Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (Chicago). Northwestern Memorial HealthCare includes a 4,000-person medical staff and more than 30,000 employees at 100-plus locations in the Chicago area. U.S. News & World Report ranked its flagship hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, No. 1 in Illinois for 2016-17. Northwestern Memorial HealthCare includes seven hospitals and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Physicians at Northwestern Memorial HealthCare are involved in 4,500 clinical studies and trials, and the institution received more than $443 million in research grant awards for the 2015-16 academic year.
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