| On Nov. 19, 2009, the Illinois Department of Public Health released the Illinois Hospital Report Card on its Web site.These are among the Report Card's major findings about Loyola University Medical Center:-- 71 percent of Loyola patients say they would definitely recommend the hospital to friends and family. The Illinois state average is 65 percent.-- Loyola used recommended treatments 96.3 percent of the time for heart attack care and 97.6 percent of the time for heart failure care. These rates are higher than state and national averages. Loyola used recommended treatments 88.3 percent of the time for pneumonia care. We have implemented new processes for pneumonia and influenza vaccinations for patients, with recently improved results.-- On surgical care safety measures, the percentage of Loyola patients receiving recommended medicines at the right time ranged from 96 percent to 100 percent.-- It should be noted that patient safety and mortality measures in the Report Card have not been adjusted for individual patient risk of mortality or severity of illness. Rates should not be used to compare hospitals. As an academic medical center, Loyola treats sicker and more challenging patients who are referred to us from other hospitals.
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| Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, Loyola University Health System is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and 28 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald� Childrens Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus in Melrose Park includes the 264-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center.
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