Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Advocate Health Care
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Geography
Location	Park Ridge, Illinois, United States
Coordinates	42°02′20″N 87°50′50″W / 42.038795°N 87.847312°W / 42.038795; -87.847312Coordinates: 42°02′20″N 87°50′50″W / 42.038795°N 87.847312°W / 42.038795; -87.847312
Organization
Funding	Non-profit
Hospital type	Teaching, Research, Children's & Referral
Affiliated university	Midwestern University Rosalind Franklin University University of Illinois[1]
Services
Emergency department	Level I trauma center[2]
Beds	645
History
Founded	1897[3]
Links
Website	www.advocatehealth.com/luth/
Lists	Hospitals in Illinois

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (ALGH) is a 645-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois. Founded in 1897, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital is the sixth largest hospital in the Chicago area, and it operates a Level I trauma center. It also is home to Advocate Children's Hospital - Park Ridge, the only children's hospital in the greater north and northwest suburban region of Chicago.

In the last year with available data, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital had 29,025 admissions, 62,544 emergency room visits, and its surgeons performed 6,728 inpatient and 12,431 outpatient surgeries.^[4] The hospital is gold certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).^[5][6] The inpatient rehabilitation program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). The echocardiogram lab is accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission.^[7]

ALGH operates a number of residency programs, which train newly graduated physicians in various specialties and sub-specialties. The hospital is associated with the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern University.

History

The hospital originally opened in 1897 as Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Hospital,^[3] with 25 beds.^[8] The hospital was opened in Park Ridge at its current location in 1949 by Lutheran General HealthSystem.^[3] In 1995, the hospital's parent organization merged with Evangelical Health Systems Corporation to create Advocate Health Care.^[3] In 2005, ALGH was recognized as a magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.^[9]

In 2011, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital began offering cyberknife surgeries with its Illinois CyberKnife. The facility uses CyberKnife technology to treat malignant and benign tumors non-surgically.^[10][11] Illinois CyberKnife established The Brain and Spine Tumor Clinic with Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. Also in 2011, the hospital started a donor breast milk program, using breast milk from the Indiana Mother's Milk Bank.^[12] It was the first breast bank in the Chicago area.^[12]

In 2012, the hospital was recognized by Chicago Magazine as a top Chicago area hospital,^[13] and was ranked 7th in Illinois by US News & World Report.^[4] A new emergency department, operating suites and loading dock are being built, as a part of a $40 million expansion project expected to be completed in spring 2015.^[14][15]

Services

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital operates a bone marrow transplant program.^[16]

Lutheran General Hospital was the first hospital in the Midwest to offer 3-D mammography.^[17]

Campus

The hospital is certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) to the gold standard.^[5][6]

Advocate Health Care

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital is part of Oak Brook-based Advocate Health Care, which is the largest health care provider in Illinois. With more than 25,000 employees and 4,600 affiliated physicians, Advocate Health Care operates 10 acute care hospitals, including two children's hospitals and a specialty hospital for extended care needs, three large medical groups, and comprehensive home health and hospice services. Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based organization related to both the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ.^[18]

Graduate medical education

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital operates a number of residency training and fellowship programs for newly graduated physicians. The residencies train physicians specializing in orthopedic surgery, internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. All programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).^[19] The internal medicine residency is additionally accredited by the American Osteopathic Association,^[20] in partnership with Midwestern University.^[21] Each year, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital trains 914 medical students, 176 residents, and 37 fellows.^[22]

The hospital also provides graduate training for pharmacists, through a program accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.^[23][24]

See also

• Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
• Advocate Sherman Hospital

References

Further reading

• "8-story, 192-bed addition approved for hospital". Chicago Tribune News. November 2, 2005. 
• Petersen, Eric (2013-12-27). "Lutheran General finds, stops bacteria source". Daily Herald. 
• "Getting Ahead by Growing Your Own: A case study, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital". Pioneer Employer Initiative. Washington State Hospital Association. 
• Wronski, Richard (October 17, 2003). "Hospitals expand to compete". Chicago Tribune News. 

External links

• Advocate Lutheran General Hospital official page
• Advocate Children's Hospital