Company Profile
Loyola Medicine
Company Overview
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine is a regional, academic health system based in Chicago’s western suburbs and a member of Trinity Health, one of nation’s largest Catholic health systems. Our system includes Loyola University Medical Center, a nationally ranked academic medical center with 547 licensed beds in Maywood; Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, a 254-bed community hospital in Melrose Park; MacNeal Hospital, a 374-bed community hospital in Berwyn; Loyola Medical Group, a team of primary care and specialty care physicians at over 15 Chicago-area locations; and a large ambulatory network of clinics throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties offering primary and specialty care. Loyola trains the next generation of caregivers through teaching programs for more than 520 residents and 2,400 students, allied health professionals, paramedics and chaplains each year.
Company History
Loyola University Medical Center
The Loyola University Medical Center campus is also home to renowned centers of excellence, including:
Illinois’ largest Burn Center
Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center
Level I Trauma Center
William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine
Academic Medicine
Loyola’s doctors teach at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, which is a national role model in reinventing medical education to prepare students for today's healthcare environment. Stritch is one of only four Catholic-affiliated medical schools in the nation. Loyola has more than 1,000 physician faculty members, 650 residents and fellows and 600 medical students.
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital is home to a Level II Trauma Center, Loyola Medicine’s Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center, an Adult Day Center and the Gottlieb Center for Fitness.
MacNeal Hospital
MacNeal Hospital is a 374-bed teaching hospital with over 550 medical staff members in 50 specialties, advanced inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical and psychiatric services, advanced diagnostics and treatments in a convenient community setting at eight locations.
Regional Outpatient Centers
Loyola Medicine also offers services at many locations throughout the Chicago area. Many sites offer a comprehensive range of services in one convenient location, such as Burr Ridge, Homer Glen, Oakbrook Terrace, Orland Park and Park Ridge, while others offer the convenience of having your primary care doctor close to home or immediate care nearby when you need it.
Our nationally ranked expertise is as noted as our compassion. Our physicians, nurses, clinicians and entire team of caregivers fulfill our mission to treat the whole person – to “also treat the human spirit.”
Accreditation
Loyola Medicine hospitals are accredited with Full Standards Compliance from the Joint Commission and are re-evaluated every three years.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Loyola’s Proud Achievements
Loyola Medicine has been recognized for outstanding care and reached significant milestones in advancing medicine, which we are proud to share.
Loyola was a pioneer in establishing a thriving ambulatory care network of neighborhood centers, which has become a model for health systems nationwide.
Heart and Vascular Care
Loyola is the first and only center in Illinois to have an entire interventional cardiology staff on site 24/7 to perform emergency balloon angioplasties. The vast majority of procedures are done within 60 minutes of the patient’s arrival in the emergency department.
Loyola is the first hospital in Illinois to offer a new, noninvasive technology, called fractional flow reserve-computed tomography (FFR-CT), to test for coronary artery disease. The test was developed by HeartFlow Inc.
Loyola was the only center in Illinois that participated in a clinical trial of Medtronic’s CoreValve®, a heart valve that can be deployed with a catheter, eliminating the need for invasive open heart surgery.
Loyola is the only academic medical center in the Chicago area to have received the 2019 Platinum Performance Achievement award from the American College of Cardiology for providing excellent heart attack care to patients.
Neurosciences
In 2010, Loyola became one of the first centers in the Chicago area to offer transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a drug-free method of treating patients with severe depression.
Gastroenterology
Loyola was the first center in Chicago to offer a noninvasive alternative to colonoscopies called PillCam™ Colon 2, a capsule containing two miniature cameras on either end. After the patient ingests the capsule, it travels through the digestive tract, capturing images and wirelessly transmitting them to a recorder worn by the patient.
Cancer Care
The Loyola Center for Cancer Care and Research at Palos Health South Campus in Orland Park is the first center in Illinois – and only the fifth in the country – to offer a groundbreaking MRI-guided radiation therapy that targets tumors with millimeter precision. Called MRIdian® Linac, the FDA-cleared, state-of-the-art system delivers radiation precisely to the tumor, even if body functions such as breathing cause the tumor to move during the radiation treatment. The ultra-sharp beam of radiation minimizes damage to surrounding tissue.
Loyola is the first center in the country to enroll patients in a clinical trial of a minimally invasive treatment for patients with spinal metastases. The combination treatment delivers radiation directly to the tumor (intraoperative radiotherapy) and increases support of the spine (kyphoplasty).
Loyola was the first cancer center in the Chicago area to establish a facility to treat the “whole-person” needs of people with cancer. The Coleman Foundation Image Renewal Center offers therapeutic and salon services to meet the special needs of our cancer patients. Services include acupuncture, massage, biofeedback, exercise programs, art therapy and support groups.
Loyola is the first academic medical center in the Chicago area to offer a precise radiation treatment for prostate cancer called high dose rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy, in which the radiation dose is delivered in just minutes and removed immediately after the treatment.
