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Evanston Northwestern Healthcare |
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Center Overview
Type of Center:
Located in Chicago's northern suburbs, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) is an academic health system affiliated with Northwestern University.
Most attending physicians at ENH are on faculty at the Feinberg School of
Medicine. ENH is an integrated delivery system that includes Evanston, Glenbrook
and Highland Park Hospitals as well as ENH Home Services, ENH
Medical Group, ENH Research Institute, and the ENH Foundation.
History of Centers:
Evanston Hospital:
With a history dating to 1891, the 476 - bed Evanston Hospital is the
nucleus of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH). Evanston Hospital
demonstrates leadership in cancer and cardiac care, providing
specialized cancer services at The Kellogg Cancer Care Center and
comprehensive heart care at the Cardiovascular Care Center. Physicians
work alongside leading researchers to translate the latest technology,
treatment and research into improved patient care. As the regional
center for high-risk obstetrics, the Women’s Hospital offers a
comfortable birthing environment where high-risk mothers and their
babies have access to the latest technology and a highly-trained staff.
The hospital is a licensed Level II Trauma Center.
Glenbrook Hospital:
Opened in 1977, Glenbrook Hospital is a 143-bed hospital facility
offering high-tech medical care in a community hospital setting. Few
hospitals of its size deliver such diverse services as cardiac care
including cardiac catheterization and ultra fast CT scan, total hip and
knee replacement, the Eye and Vision Center for LASIK and other eye
surgery, and neurological services including a sleep center, a
cognitive and memory disorder program and a Parkinson's Disease clinic.
Glenbrook Hospital also features a “state of the art” GI suite with advanced
technology. Paired with a highly qualified team of physicians, the
gastroenterology program is among the strongest in the region for
research, diagnosis and treatment. Children's at Glenbrook provides
outpatient pediatric services and ambulatory surgery in partnership
with Children's Memorial Hospital. Glenbrook Hospital is a Level II
Trauma Center
Highland Park Hospital:
Founded in 1918, Highland Park Hospital has provided high-quality
healthcare for more than 80 years. The 239-bed hospital is the site of
the first open heart surgery in Lake County. The new Ambulatory Care
Center offers advanced capabilities, including multi-disciplinary
cancer care at the Kellogg Cancer Care Center, a CT/PET scan for
diagnostics and a CT Simulator and Linear Accelerator for radiation
therapy. A wide variety of mental health services, including a center
for eating disorders, adolescent psychiatric care and the Doreen E.
Chapman Center for substance abuse, are also available.
ENH Research Institute:
Today, a large number of our stellar clinician-scientists have received
highly competitive grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
These men and women are members of the Corporation's "million- dollar
club" by virtue of their million-dollar-plus grants for studies
ranging from Advanced Imaging to the secrets of
killer cells with far-reaching implications for diseases such as cancer
and arthritis. The Institute serves as a focal point for nearly 200
externally funded research faculty and $100 million in external
research funding. The Research Institute has approximately 115,000 net
square feet of research space. Emphasis is on translational and
clinical research allowing discoveries from the basic sciences to be
brought promptly to the bedside. Funding from the NIH places the
hospitals of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare among the top 12 multi-
specialty independent research hospitals in the country. Our growing reputation as an academic medical institution has
contributed to the Institute's spectacular success. The Corporation's commitment to research allows the ENH Research
Institute to adhere to its
mission:
- To enhance the academic medical center environment at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
- To create an environment and an endowment to recruit and retain externally funded research investigators
- To integrate "leading edge" research into improved clinical care
- To recruit the nation's top clinicians and differentiate Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and its clinicians in the marketplace
- To establish and enhance strong links to area corporations and Northwestern University.
The Facilities:
The ENH Research Park Building: is the headquarters of our growing research enterprise, this new facility provides clinical and translational research space in the heart of Northwestern University-Evanston Research Park.
Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Building: is a new research and administrative building on the Evanston Hospital campus containing offices and laboratory space for research staff and faculty and is a hub for clinical research efforts. The building houses the Center for Advanced Imaging, which provides up-to-the-minute imaging technology to support physician-scientists in every medical specialty.
Arthur and Gladys Pancoe-Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Life Sciences Pavilion: On Northwestern University's Evanston campus, less than a mile from Evanston Hospital, translational and basic scientists work side-by-side in a new facility made possible by the generosity of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Arthur and Gladys Pancoe.
Center for Advanced Imaging: includes two MRI bays (Siemens 1.5T Avanto and GE 3T 16 channel Excite HDx), with subject preparation rooms, consultation rooms, image processing lab, RF development lab, animal preparation room, C-arm for endovascular and other x-ray based imaging. An image processing laboratory equipped with a GE Advantage workstation, 4 PCs with Linux and equipped with several standard image processing software packages including MATLAB, SPM and AFNI as well as ImageJ 1.32j from the National Institutes of Health. Parallel image reconstruction software PMRI and in-house routines for networking, data reformatting, multi-plane reformatting, 3D volume rendering, etc are also available. In addition, Compaq PC, Hewlett Packard Series 700 and Sun Sparcstations including a Sparc Server 1000, two CPUs, four Sparc 20s, four Sparc 5s, and two Xterm are available within the Radiology Department with custom designed image processing tools, spreadsheet, statistics, and graphical software needed for data processing and analysis. Additional resources include a Mitsubishi image printer, Kodak laser cameras, an AGFA Forte Film recorder, and a Nikon slide scanner. These facilities are dedicated to research purposes.
