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Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital | |
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Northwestern Medicine[1] | |
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]