Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Ill.). Founded in 1969, Loyola University Medical Center is a teaching hospital 13 miles west of downtown Chicago that is anchored by the Catholic Jesuit promise to not only treat illnesses, but the whole person — "mind, body and spirit."
Affiliated with Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, Loyola University Medical Center contains 801 beds between its various facilities, which include the Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital, a burn center, Level 1 trauma center, a center for heart and vascular medicine and the Cardinal Bernadin Cancer Center, named for the late Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, Joseph Louis Bernardin, who was a patient at the cancer center when he died in 1996 from metastatic pancreatic cancer. The medical campus is anchored by the 559-bed Loyola Hospital.
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Loyola University Medical Center as the No. 3 hospital in Illinois and one of the top 20 hospitals in the United States for cardiology and heart surgery. The hospital is Magnet-designated for nursing excellence and also received Healthgrades' 2014 Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award. In 2014, Loyola University Medical Center became the first hospital in Illinois to use a new MRI-ultrasound imaging system that can result in fewer biopsies and better treatment decisions for prostate cancer patients. It was also the first hospital in the state to offer a newly approved artificial aortic heart valve that does not require open-heart surgery.
Loyola University Medical Center is evidently distinguished for clinical care, but also works for broader gains for patients and providers. Three years ago, the academic medical center launched a health services research program to study how providers can better care for patients at lower costs.
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