Metropolitan region is nationally and internationally known for its major medical centers and their excellent programs and services. Some of the nation's leading academic centers are in this region and, in addition to superior patient care and cutting edge patient research, they produce thousands of talented, well trained physicians and other health professionals each year. Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. has invited a number of major medical centers in the region to sponsor the profiles and information that follows. Nearly 100 full-time pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists are part of the hospital and teach at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Pediatricians also can see patients at our primary care centers in several suburban locations.
In a separate building on the Cook County Hospital campus we meet the emergency, inpatient, and critical care needs of acutely and chronically ill patients. As a part of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services we provide primary health care to children from all walks of life and ethnic backgrounds. The Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital of Loyola is a regionally recognized comprehensive pediatric care system. It is the preferred system of consumers, a brand name that providers want to be affiliated with and the only system of care that children will ever need. The University of Chicago Children's Hospital has provided comprehensive, innovative medical care to children of all social and economic backgrounds.