Christ Medical Center
Philanthropy at Advocate Christ Medical Center
Christ Medical Center and Hope Children's Hospital are committed to both clinical excellence and community outreach. Philanthropic support allows us to advance that excellence and to extend that outreach. Your gift will play a key role in supporting essential programs that might not otherwise be possible.
Below is a list of programs at Christ Medical Center and Hope Children's Hospital that currently need your support.
Christ Medical Center Area of Greatest Need
Helping Christ Medical Center excel
Giving to Christ Medical Center's area of greatest need provides additional resources and flexibility to respond quickly to new ideas and programs that support the hospital's strategic directions.
Adopt-A-School Program
Reaching out to care for kids
Help improve the health and lives of the 1,100 students attending Dawes Elementary School, a Chicago Public School, with a gift to this program. Services include parent, teacher and student health education, school physicals, immunizations and mentoring. These services are managed by the pediatric residency program.
Adult Cancer Care Services
Supporting the fight against cancer
Contributions to this fund support the work of a team of dedicated clinicians and caregivers who emphasize education, early detection, screening programs, wholistic treatment and ongoing research to fight one of the leading causes of death in America.
Cardiac Services
Enabling clinical excellence in cardiology
Your gift helps Christ Medical Center, one of the top cardiovascular hospitals in the nation, listen and respond to cardiac patient needs by delivering comprehensive, compassionate care, from prevention to state-of-the-art diagnostics to intervention and rehabilitation.
Funds contributed to this priority allow Christ Medical Center to move forward as a premier center for cardiac services on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Future plans include the advancement of ongoing programs and expansion of new programs such as additional cardiac surgical suites, a heart disease diagnosis and management center, an arrhythmia center, a mechanical heart program, the congestive heart failure program, cardiac rehabilitation, community education and partnership, and clinical research.
Clinical Auditorium and Conference Center
Advancing medical education
The addition of this facility confirms Christ Medical Center's status as a major medical teaching institution. At the center of the project is a 275-seat auditorium with advanced video conferencing and technology capabilities. Surrounding the main auditorium are several conference facilities allowing flexible and comfortable amenities for a variety of needs.
Your gifts help support continuing clinical and community education.
Electronic Intensive Care Unit at Christ
Creating an extra layer of monitoring for critical patients
The electronic intensive care unit (eICU) provides around the clock centralized video/audio monitoring by Advocate physicians and nurses for our most critical patients in our intensive care units. Your gift helps this technology supplement the already high level of care provided by our hospital and enhances the quality of care we provide to our patients. The eICU has the potential to save lives, significantly reduce complications, and reduce the length of a patient's stay in an ICU.
Inpatient Oncology Unit
Enhancing the healing experience
Each year, more than 1,400 newly diagnosed cancer patients rely on Christ Medical Center for the treatment of their cancer. To help provide even better care to our patients, Christ Medical Center is creating a new inpatient oncology unit. With your support, the new unit will offer private rooms with accommodations for a patient's family to stay overnight with their loved one and provide a healing, therapeutic environment.
Live from the Heart
Educating young people on the importance of heart health
Created in partnership with the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, the centerpiece of Live from the Heart is an interactive, facility broadcast featuring live open-heart surgery performed at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Middle and high school students view this broadcast as part of a six-lesson unit on heart health. Over 25,000 students have participated in the program, which illustrates the physiologic importance of the heart, explores behaviors that influence students' lifestyle choices affecting their cardiovascular health, and encourage interest in health science careers.
Nursing Education and Excellence
Developing the skills and research potential of nurses
Your gifts support research and continuing education opportunities for Christ Medical Center nurses, helping them develop professionally and personally.
Operating Room/Intensive Care Unit Expansion
Enabling the highest standards of care for our most critically injured patients
Funds contributed to this priority allow Christ Medical Center to renovate and expand Chicagoland's busiest intensive care unit. Plans include adding two surgical suites.
Women's and Infants' Health Services
Lending a helping hand to moms and babies
Contributions to this fund help women and babies live happier, healthier lives. Services include comprehensive primary and preventive care; educational classes and health screenings; a complete spectrum of specialty services to address women's health care needs across the lifespan; and specialized infant services such as pediatric care, a neonatal intensive care unit, prenatal testing and high-risk and genetic counseling.
Funds contributed to this priority enable Advocate Christ Medical Center/Advocate Hope Children's Hospital to upgrade, expand and renovate the areas of the hospital which serve the needs of women at all stages of pregnancy and their children. Focus will be on the birthing areas, neonatal intensive care unit and pediatric intensive care unit.
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