Lurie Children's Hospital

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois is a pediatric specialty hospital. Located in the downtown Streeterville neighborhood, the hospital has more than 1,200 physicians on its medical staff and 4,000 employees. Lurie Children’s offers 70 pediatric sub-specialties and has physicians at 14 other city and suburban locations. Based on volume, it is ranked #1 regionally in all pediatric specialties and is accredited by the Joint Commission . Physicians and staff provided highly specialized care for more than 148,000 children in 2011, from every U.S. state and 35 countries.
Founded in 1882 as the Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital, nurse and mother Julia Foster Porter established a 4-bed cottage at the corner of Chicago’s Halsted and Belden streets after the death of her 13-year-old son. It was the first hospital in Chicago focused solely on the care of children and pediatrics. The hospital expanded, was renamed Children’s Memorial Hospital in 1904, and moved to the corner of Fullerton and Lincoln avenues. It remained in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood for 130 years.

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