In FY 99 North Chicago treated 15,505 patients and had over 186,670 outpatient visits.
Program provides primary health care to veterans, in their home.
Also, the medical center expanded services at the Vet Center in February 1997, and now provides primary care services to veterans. North Chicago also has a Primary Care Access Point in Gurnee, Illinois. The Research programs at North Chicago and Hines facilities were consolidated during FY 97. The primary objective of the amalgamation is to augment patient care by increasing the quantity and quality of research while reducing administrative cost. Biomedical and clinical research is ongoing in such arm as molecular biology, cardiology, oncology, alcoholism, immunology, diabetes, substance abuse, spinal cord injuries, speech pathology, aging, pulmonary, health care outcomes, infectious diseases, vision, psychiatric illness, rehabilitation medicine and behavioral sciences.