Loyola University Medical Center

Loyola Medicine' is a quaternary-care system with a 61-acre (25 ha) main medical center campus in the western suburbs of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The medical center campus is located in Maywood, 13 miles (21 km) west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles (13 km) east of Oak Brook, Illinois. The heart of the medical center campus is Loyola University Hospital. Also on campus are the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center (now named for the late Cardinal Joseph Louis Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, who was a patient at the Cancer Center when he died in November of 1996 from metastatic pancreatic cancer) Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the Stritch School of Medicine (named for Samuel Cardinal Stritch, a former Archbishop of Chicago) Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park, Illinois includes the 264-licensed-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Health and Fitness Center and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center. Loyola University Health System has been a member of Trinity Health since July of 2011. The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy is a part of the Stritch School of Medicine.^[1]

Loyola Medicine has made news for delivering two of the smallest babies to ever survive. The record for the smallest premature baby to survive was broken in September 2004 by Rumaisa Rahman, who was born at Loyola at 25 weeks' gestation. At birth, she was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8.6 ounces (240 g). The previous record, also achieved by Loyola, was held for some time by Madeline Mann, who was born at 26 weeks weighing 9.9 ounces (280 g) and measuring 9.5 inches (24 cm).

References

External links

• Official website
• Gottlieb Memorial Hospital (Melrose Park)
• Gottlieb Center for Fitness

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