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The McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University links the University with five major teaching institutions in a comprehensive network. The member institutions include Children's Memorial Hospital, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. McGaw is Northwestern University's academic medical center; each member institution is committed to teaching, research, and patient care.
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare has a well established tradition of medical student and resident teaching dating back to 1930 when Evanston Hospital began its formal affiliation with Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Core rotations for the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare residency program are at Evanston and Glenbrook Hospitals. These teaching hospitals offer the latest treatments, which have been evaluated for effectiveness in research studies lead by clinicians with faculty appointments at Northwestern University. Residents train in an attractive suburban setting with supportive mentors while enjoying quality learning experience.
A Tradition of Research
Research is at the core of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's success as an academic medical institution, providing both improvements in patient care and a stimulating environment for physicians. Since the 1920s with Dr. Louis W. Sauer's development of the whooping cough vaccine at Evanston Hospital a strong linkage has existed between research and patient care. That same spirit of innovation exists today as Evanston Northwestern Healthcare takes its place among the nation's premier independent research hospitals, attracting the best and brightest physician-scientists--many of whom have been awarded significant NIH grants. The collaboration between Northwestern University's basic scientists and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare physicians has created an ideal model for advancing medical research and bringing new therapies to patients who need them most.
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Glenbrook Hospital Emergency Room Staff during the Epic System Go-Live |
The Medical Informatics System
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare is now one of the most “wired” healthcare organizations in the United States, thanks to the system-wide implementation of an award-winning suite of medical informatics tools. The system integrates functions from across the organization, including: scheduling; registration; inpatient and ambulatory Electronic Medical Records; physician orders; pharmacy orders and billing. The system eliminates the need for the paper-based patient chart, handwritten drug prescriptions and much of the copying and rewriting of the same information that occurs with paper-based charting systems.
Many of the benefits are driven by the system’s Electronic Medical Record -- a secure, centralized body of information about each patient, portions of which are accessed and updated directly by care providers. The system drastically reduces re-work and irregularities in everything from coding to prescription orders. All interns, resident physicians and fellows receive extensive training on the medical informatics system at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare’s university-scale training facility in north suburban Deerfield.