The Hospital and Medical Center

The University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private, nondenominational, coeducational institution of higher learning and research, founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1891. William Rainey Harper was its first president. Classes began on October 1, 1892, with and enrollment of 594 students and a faculty of 103, including eight former college presidents.

The University has a full time faculty of 1,125 and an enrollment of more than 8,800 on the main campus and 1,250 in downtown Chicago in courses offered by the Graduate School of Business. The University is a major economic anchor for the city of Chicago and, with the hospitals, provides the equivalent of 11, 800 full time jobs.

The University of Chicago has had a major impact on the American higher education, inventing the four quarter system, developing extension courses and programs in the liberal arts for adults, establishing a coherent program of general education for undergraduates, and initiating a full time medical school teaching faculty. Sixty-five Nobel Prize winners have hailed from the University of Chicago. The University is one of the nation's most celebrated teacher of teachers, and curricula throughout the country reflect its emphasis on broad humanistic and scientific undergraduate education.

The Medical Center

The University of Chicago Hospitals were founded in 1927. Today the Medical Center compromises the clinical departments of the Division of the Biological Sciences, the Pritzker School of Medicine, and the University of Chicago Hospitals. The Medical Center occupies 18 interconnected buildings, including the Bernard Mitchell Hospital, Wyler Children's Hospital, Chicago Lying-In Hospital, the Center for Advanced Medicine, as well as Billings Hospital, which houses the psychiatric inpatient and outpatient departments. The Medical Center provides care through more than 37,250 inpatient admissions, 411,000 outpatient visits, and 81,000 emergency room visits at the Hospitals each year. The 640 bed Medical Center has more than 560 full time attending physicians and more than 500 residents and clinical fellows. The University of Chicago Hospitals has established teaching relationships and affiliations Mac Neal Hospital in Berwyn, Illinois, Tinley Park Mental Health Center in Tinley Park, Illinois, and Chicago Lakeshore Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

Additional website links about the hospital, medical center, and the Pritzker School of Medicine.

http://www.uchicago.edu/

http://pritzker.bsd.uchicago.edu/