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| Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital | |
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| Northwestern Medicine[1] | |
 Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Visitor Entrance | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 1000 North Westmoreland Road, Lake Forest, Illinois, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Not-for-profit |
| Type | General |
| Affiliated university | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level II Trauma (Lake Forest) Level II Trauma(Grayslake) |
| Beds | 201 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1899 (Alice Home) 1942 (Lake Forest Hospital) |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.lfh.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in Illinois |
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital (NLFH) is a community-based hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, one of the nation's premiere academic medical centers.[2] The hospital was established in 1899 as Alice Home on the campus of Lake Forest College,[3] and in 1942 a new hospital was built in its current location as Lake Forest Hospital.[4] On February 1, 2010, Lake Forest Hospital completed an affiliation agreement with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and became Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital.[2]
The 201-bed hospital is on a 160-acre (65 ha) campus in Lake Forest and provides a comprehensive array of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services.[5] At the main campus in Lake Forest, services include an inpatient hospital, a women's center providing maternity and breast care services, a health and fitness center and a nursing care facility.[6] The hospital has 700 board-certified physicians specializing in 90 specialties on its medical staff.[7]
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital is a partner of Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, one of the nation's top-ranked children's hospitals.[8] Lurie Children's Outpatient Center and Lurie Children's hospitalists and neonatologists provide infant and pediatric care 24 hours a day to patients at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital.[9]
- ^ Medicine, Northwestern. "Locations". Northwestern Medicine. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Sign Affiliation Agreement" (PDF). Press Release. NMH. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ "Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital". Lake Forest Lake Bluff Patch Directory. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- ^ "Alice Home, Lake Forest Hospital, 1899-1942". Archives and Special Collections at Lake Forest College. Retrieved 11 January 2013.[dead link]
- ^ Among the Oak Trees: A History of the People and Events That Created Lake Forest Hospital. Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital. 2010. p. 73.
- ^ "Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
- ^ Labuda, Lisa. "Welcome Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital". Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Patch.com. Patch. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
- ^ U.S. News & World Report. "Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago". U.S. News Best Children's Hospitals 2012-13. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- ^ "Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children;s Hospital of Chicago Partner Hospitals: Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital". Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2013.