A 247-bed pediatric tertiary care facility that is rated among the top ten in the nation, Children s Memorial Hospital is the major pediatric training facility for Northwestern University Medical School . As a major teaching and treatment center, it attracts patients from all socioeconomic classes in Chicago, its suburbs, and surrounding states.
Psychiatry is one of the larger departments in the hospital.
Our mission includes providing national leadership in the education of health care professionals and advancing knowledge through research. Children of all ages and from every socioeconomic background are treated for a wide variety of problems including adjustment disorders, psychophysiologic disorders, psychoses, affective disorders, developmental delays, externalizing disorders, and learning disabilities. The department is staffed by a multi-disciplinary group of fifty professionals with representatives from milieu therapy, recreational therapy , nursing, psychiatry , psychology , social work , clinical education and speech pathology . The partial hospitalization program has a strong family emphasis. It also includes all emergency room consultations as well as medical and surgical services at Children's Memorial.