UChicago Medicine has received a four-year renewal of its Magnet designation, the highest national honor that recognizes quality patient care and excellence in the professional practice of nursing.
A new study on the intramuscular nerve cords of octopuses reveals that they are connected in a unique and unexpected geometric structure.
In a recently published Nature Cancer paper, UChicago Medicine researchers have identified the first biomarker - aneuploidy - that predicts response to the radiation therapy and immune checkpoint blockade treatment combination.
Newsweek magazine ranked nine UChicago Medicine specialties as among the best in the world in its latest 2023 list of top global specialized hospitals. The publication also listed the University of Chicago Medical Center, based in Hyde Park, among the world's top smart hospitals.
The University of Chicago Medical Center has earned its 22nd consecutive 'A' grade in hospital and patient safety from The Leapfrog Group, extending a 10-year run of scoring top honors from the independent watchdog organization. Of the thousands of acute-care facilities nationwide, the 811-bed University of Chicago Medical Center is one of only 22 hospitals in the country to have earned the top grade in all 22 of The Leapfrog Group's semiannual report cards, which began in 2012.
The treatment is the first therapy to mitigate heart muscle damage after catheter-based intervention and could increase long-term survival for heart attack patients.
The 2022 Simon M. Shubitz Prize and Lecture was awarded to John Carpten, PhD, an internationally recognized expert in cancer genomics and precision oncology.
Dr. Thomas Spiegel has been appointed Chief Quality Officer and Dr. Ira Blumen named Interim Chief for the Section of Emergency Medicine at UChicago Medicine.
UChicago Medicine will expand its collaboration with Silver Cross Hospital by adding neuroscience and neurological disorders care to the New Lenox facility.
While hormone therapy was associated with higher self-reported quality of life in white women, Black women actually experienced lower overall quality of life under the same treatment.
New research on ancient DNA found individuals with two copies of a specific variant of the ERAP2 gene were much more likely to survive the plague.
Renowned UChicago Medicine health disparities researcher Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MsC, was one of 100 people elected to the 2022 class of the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the field. Peek, an internist and the Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice, was elected for her international leadership in reducing health disparities through research examining how structural racism and the social determinants of health perpetuate disparities in Black communities.
A recent survey showed that family and friends who care for dependent adults are at increased risk of health-related socioeconomic vulnerabilities compared to non-caregivers.
A study by UChicago researchers identifies the role that the BNIP3 protein plays in the development of fatty liver and liver cancer.
The University of Chicago Medicine's heart transplant program is making history once again. The program's transplant survival rates and transplant wait times are not only the best in the country, but they're the best in the history of heart transplantation, according to an analysis of Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data.
The University of Chicago has received a $10 million gift from the Lohengrin Foundation to help establish a center of excellence in research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. ALS and its related conditions are devastating neurological diseases. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS progressively destroys nerve cells that control body movements, and affects as many as 30,000 Americans each year.
The common, inexpensive supplement was linked with a 44% reduction in suicide attempts and self-harm.
Jasmin A. Tiro, PhD, MPH, has joined the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center as the new Associate Director of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences. Tiro was formerly Professor of Population and Data Sciences at Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
UChicago Medicine has promoted Alesia Coe to Vice President for Adult Inpatient Services and Associate Chief Nursing Officer.
UChicago Medicine and AdventHealth signed a definitive agreement to enter into an affiliation that will increase access to a spectrum of services, treatment options and cutting-edge clinical trials for residents in Chicago’s western suburbs.
A nursing leader with nearly two decades of health experience, Gretchen Pacholek has led key organizational initiatives and overseen operative improvements at UChicago Medicine.
Grant expands access for medical, pharmacy and nursing students to a new course on strategies for correcting false medical information.
University of Chicago Medicine Feed1st pantries distributed more than twice as much food than normal between March 2020 and November 2021, while pantry program at a similar hospital that required patrons to provide identification to receive food saw distribution rates drop.
Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency Preparedness Program (MedCEEP), a program created to empower underrepresented minority youth to become trained in recognizing and responding to the most prevalent life-threatening emergency scenarios while being exposed to health-related careers, has received a $15,000 grant from My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation.
A new €10M grant will support an international, multi-institution effort to develop algorithms capable of predicting an individual patient’s response to immunotherapy.
The University of Chicago Medicine named Keisha Mullings-Smith as its new Vice President, Chief Experience Officer.
Maia Hightower, MD, MBA, MPH, an internist and accomplished healthcare IT executive, has been named the University of Chicago Medicine’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Digital & Technology Officer effective August 15, 2022. Hightower is CEO and co-founder of Equality AI, a startup that helps clinical teams achieve health equity through responsible AI and machine-learning operations.
Researchers assessing the accuracy of star ratings for the Nursing Home Care Compare system found the number and severity of pressure ulcers in patients was underreported, thus questioning the reliability of the self-reported data on patient safety measures.
Eighteen South Side community groups are receiving $150,000 to support their grassroots work supporting youth and keeping them safe during the summer — a time when violence and violent injuries typically increases in the Chicagoland area. The funding is made possible through the annual grants program from Southland RISE (Resilience Initiative to Strengthen and Empower), a collaborative uniting the trauma recovery programs from the University of Chicago Medicine and Advocate Health Care.
The University of Chicago Medicine broke ground on a new two-story, 130,000-square-foot multispecialty care center and micro-hospital in Northwest Indiana for what will be the academic health system's largest off-site facility and its first freestanding building in Indiana. The $121 million state-of-the-art care center, at I-65 and 109th Avenue in Crown Point, is expected to open in spring of 2024.
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