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The University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences, one of the nation's leading academic medical institutions, has been at the forefront of medical care since 1927, when it first opened to patients. Today, it comprises the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, a section committed to scientific discovery; and the University of Chicago Medical Center (including Comer Children's Hospital), consistently ranked among the best U.S. hospitals in national surveys. Twelve Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine have been affiliated with the UChicago Medicine. Located in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago, UChicago Medicine has 796 licensed beds, 39 operating rooms, about 900 physicians, nearly 1,000 residents and fellows, and about 2,300 nurses. The medical campus includes the Center for Care and Discovery, Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital, Comer Children’s Hospital. and Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM). The medical center also features a Burn & Complex Wound Center and a designated Level 1 pediatric trauma center. A Level 1 adult trauma center is scheduled to open in early 2018. UChicago Medicine has a number of off-campus affiliations and partnerships to bring its specialists closer to Chicagoland communities. They include Silver Cross Hospital for cancer care and Little Company of Mary Hospital and Edward-Elmhurst Health for specialty pediatric care. In addition, UChicago Medicine recently broke ground for its Center for Advanced Care at Orland Park, which is set to open by early 2017, and will open an 18,000-square-foot clinic in the South Loop in January 2017. Find out more at: http://twitter.com/UChicagoMed http://www.youtube.com/UChicagoMedCenter http://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/ Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. To accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and further the knowledge of those dedicated to caring.

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