Partnerships

	Erie Family Health Center delivers culturally sensitive health care to over 30,000 low-income, underinsured, and uninsured Chicagoans. Our community-based health care centers are portals to high-quality care – and a higher quality of life – regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. Since 1957, when the Erie Family Health Center was first established as a volunteer clinic by doctors from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, it has been Erie’s mission to ensure that all Chicagoans have access to high quality, culturally sensitive, bilingual health care services. Today, Erie serves about 30,000 patients annually at ten sites, including four school-based health centers, a teen health center and two oral health centers.
	Located on Chicago’s Northwest Side, Norwegian American Hospital is a 200-bed acute care hospital with over 800 professionals who adhere to the highest level of service and the utmost standard of cultural and religious sensitivities. Norwegian American Hospital is one of the most diverse hospitals in the City of Chicago, serving the communities of Bucktown, Humboldt Park, West Town, Wicker Park, Logan Square, and Austin.
	Established twelve years ago, the Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine is committed to training family physicians who are equipped to provide high quality care to patients in Chicago-area communities and beyond. Led with distinction, Dr. Michael Fleming and his team are endeavoring to promote the delivery of patient-centered, culturally appropriate care through innovative educational programs, research initiatives, public service, and outreach programs.
	As an academic medical center where the patient comes first, Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve by delivering a broad range of services with sensitivity to the individual needs of our patients and their families. We are an organization of caregivers who work together to achieve our mission by consistently meeting the highest standards of quality, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction. Bonded in an essential academic and service relationship with the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, NMH strives continuously to enhance the quality of our services by integrating them with education and research in an environment that encourages excellence of practice, critical inquiry and learning.
	On Saturday, June 9, 2012, Children’s Memorial’s main hospital moved to 225 E Chicago Avenue, and became Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. This new 23-story, state-of-the-art hospital helps further the Hospital’s mission to provide superior care to the region’s most critically ill and injured children. The 228 single patient rooms were developed from a clinical and family perspective; with the layout of each room offering patients and families more space and privacy, including more room for family members to sleep at the bedside. As one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report, Lurie Children’s is the pediatric training ground for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and one of only a handful of U.S. children’s hospitals with a dedicated pediatric research center.