Northwestern Medicine is an academic health system in the Chicago area, operating 11 hospitals and 200+ care locations across clinical care, medical research and education.
Northwestern Medicine is an academic health system serving the Chicago area. It brings together Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, uniting physicians, researchers and care teams across patient care, medical research and medical education. The system operates 11 hospitals and more than 200 care locations throughout Chicagoland, drawing on over 160 years of operation.
Its clinical work spans primary care, outpatient delivery, complex condition treatment at nationally ranked hospitals, and transplant medicine. The lung transplant and lung repair programme has made Northwestern Medicine the nation's leader in lung transplants, built on pioneering repair techniques. A translational research focus - moving discoveries from the laboratory to the bedside - is central to how the system combines academic medicine with clinical practice.
Recent expansion has concentrated on outpatient and primary care centres designed to bring services into neighbourhoods across the region. The organisation describes its mission as putting patients first and making people better by making medicine better; it provides $67.5 million in annual charity care to the communities it serves. All activity is concentrated in Chicago and the wider Chicagoland area of Illinois.
