Important facts about us

Winter 2011 Important Facts brochure »

Children's Memorial Hospital is the region's top provider of pediatric specialty care, and Illinois' only freestanding hospital exclusively for kids.

• In fiscal year 2011, we served more than 148,000 children.
• Licensed for 270 beds, our medical staff includes 1,100 pediatric specialists and offers 70 pediatric specialties.
• Families come from far and wide to us for treatment. We have cared for children from every state and more than 35 countries.
• Regionally we're ranked #1, based on volume, in all pediatric specialties, including:

• We are one of 10 children's hospital nationwide to be recognized as a “Top Hospital” for patient safety by The Leapfrog Group, a national consortium of healthcare payers that promotes “leaps” in patient safety.
• U.S News & World Report's 2011 edition of “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” calls out 10 of our clinical programs, with Urology ranking 6th nationally.
• The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America, named us as one of three of the nation’s top performers on key quality measures. Children’s hospitals were ranked in one area – children’s asthma.

• We were the nation's first children’s hospital to earn the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence. Learn more about what Magnet status means to our families, and our nurses.

• Family Services plays a key role in healing, and helping families navigate their healthcare experience with us. Learn more about our culture of family-centered care.
• Read more in the hospital's annual reports.

Compelling research

We are building a new hospital, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, that will open in 2012.

• Established in 1986, Children's Memorial Research Center is the research enterprise of Children's Memorial Hospital.
• The research center is one of 31 interdisciplinary research centers and institutes of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where principal investigators who are part of the research center are full-time faculty members.
• In fiscal year 2011, our research investigators were awarded more than $41 million in extramural funding.

• Also in 2011, the research center had 206 physician-scientists.

• More than 475  papers were published in peer-reviewed journals, and more than 540 proposals were submitted, including 78 proposals submitted for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

• The Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) received $5.8 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to partner with the Chicago Department of Public Health on obesity prevention.

Intense education

• We are the pediatric training center of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, providing residencies in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery. Our highly skilled faculty, comprehensive clinical services, and innovative research programs all contribute to an exceptional training environment, demonstrating our commitment to continued excellence in pediatric medicine.
• Each year, the Department of Pediatrics trains approximately 200 physicians. Almost half are pediatric residents, and the remainder are fellows in various pediatric sub-specialties including cardiology, hematology/oncology and neonatology. The department is ranked 15^th nationally, and the Feinberg School is ranked 18^th overall, in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report rankings of top research-oriented medical schools in the country.  
• As the pediatric surgery training center of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, our Department of Surgery provides formal resident education in each of its ten divisions. Our surgeons also train rotating residents from Rush University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Chicago. In addition, we provide subspecialty programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in Pediatric General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Congenital Cardiac Surgery, and Urology through the Feinberg School of Medicine.

Advocacy and Community

Giving is crucial to our mission. Learn more about the campaign for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

• Children’s Memorial and affiliated organizations provided $100 million in direct community benefits in 2010. Learn more about our our commitment to community.

• We focus on prevention and health promotion -- policies and programs to keep children healthy, reduce the need for hospitalization, support social development. Current initiatives focus on injury prevention; chronic illness; HIV/AIDS; school health, and; advocacy training.

• We care for children from every legislative district in Illinois, and have a long history of partnering with government and community leaders to improve the health and well-being of children.

Sources: Internal data, IHA's COMPdata

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Content last reviewed: May 2011