Residency
Hospital,
Medical Center, Community
In
a suburb of Chicago
Foster G. McGaw Hospital
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More
than 19,000 surgical patients a year...
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Clinical
anesthesia training is centered in Foster G. McGaw Hospital within
the Loyola Medical Center, which is in Maywood, Illinois, a Cook
County suburb of Chicago. We are also affiliated with the Hines
Veteran Administration Medical Center.
Loyola
University Hospital is a tertiary care institution with over 600 beds,
including a high risk obstetrical center, a trauma unit, a burn
center, a cancer center and active cardiac, pulmonary, renal and
liver transplant programs. We are home to the Ronald McDonald
Children’s Hospital and have state of the art Pediatric and
Neonatal Intensive Care Units. All clinical specialties are represented
with a broad mix of referral problems as well as primary care
patients from Maywood and adjacent communities.
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Graduates and faculty from this
program have definitely made an impact in the
Anesthesiology community as Loyola's good reputation is
known country-wide.
Kevin Owen M.D.
In private practice in Colorado,
Class of 2005
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More than
19,000 surgical patients a year come through our 18 new operating
rooms and recovery room. Because of their acuity, many are cared
for in our intensive care units or intermediate care units before
returning to a surgical floor. Ancillary services include: complete
clinical laboratories, CT and nuclear medicine facilities, special
invasive therapy units, social welfare/chaplain services and an additional
ambulatory surgical
center at nearby Oak Brook Terrace. The free-standing Loyola Outpatient Center has
eight operating rooms where anesthesia services
are provided for outpatient surgery. The main hospital and adjacent
medical school building were opened in 1969 and often function
above 95% occupancy. Ground was broken in 1984 for a new wing,
the Russo Pavilion, incorporating 16 large modern operating rooms,
cardiac catheterization laboratories, enlarged recovery and intensive
care units and additional patient beds. Two additional operating
rooms were added in January 1998. Varied experience can be obtained
from this tertiary care hospital, from the high turn over ambulatory
setting, and from our other remote locations where we provide
anesthesia services.
The Medical Center
The Loyola
University Medical Center includes:
- the medical school, originally founded in 1915, now with
its new highly acclaimed medical school facilities
- the outpatient center with ambulatory services, four operating
rooms where over 4600 operations were performed last year
- a multi-disciplinary pain control center
- a baccalaureate nursing program
- research laboratories
- administration and maintenance services
- comprehensive new fitness center
Community
Together
with the Madden Mental Health Center and the Hines VA Hospital,
the component medical center occupies a square mile of land along
side the Miller Meadow Section of the Des Plaines River Forest
Preserve, between the Eisenhower and Stevenson expressways. Nearby
in the western suburbs of Chicago are pleasant residential communities
with available and affordable housing, good schools and a variety
of shopping and leisure activities including Brookfield Zoo, Morton
Arboretum, Allstate Arena and the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic area.
The Lake
Michigan beaches are just 10 miles to the east and Chicago, the
third largest city in the US, is even closer. Chicago has a world
famous Symphony Orchestra, Art Institute, Field Museum, Museum
of Science and Industry, Planetarium, Aquarium, many large parks
and more. All sports fans know that Chicago is the hometown for
the Bears, Bulls, Cubs, White Sox, Blackhawks, and Fire.
The greater
Chicago medical community includes six medical schools as well
as many other institutions with biomedical and scientific departments.
There are remarkable cooperation and interchange between these
institutions. The anesthesia community, in particular, profits
from the fruits of this greater collegiality, sponsoring and actively
attending the Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists bi-monthly
study commission, the Chicago Society of Anesthesiologists
bi-monthly
lectures with dinner, the nationally famous MAC-PAC, Midwest Anesthesia
Conference - Post Anesthesia Conference, now in its 35th year
and the Midwest Anesthesia Residents’ Conference (MARC).
An interlocking faculty trained at one institution and teaching
at another provides a broad, solidly based anesthesia community
with high standards and professionally rewarding practices. Loyola
residents, staff and alumni are active participants in this community
of excellence.
