Hyde Park residents are grateful to the University of Chicago Hospitals for some of the most comprehensive medical care in the Midwest. The University of Chicago Hospitals sponsor the largest medical research institute in Illinois and add 1,031 licensed patient beds to this community of 40,000.

Within these halls (26 buildings, with more than 12 miles of corridors and 67 acres of space for research, teaching, and patient care, to be exact), medical professionals perform miracles daily and they routinely add the latest and greatest in technology, equipment and staff to ensure the quality remains enviable. U.S. News & World Report certainly noticed, and ranked this one of the best hospitals in the United States.

Through the years, surgeons at the University of Chicago Hospitals performed the nation’s first liver transplant from a living donor. Here Dr. Janet Rowley discovered the links that demonstrate cancer is a genetic disease, an important finding that earned her the Lasker Award and National Medal of Science in 1998. Dr. Graeme Bell, a researcher in the U of C’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was part of the team that first cloned the insulin gene. The University of Chicago Hospitals opened one of the nation’s first premature infant nurseries and pioneered the study of toxemia in pregnancy.

The first bone marrow transplant was performed at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s, and by 1993, the U of C performed the first liver transplant from an unrelated living donor. Even sleep research was "invented" in this hospital system.

All in the Family
Healthcare facilities in the Hyde Park Area:

• Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital, the primary adult patient care facility

• University of Chicago Children’s Hospital, devoted to the medical needs of children

• Chicago Lying-in Hospital, a maternity and women’s hospital

• Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine, a state-of-the-art outpatient care facility

• The University of Chicago Physicians Group, a network of more than 600 University of Chicago physicians

• CareMed Chicago, a home healthcare organization

• COMING: University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, a $130-million facility scheduled to open in 2004

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