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Clinical Highlights

  • One of only two Comprehensive Cancer Centers in Illinois, as designated by the National Cancer Institute.
  • Recognized by the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI®), an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, for meeting the highest standards for quality and care delivery to cancer patients.
  • Internationally recognized in treating valve and structural heart conditions, including robotic approaches only offered by a handful of hospitals. Recently performed its 500th robotic cardiac surgery.
  • One of the world’s top programs for treating Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. IBD Center provides comprehensive care for patients including diagnosis, personalized treatment plans, diet and nutrition education, and access to clinical trials.
  • First hospital in the U.S. to perform successful segmented, split liver and living donor transplants.
  • First hospital in Illinois to use new technology to prepare donor lungs for transplant and help increase the number of deceased donor livers available for transplantation.
  • First to use genetic techniques to determine the chromosomal location of a gene that could cause diabetes, allowing researchers to successfully predict when children would develop diabetes.
  • First medical center in Illinois to be accredited for all adult and pediatric cellular therapy services, as defined by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT). Services include adult and pediatric autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplant therapy; bone marrow and apheresis collection; and processing services for the purposes of preparing cellular therapy products.
  • First hospital in the world to perform a successful heart-kidney-liver transplant.
  • First hospital in Chicago to be designated a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the Joint Commission.
  • One of the largest diagnostic and interventional endoscopy programs in the region, offering leading-edge treatments available at only a select group of hospitals worldwide.
  • First Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center in Illinois to be recognized by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association’s accreditation program.
  • In fall 2017, received its 12th consecutive “A” in patient safety from the Leapfrog Group, making it one of only 63 hospitals nationwide to do so.

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