Fortune June 30, 2020
Evanston Hospital, the flagship of the NorthShore University HealthSystem, has long been considered one of Chicagoland’s premier health centers. Founded as a six-bed “Emergency Hospital” in 1891, amid a deadly outbreak of typhoid fever in Chicago and its neighboring towns, the hospital kept going and growing after the emergency ended—adding one of the earliest obstetrical units in the area, then a nursing school, a cancer center, an advanced trauma unit, and a teaching affiliation, at first with Northwestern University and later with the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. In the 1920s and ’30s, an Evanston physician-researcher helped perfect the vaccine for whooping cough; in the ’90s, the hospital opened a center for medical genetics; at the start of...
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