Edward Hospital

Edward Hospital is a full-service, regional healthcare provider offering access to complex medical specialties and innovative programming. Edward Hospital has 371 private patient rooms and 5,800 employees across Edward division affiliates, including 1,200 nurses and a medical staff of nearly 1,000 physicians comprised of independent members of the medical staff, employed physicians and independent contractors. The physicians represent 82 medical and surgical specialties and sub-specialties with 98% board certified in their specialty -- a designation awarded only to physicians who complete rigorous post-medical school training and pass an extensive certification test. Edward serves the residents of chicago's west and southwest suburbs, including naperville, aurora, bolingbrook, downers grove, homer glen, joliet, lemont, lisle, lockport, minooka, oswego, plainfield, romeoville, shorewood, warrenville, wheaton, woodridge and yorkville. Accredited by the joint commission, Edward has earned a reputation as a leader in complex medical specialties and innovative programming, including, but not limited to the following: -- most up-to-date surgical suites, including six state-of-the-art operating rooms for minimally invasive surgical procedures and the da vinci xi and si robotic surgical systems. -- comprehensive, advanced cardiac care in one location through Edward heart Hospital -- healthawares, an online test so people can determine their risk for heart disease, anxiety, sleep disorders, stroke, breast cancer, diabetes, addiction, depression, lung disease, colon cancer and weight-related issues. -- Edward provides world class stroke care through the Edward neurosciences institute in affiliation with northwestern medicine. The institute features the most advanced interventional neurosurgery techniques and drug therapies to treat strokes and other neurological disorders. -- Edward cancer center has opened a number of multidisciplinary oncology clinics, including a multidisciplinary thoracic oncology clinic, the first of its kind in dupage, will and kane counties, for coordinated, faster, more efficient treatment of lung cancer and other malignancies and abnormalities of the chest; a neuro-oncology multidisciplinary center, the only one in the area to treat brain and spinal cord tumors and a breast cancer conference, a multidisciplinary team that meets weekly to determine the best treatment plan for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. -- Edward was re-designated a magnet Hospital for nursing excellence a third time (2019); original designation - 2005, first re-designation - 2010: second re-designation - 2014; one of only eight hospitals in Illinois to have achieved magnet status four times or more. -- care for the most critically ill newborns in its level iii newborn intensive care unit (nicu). -- expert emergency services for adults and pediatric patients in its level ii emergency department and pediatric emergency department. -- state-of-the-art imaging technology at numerous locations throughout the region. -- access to the latest clinical trials for cancer and heart disease. -- first in the region to offer animal-assisted therapy, music therapy and art therapy through its healing arts program. For more information about Edward Hospital, visit www.eehealth.org.