Company Profile
Rush University Medical Center
Company Overview
Rush University Medical Center is an academic medical center that encompasses a 613-bed hospital serving adults and children, the 61-bed Johnston R. Bowman Health Center and Rush University. Rush University is home to one of the first medical colleges in the Midwest and one of the nation’s top-ranked nursing colleges, as well as graduate programs in allied health, health systems management and biomedical research. The Medical Center also offers more than 70 highly selective residency and fellowship programs in medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties.
For nearly 170 years, Rush has been leading the way in developing innovative and often life-saving treatments. But physicians and scientists at Rush are not only committed to the science of medicine. They are also committed to the art of medicine. This unique combination of research and patient care has earned Rush national rankings in 11 specialty areas, as reported in U.S.News & World Report’s 2006 “America’s Best Hospitals” issue.
Today, Rush is a thriving center for basic and clinical research, with physicians and scientists involved in hundreds of research projects developing and testing the effectiveness and safety of new therapies and medical devices. Some of the most exciting projects at Rush are under way in the Robert H. Cohn and Terri Cohn Research Building, a state-of-the-art facility where investigators are conducting research to identify the causes of a wide range of diseases.
Rush is proud to be the preferred hospital and home to the team physicians for both the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls.
Company History
With a history spanning nearly 170 years, Rush has been part of the Chicago landscape longer than any other health care institution in the city. In fact, Rush Medical College received its charter on March 2, 1837, two days before the city of Chicago was incorporated. Its founder, Dr. Daniel Brainard, named the school in honor of Dr. Benjamin Rush, the only physician with medical school training to sign the Declaration of Independence. Rush Medical College was the first institution of higher learning chartered in Illinois and one of the first medical schools to open west of the Alleghenies.
The early Rush faculty, well known across the American frontier for its expertise, engaged in patient care, research and teaching, and was associated with a number of scientific developments and new clinical procedures. As the city grew, so did Rush’s involvement with other developing institutions: St. Luke’s Hospital, established in 1864; Presbyterian Hospital, which was begun at the urging of the Rush faculty in 1883; and the University of Chicago, with which Rush Medical College was affiliated and later united from 1898 to 1942.
In the early 1940s, Rush discontinued undergraduate education, but its library was maintained and its faculty continued to teach at the University of Illinois School of Medicine. In 1969, Rush Medical College reactivated its charter and merged with Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital, which itself had been formed through merger in 1956, to form Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center. Rush University, which now includes colleges of medicine, nursing, health sciences and research training, was established in 1972.
The Medical Center officially changed its name in September 2003 to Rush University Medical Center, to reflect the important role education and research play in its patient care mission.
Notable Clients
Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Rush was named a "top-Performing Hospital" by University HealthSystems Consortium (UHC) an alliance of 92 academic medical centers, which placed Rush in the top one percent of UHC member institutions based on our quality and safety data. And in the July 2005 U.S.News & World Report, Rush was ranked higher than any other Illinois hospital in four specialty areas and among the best hospitals in America in 11 specialties. Rush has also been awarded Magnet designation two consecutive times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in recognition of the excellence of its nursing services. In many areas of medicine, Rush offers treatments available nowhere else. It is this caliber of medicine that draws people to Rush from throughout the Midwest and around the world.
Benefits
Child Care: the Medical Center has a fully licensed on-campus day care center.
Flexible Spending Accounts: allows pre-tax contributions for reimbursement of eligible Health Care, Dependent Care, Mass Transit and Parking expenses.