's leading teaching hospitals, and Northwestern Memorial Foundation, which provides fundraising and grantmaking support for the hospital's mission and strategic goals. The hospital affiliates/subsidiaries provide a range of healthcare services including acute and tertiary inpatient care, ambulatory care, wellness and prevention programs.
Affiliates/Subsidiaries
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital is one of the country’s premier academic medical centers and a major referral center for the Midwest and beyond. With the opening of the new Prentice Women’s Hospital in October of 2007, Northwestern Memorial provides a total of 897 beds in the Feinberg Pavilion, the Prentice Women's Hospital and the Stone Institute of Psychiatry. It is the primary teaching hospital for Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and virtually every medical specialty is represented by the medical staff of 1,545 physicians who also carry appointments with the Feinberg School. In fiscal year 2007, consumers in the eight-county Chicago region ranked Northwestern Memorial as their “most preferred” hospital in market research for the 13th consecutive year. For the third consecutive year, the hospital also was the sole winner of the “Consumer Choice” award in that survey for having the best doctors, best nurses, best overall quality and best image and reputation. Consistently, a range of Northwestern Memorial’s medical specialties rank among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report magazine. The hospital earned a place on Working Mother magazine’s list of “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” and Hospitals & Health Networks magazine’s list of America’s “100 Most Wired” hospitals and health systems for state-of-the-art technology supporting patient care. Northwestern Memorial also has earned Magnet recognition, the gold standard for nursing excellence, and was named to The Leapfrog Group’s first “Top Hospitals” list for quality and safety of care practices. The hospital is the corporate parent of Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, Northwestern Memorial Insurance Company and Northwestern HealthCare Corporation.
Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group
Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group (NMPG) is a primary care medical group practice with 95 physicians
and allied healthcare providers covering the specialties of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology,
pediatrics, dermatology, occupational medicine, integrative medicine, wellness and disease prevention, executive health and perioperative care. Patient care and service is provided in 14 medical offices located in the Chicago
neighborhoods of Streeterville, Bucktown, Lincoln Park, the Loop and River North and in north suburban
Northbrook. There were 321,109 patient visits provided during fiscal year 2007.
Northwestern Memorial Foundation
Northwestern Memorial Foundation provides philanthropic support for Northwestern Memorial through fundraising and grantmaking. During fiscal year 2006, the foundation raised $18.6 million and made grants of $47.8 million to hospital programs, the construction of the new Prentice Women's Hospital and its related women's health programs, community services, research and education. Grants 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 Medical Faculty Foundation
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation (NMFF) is an academic multi-specialty physician organization. With more than 500 physicians and over 1000 health professionals in more than 40 specialties, NMFF is able to provide state-of-the-art care for a wide variety of medical and surgical conditions and diseases. NMFF physicians are full-time faculty members of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University.
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