Northwestern is a top medical school and it ended its affiliation with ONE hospital system - for a very good reason. Northwestern Med is moving up, and ENH was not keeping up.
Northwestern is part of The McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, and today is made up of:
-Northwestern University
-Children's Memorial Hospital
-Northwestern Memorial Hospital
including - Prentice Women's Hospital
and -Stone Institute of Psychiatry
-Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
-Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Our Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center is one of the best women's hospitals in the nation, our Rehab Institute is THE BEST in the country, and we are building a brand new children's hospital that should be among the best (so we will soon have two top children's hospitals). The strength of our medical departments from Anesthesiology to Neurosurgery are all very high, with many in the top 10 or 20 programs nation-wide.
Here's a helpful link:
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/research/affiliates/index.html
Here's a direct quote from the published article about the disaffiliation:
"Despite many reasons to continue the affiliation with ENH, we cannot afford to compromise our academic vision and missions, expectations for faculty roles, and the processes that all great universities employ to select their faculty and leaders. In essence, the level of autonomy demanded by ENH was incompatible with an academic culture of collaboration, partnership, peer-review, and accountability."
Please check it out at:
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/clinical-services/faq/index.html
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