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La Rabida Renews Partnership with University of Chicago to aid Children with Special Needs

Monday July 20th, 2009

La Rabida Children’s Hospital announced today that officials recently renewed a partnership agreement with the University of Chicago Medical Center, extending a more than 50-year relationship to provide inpatient and outpatient care at La Rabida.

Under the new four-year agreement, the Medical Center will continue providing physician services for La Rabida’s outpatient clinics and attending physician coverage for its inpatients. La Rabida will also continue as a training site for the Medical Center’s pediatric residency and medical education programs.

A specialty hospital, La Rabida is committed to enhancing its wealth of resources for Chicago children with special needs who require a broad and deep range of services by dedicated physicians.

High-quality physicians who specialize in the treatment of children with special needs are drawn to the hospital, where the breadth and depth of programs are enhanced by the ongoing partnership with the Medical Center.

University of Chicago Medical Center
The University of Chicago Medical Center, established in 1927, is one of the nation's leading academic medical institutions. It consists of the renowned Pritzker School of Medicine; Bernard Mitchell Hospital, the primary adult patient care facility; Comer Children's Hospital, devoted to the medical needs of children; Chicago Lying-in Hospital, a maternity and women's hospital; and the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine, a state-of-the-art ambulatory-care facility with the full spectrum of preventive, diagnostic, and treatment functions.

The Medical Center is the only Illinois hospital ever to make the U.S.News & World Report Honor Roll, with eight clinical specialties--digestive disorders; cancer; endocrinology; neurology and neurosurgery; heart and heart surgery; kidney disease; geriatrics; and ear, nose and throat -- ranked among the top 30 programs nationwide.