Loyola University Medical Center
Loyola University Medical Center is a tertiary care institution with over 500 beds, including a high risk obstetrical center, a trauma unit, a burn center, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center and active cardiac, pulmonary, renal and liver transplant programs. We are home to the Loyola Medicine Children's Hospital with state-of-the-art pediatric and neonatal intensive care units. All clinical specialties are represented with a broad mix of referral problems as well as primary care patients from Maywood and adjacent communities.
The newest addition to the hospital is the Loyola University Hospital Tower, a state-of-the-art medical facility that features 12 new operating rooms, 64 private patient rooms and a new design that puts the patient's experience and recovery at the forefront of care. We provide over 24,000 anesthetics per year at Loyola University Medical Center.
Specialized facilities include:
- A state-designated Level I trauma center serving western Cook and DuPage counties
- A 21-bed burn center servicing a four-state region
- One of four cranial base surgery centers in the nation
- The Loyola Medicine Children's Hospital, a hospital within Loyola University Medical Center
- A unique intensive care unit solely for heart transplantation patients and a coronary care unit, with mortality rates for heart by-pass surgeries among the lowest in the nation.
- A bone marrow transplantation unit
- An aeromedical service that features a "flying emergency room" helicopter that is available 24-hours each day, within a 200-mile radius of the medical center
"Loyola prepared me well. Definitely able to move quickly and work with people."
Matt Wade, MD
In private practice in Arizona, Class of 2019
Approximately 19,000 surgical patients per year come through our operating rooms. Because of their acuity, many are cared for in our intensive care units or intermediate care units before returning to a surgical floor. Ancillary services include: complete clinical laboratories, CT and nuclear medicine facilities, special invasive therapy units, and social welfare/chaplain services. The free-standing Loyola Outpatient Center has eight operating rooms where anesthesia services are provided for outpatient surgery. The main hospital and adjacent former medical school building were opened in 1969 and often function above 95% occupancy. Varied experience can be obtained from this tertiary care hospital, from the high turn over ambulatory setting, and from our other remote locations where we provide anesthesia services.
Community Facilities
Together with the Madden Mental Health Center and the Hines VA Hospital, the component medical center occupies a square mile of land along side the Miller Meadow Section of the Des Plaines River Forest Preserve, between the Eisenhower and Stevenson expressways.
Nearby in the western suburbs of Chicago are pleasant residential communities with available and affordable housing, good schools and a variety of shopping and leisure activities including Brookfield Zoo, Morton Arboretum, Allstate Arena and the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic area.
The Lake Michigan beaches are just 10 miles to the east and Chicago, the third largest city in the US, is even closer. Chicago has a world famous Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Art Institute of Chicago, Field Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Museum of Contemporary Art, many large parks (Grant Park and Millenium Park) and more. All sports fans know that Chicago is the hometown for the Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago Fire FC.
The greater Chicago medical community includes six medical schools as well as many other institutions with biomedical and scientific departments. There are remarkable cooperation and interchange between these institutions. The anesthesia community, in particular, profits from the fruits of this greater collegiality, sponsoring and actively attending the Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists bi-monthly study commission, the Chicago Society of Anesthesiologists bi-monthly lectures with dinner, and the Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference (MARC). Loyola residents, staff and alumni are active participants in this community of excellence.
Stritch School of Medicine
"I walk into work without fear knowing anything I may encounter I have already witnessed. That confidence is invaluable every day I put on scrubs. Many of my mentors have turned into friends. Loyola is just a special place to train and see it all."
Jared Hooks, MD
Private Practice in Indiana, Class of 2018
The department has a balance of youth and experience. Senior level mid-career faculty are present in each subspecialty area. It is making its traditions and history daily. Members are diverse in background and capabilities, but unified in their goal to provide excellent anesthesiology training. Our clinical responsibilities are growing in challenge as well as numbers. Our research is provocative and a natural outgrowth of inquisitive minds engaged in the active practice of anesthesiology; it is supported by a modern and expanding medical center which aids in formulating and answering both basic and clinical questions.
The joint goals of this department are patient care and resident education with research as an active complement. The best patient care is never inconsistent with the university’s mission of creating new knowledge (research function), integrating it into the body of existing knowledge (repository function) and passing it onto new generations of scholars (teaching function). To these ends, the department has gathered a dedicated group of enthusiastic academic anesthesiologists.
Our members regularly contribute work to refereed journals in science, clinical anesthesiology, surgery and critical care. They are invited as visiting professors nationwide and contribute to recognized multi-authored textbooks.
They are also active lecturers with invitations to speak both locally and nationally and several function as examiners for the American Board of Anesthesiology. The staff is dedicated to providing the best experience possible for the residents. Patient care, teaching and research are areas where we strive for excellence. We look forward to sharing our experiences with you.
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine admits students without regard to their race, color, sex, or national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, other activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. Loyola University Chicago does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, or national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school administered programs. Qualified persons are not subject to discrimination on the basis of disability.