Loyola is the first center in the Midwest to offer the first effective PET/CT scan for prostate cancer patients. The scan can detect the location and extent of cancer that has recurred after initial treatment and spread to other parts of the body. Prostate PET/CT scans can detect cancer earlier than either CT scans alone or MRI scans.
In 2018, Loyola became the first center in Illinois to offer cancer patients the Paxman Scalp Cooling System to reduce the risk of chemotherapy hair loss. Before, during and after chemotherapy sessions, the patient wears a silicone cap containing a circulating coolant that reduces the temperature of the scalp by a few degrees.
The Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center became the first freestanding facility in Illinois to combine cancer research, diagnosis, treatment and prevention under one roof.
Psychiatry
Loyola is one of the first centers in the Chicago area to offer transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a drug-free method of treating patients with severe depression.
Transplant Surgery
Loyola established the area’s first heart transplant program in 1984 and has performed more than 750 heart transplants since the program began, more than any other center in Illinois.
In 1988, Loyola was the first center in Illinois to perform a successful lung transplant and, in 1990, the first double-lung transplant. In 2009, Loyola became one of only five centers nationwide to transplant its 600th lung. Loyola set a state record in 2014, performing 51 lung transplant surgeries, the most by a single center in Illinois.
Loyola performed the first simultaneous double-lung and kidney transplant in Illinois.
Loyola is the only center in Illinois to perform five lung transplants in just over 24 hours.
Loyola performed the fastest lung transplant in Illinois; the patient went home with a new lung just 11 days after going on the waiting list.
In 2016, Loyola surgeons successfully transplanted 10 individual organs into six patients in 22 hours: two double lung transplants, a single-lung transplant, a heart transplant a liver/kidney transplant and an innovative en bloc kidney transplant (two kidneys from a 15-month-old donor).
In 2016, Loyola performed more lung transplants and heart transplants than any other center in Illinois.
In 2017, Loyola performed its first lung transplant using a technology called ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP). The groundbreaking technology evaluates lungs before transplant, potentially increasing the supply of donor lungs.
In 2017, Loyola performed its first pancreas transplant.
A Loyola patient was the final link in the world’s longest living-donor kidney transplant chain. It involved 30 donors, 30 recipients and 17 hospitals nationwide.
Women’s Health
Loyola’s Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Center became the first center of its kind in the Chicago area. Loyola offers a single location for the multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of women with pelvic floor disorders. The center has board-certified subspecialists in urogynecology, physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Loyola became the first center in Illinois to have multiple urogynecology team members fully trained in robotic-assisted surgery for treating female pelvic disorders.
Pediatrics and Neonatal Intensive Care
The majority of Loyola’s NICU caregivers have worked in the unit for more than two decades. Their patients have included the world’s smallest surviving baby, born at 9.17 ounces in 2004, and more than 3,000 newborns who have weighed less than 2 pounds.
The overall survival rate of infants in Loyola’s NICU is 98 percent. As a Level III Perinatal Center, Loyola’s unit offers the latest technology, therapies and techniques, in addition to serving as a national model for specialized protocols and practices in the care of premature infants.
Loyola nurses staff a first-of-its-kind, integrated home-care program for premature or sick infants. The unit also provides a follow-up clinic for high-risk NICU graduates, who receive developmental screening and referral care during the first three years of life.
The pediatric mobile health unit was the first of its kind in the Midwest. This 13-ton, 40-foot health facility has treated more than 100,000 uninsured or underinsured children throughout Chicago and its suburbs.
Infection Prevention
Loyola was one of the early adopters of germ-killing robots for room sanitation.
It was the first to mandate screening upon admission for the MRSA bacteria.
Loyola was one of the first centers in the area to adopt a respiratory panel that screens patients for 17 viral and three bacterial pathogens.
A trendsetting leader in infection prevention, Loyola was the first academic medical center in the region to require all employees to have an annual flu shot.
Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat Care)
Loyola was the first center in the Midwest to offer implantable hearing devices and Ear Lens.
Loyola was one of the first centers in the Midwest to perform hybrid cochlear implant surgery.
Loyola performs anterior skull base surgeries and has one of the few teams in the Midwest that can do these procedures.
Burn and Trauma Care
Loyola’s Burn Center is the most frequently used center by the Chicago Fire Department for fire victims. Loyola regularly cares for firefighters who are injured in the line of duty.
Loyola was the first center in Chicago to offer a noninvasive alternative to colonoscopies called PillCam™ Colon 2, a capsule containing two miniature cameras on either end. After the patient ingests the capsule, it travels through the digestive tract, capturing images and wirelessly transmitting them to a recorder worn by the patient.
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
The Gottlieb Allergy Count is the official allergy count for the Midwest, as sanctioned by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, during the allergy-reporting season (March through October).
The Gottlieb Allergy Count is reported by the Chicago Tribune, ABC, FOX, WGN and many other news outlets on a daily basis.
MacNeal Hospital
MacNeal offers one of the largest behavioral health services program in the Chicago area.
MacNeal provides excellent medical education programs, including the first Family Medicine Residency program established in Illinois, which remains one of the largest and most dynamic of its kind.