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East 65th St. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Rush University Medical Center. University Of Chicago Medical Center. University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago. Their support declining by the early twentieth century as scientific medicine became more accurate and effective, homeopathic medical colleges found improvement in medical education difficult to implement, and their hospitals closed or adopted traditional techniques.
During the mid-nineteenth century, however, homeopaths in Chicago held a strong hand. Friction between them and regular medical practitioners became a political battle in , when the former sought representation on the medical staff of what was to be the new city hospital at 18th and LaSalle streets. The argument prevented the institution from opening until , when Rush faculty members rented it for use as a private hospital. In , the U. Army commandeered it for a military hospital, until the Civil War ended and the county leased it.
Cook County finally had a relatively permanent hospital. As the number of charity cases grew, however, the old building proved too small, and County Hospital moved to new pavilions at the present site at Wood and Harrison Streets in Larger structures replaced these beginning in , and these in turn were replaced in the first years of the twenty-first century. Authorities transferred this asylum, the Cook County Hospital for the Insane, to the care of the state of Illinois in , and the name changed to Chicago State Hospital.
Institutional efforts against tuberculosis began with the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, which established the Edward Sanatorium in To care for sick and injured sailors who worked on the Great Lakes , the federal government set up a hospital in on the grounds of Fort Dearborn.
It later moved north of the city to what became the Uptown neighborhood. The Hines facility in Maywood was among the largest. Seen as part of a church's mission, religious hospitals were shaped by a charitable imperative and a desire to save souls while caring for the sick.
Religious symbols and the presence of religious nursing orders provided constant reminders of spirituality. Luke's Hospital, a charity of Grace Episcopal Church on the Near South Side , began in in a small frame structure at 8th and State Streets, eventually moving into larger buildings on south Indiana and Michigan Avenues.
Destroyed by the fire, in it reopened at Dearborn and Superior as the Emergency Hospital, later named Passavant after its founder. In , Northwestern University Medical School adopted Emergency as a site for clinical instruction. Methodist Wesley Memorial Hospital, established in , joined Passavant as part of Northwestern's Chicago campus in The Alexian Brothers, a Roman Catholic male nursing order originating during the bubonic plague of the thirteenth century, started a small hospital for males in Its first substantial building was at Dearborn and Schiller.
After two years, Alexian moved to larger quarters at North and Franklin. It rebuilt after the fire, moving in to Belden and Racine and then to Elk Grove Village in The Sisters of Charity began St. Joseph's Hospital in Lake View in It now serves the community from a modern high-rise building at Diversey Avenue near the lake.
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