John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Johnny C. Brown, Chief Operating Officer
Departmental Directory
Cook County Hospital is a public urban teaching hospital with a
staff of 300 attending physicians and a house staff of more than 400 residents
and fellows. Major services provided at Cook County Hospital include:
Inpatient Tertiary Care:
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Burn
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Neonatology
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Trauma
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Coronary Care
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Medical/Surgical Intensive Care
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Neurosurgical Intensive Care
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Pediatric Intensive Care
Inpatient Secondary Care:
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Medicine/Surgery
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Pediatrics
Ambulatory Services:
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Adult and Pediatric Emergency Services,
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Fantus Health Center
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Ambulatory Screening Clinic
Cook County Hospital is the centerpiece of the integrated health care delivery
system of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services. A tertiary, acute
care hospital on the West side of Chicago, the Hospital is administered
by the Bureau and governed by the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
For more than a century, Cook County Hospital has provided public hospital
services to those in medical need, regardless of their ability to pay.
For decades the largest inpatient facility in the area, Cook County Hospital
has pioneered in shifting care delivery from inpatient to ambulatory settings.
No other provider of hospital-based ambulatory care in the region furnishes
the volume of services delivered by Cook County Hospital. Emergency room
visits, about 160,000 per year, outnumber the next three largest providers
combined. Outpatient clinic visits to the Fantus Health Center's more than
90 primary and specialty care clinics totaled nearly one-half million last
year.
In addition to providing medical care, the medical staff of CCH has
been a major teacher of new physicians for the last 50 years. Four hundred
fifty Residents and Fellows are trained by the medical staff in 20 different
specialty and subspecialty areas. Academic excellence is a priority, and
a recent affiliation agreement has joined the academic programs of the
Rush Medical College and Cook County Hospital.
The Hospital is known for its expertise in several specialty areas:
Emergency/Trauma Care
The Trauma Unit, established in 1966, is the prototype of its kind in the
United States. Of the more than 4,500 patients admitted to the resuscitation
area each year, 98% survive. The Hospital is designated as both a Level
I Adult Trauma Center and a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center. The Department
of Emergency Medicine is the second largest in the nation with more than
100,000 adult visits annually. A new Adult Emergency Center area opened
in the Fall of 1991, making the department among the newest and best staffed
emergency room of any county facility in the nation.
Burns
The 24 bed Burn Center is the largest in the Midwest and the only completely
self- contained center in the city of Chicago. The unit maintains its own
operating room, recovery room, intensive care unit, physical and occupational
therapy services, hydrotherapy room and ward on the same floor. Approximately
275 patients are admitted to the Burn Center each year one third of the
admissions are children.
Neonatal Care & High Risk Followup
The Pediatric Department has one of the largest Neonatal Intensive Care
Units (NICU) in the country. Cook County Hospital has been designated by
the State of Illinois as a Level I Perinatal Center. It is a receiving
center for both high-risk mothers and sick infants born at several other
hospitals throughout the city. A comprehensive set of follow-up services
provides ongoing evaluation, care, support and referrals services for high-risk
infants and children after discharge from the hospital.
Ambulatory Care
Fantus Health Center, the Hospital's outpatient clinic, houses approximately
one hundred specialty and sub specialty clinics for ambulatory care and
provides more than a half-million patient visits every year.
HIV/AIDS Services
A comprehensive set of medical, counseling, outreach and education services
is available to patients with HIV/AIDS, their families, and to persons
at risk for HIV infection. The Women & Children's program is the largest
of its kind in the State. The CORE Center, a state-of-the-art outpatient
facility to treat HIV and other communicable diseases, jointly sponsored
by Rush-Presbyterian-St.Luke's Medical Center, opened in October, 1998.
New Hospital Construction
Cook County Hospital's campus is a part of the West Side Medical Center,
a 305 acre tract containing one of the largest concentrations of medical
facilities in the world. A modern 464 bed Cook County Hospital is being
built on the existing campus to replace the facility now in use. The new
hospital is expected to open in 2002.
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