UIC Department of Surgery

Four major hospitals are integrated into the General Surgery teaching program: University of Illinois Medical Center, Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Christ Hospital, and Veterans Administration Chicago Health Care Center. These hospitals have a combined total of over 1,500 beds. More information can be found about each specific hospital by selecting the appropriate link.

University of Illinois at Chicgo Medical Center

The largest state-owned medical center in Illinois.
Is part of the largest medical school in the country.
Chicago area’s largest group of physicians at one location.
Provides primary and multi-specialty care for children and adults, treating a broad range of medical conditions.
Employs more than 4,000 full and part-time staff.
Accepts more than 30 health insurance plans.
Annual Discharges = 17,936
Annual Outpatient Visits = 422,096
Annual ER Visits = 53,250
Annual Operating Revenue = $532,464,299

Jesse Brown VA Hospital

The Jesse Brown VA Medical Center consists of a 188-bed acute care facilitiy and four community based outpatient clinics. Jesse Brown VAMC provides care to approximately 62,000 veterans who reside in the City of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois and in six counties in northwestern Indiana. In FY04, the medical center had approximately 7,600 inpatient admissions and 531,000 outpatient visits. A budget of over $235 million supports approximately 1,800 staff, including 180 physicians and 590 nurses.

Advocate Christ Hospital

Advocate Christ Medical Center is a 665-bed, not-for-profit teaching, research and referral medical center in Oak Lawn. It has a medical staff of more than 900 physicians, representing more than 60 specialties and subspecialties. Nearly 4,000 babies are born at the medical center each year. As a state-designated Level III perinatal center, the highest designation, Christ Medical Center provides critically ill infants the assistance they need to begin and sustain life.Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital opened its doors in November 1996. The facility has 45 private inpatient rooms, a 15-bed pediatric intensive care unit and a nine-bed pediatric surgical heart unit. Hope Children’s Hospital cares for more than 4,800 inpatients and registers more than 90,000 visits outpatients annually.