Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital | |
Vanguard Health Systems, University of Chicago Medical Center | |
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Geography | |
Location | Chicago,, Illinois, USA |
Organisation | |
Hospital type | Teaching, for-profit |
Affiliated university | University of Chicago |
Services | |
Beds | 369 |
History | |
Founded | 1952 (opened in 1953) |
Links | |
Website | http://www.weisshospital.org/ |
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Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, affiliated with University of Chicago Medical Center, is an urban hospital located in Uptown, Chicago, Illinois. This is a 369-bed hospital, located on the site where there used to be Clarendon Beach, a famous beach of the city. Weiss Memorial Hospital is a joint venture of Vanguard Health Systems (80%) and the University of Chicago Medical Center (20%).
The hospital hosts a residency program on Internal Medicine with approximately 50 medical residents, including categorical, transitional and preliminary residents. The current Program Director is Shehzad Ali, M.D.