Clinical imaging facilities including five 1.5 T MR imaging systems are also available for research. Two GE Medical scanners are located at Evanston Hospital, including a 1.5 T CVi system with 40 mT/m gradients, a LX platform 1.5 T system and an Advantage workstation.
ENH Medical Group: is comprised of 467 employed primary and specialty care physicians throughout the north and northwest suburbs of Chicago. Attending physicians are on faculty at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
Recognition and Awards:
- April 2005: Consumers Digest identified only three Illinois hospitals as an exceptional US hospital in safety: Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park Hospitals.
- The Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) added Evanston Northwestern Healthcare to their list of hospitals that have embraced the concept of publicly reporting efforts to reduce medical errors.
- CEO IT Achievement Award presented to Mark R. Neaman, President and CEO of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare.
- CIO 100 Award: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare was honored at the 18th annual CIO 100 awards which celebrated 100 organizations that demonstrate "boldness". According to CIO magazine, "boldness is the willingness to embrace significant risk for the sake of great reward. Organizations and leaders that are bold are playing to win, not just survive".
- Top 100 U.S. Hospitals for 10 Years
- 100 Most Wired Hospitals Award
- Davies Award for Excellence for Healthcare Organizations presented by The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
- We achieved the highest value rating from the KLAS Research Consulting Firm that monitors and reports the performance of healthcare information technology vendors
2006 Statistics:
- 7,181 Employees
- 38,361 Admissions (including births)
- 81% Occupancy Percentage
- 4.8 Average Length of Stay (in days)
- 93,591 Total Emergency Room Visits
- 896,909 Outpatient visits (excluding Outpatient Emergency Room visits)
- $20.4 million in Philanthropy
Mission Statement:
The core mission of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare is to preserve and
improve human life. This mission will be achieved through the
provision of superior clinical care, academic excellence, and
innovative research.
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare is a not-for-profit corporation principally formed to provide quality healthcare services for the communities it serves. The delivery of healthcare services is provided in a wide range of inpatient and ambulatory healthcare settings, community-wide, employing modern technology and expertise. Support for qualified residents who may not be able to pay the entire cost of their care is a part of the organization's commitment. The organization's primary service area includes Chicago's north shore, northern suburbs, and its environs. In support of its primary mission of patient care, the corporation engages in a wide range of academic activities in medical education and research, and does so largely by way of its affiliation with Northwestern University.
This statement recognizes the Board of Directors responsibility to maintain the organization's viability to meet its long-term commitment to the communities it serves. It further recognizes the responsibility to maintain technologically current assets for this purpose. This includes the cultivation and development of our physicians, employees, physical plant, equipment, and other resources to assure orderly growth of our services.
Clinical Research Experience
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute has worked with the following sponsors:
All major pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers including:
- Abbott Laboratories
- AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
- Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc
- Astellas Research Institute of America (ARIA, formerly Fuijisawa)
- Baxter Healthcare/Baxter International Inc.
- Boston Scientific Corporation
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co
- Eli Lilly & Co.
- Genentech, Inc.
- Glaxo Smithkline Pharmaceuticals
- Guidant Corp.
- Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC
- Medtronic, Inc.
- Merck & Company, Inc.
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
- Ortho-McNeil Inc
- Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research
- Pfizer
- Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Schering-Plough Research Institute
- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Investigator Experience
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Obstetric/Gynecology: Oncology: Ophthalmology: Otolaryngology: Pathology: Pediatric/Neonatology: Psychiatry/Psychology: Pulmonary/Respiratory Diseases: Radiology/Medical Imaging: Rheumatology: Toxicology: Trauma/Emergency Medicine: |
Other Information
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare has two Institutional Review Boards operating under Federal Wide Assurance -Number FWA00003000 - on file with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. One Board meets the 1st Friday, the other meets the 3rd Friday of each month. Principal Investigators are invited to attend the IRB meeting at which their project is being discussed, in order to facilitate approval process. The IRBs oversee a clinical research program of 700-800 active trials.
Currently Enrolling Trials
CenterWatch is listing the following trials that are actively recruiting patients at this center.
- A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Comparison Study Of The Safety And Efficacy Of A Once-Daily Dose Of Tigecycline Versus Ertapenem For The Treatment Of Foot Infections In Subjects With Diabetes
- A Phase 2/3 Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Golimumab Induction Therapy, Administered Intravenously, in Subjects With Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis
- A Phase 3 Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Golimumab Maintenance Therapy, Administered Subcutaneously, in Subjects With Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis
- A Randomized, Phase II/III, Study of TNFerade™ Biologic with 5-FU and Radiation Therapy for First-line Treatment of Unresectable Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
- Effect of Septal Closure of Atrial PFO on Events of Migraine with PREMERE: the ESCAPE migraine trial
- Intravesical Alkalized Lidocaine for the Treatment of Overactive Bladder (OAB), a Randomized, Prospective Double-Blinded Controlled Trial.
- STA-4783 With Paclitaxel versus Paclitaxel Alone in Melanoma
Contact Information
For more information, please contact:
Bruce Steinert, PhD, CCRA
Administrative Director, Clinical Trials Center
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
2650 Ridge Avenue
Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Building
Suite 3505
Evanston, IL 60201 USA
Phone: 847-570-5843
Fax: 847-570-5846
E-mail:
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