Clinical Programs

Inpatient and Outpatient Programs

The hospitals of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University as well as other Chicago area health facilities provide medical students and residents with the opportunity to interact with a variety of patients receiving psychiatric services on an inpatient and/or outpatient basis. The facilities—from urban to suburban—yield patient populations that are exceptionally diverse diagnostically, ethnically, and socioeconomically.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' 405 faculty members practice in one or more of Northwestern's affiliated psychiatric centers: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Evanston Hospital, Children's Memorial Hospital, and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center.

Affiliated Hospitals, Facilities, and Institutions

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH)

NMH, www.nmh.org, a 492-bed general hospital, is the primary academic teaching hospital and is located on the downtown Chicago campus of Northwestern University (12 miles south of Northwestern's main campus is in Evanston ). The Chicago campus is also the home of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, School of Law, Kellogg School of Management, and School of Continuing Studies. The campus is part of Chicago 's Gold Coast area, a cosmopolitan, vibrant, and elegant community. Noted for its outstanding primary and secondary care, NMH is also known for its tertiary and subspecialty care for adults. Members of the medical staff represent virtually every medical specialty and are recognized as among the best in the country. NMH is renowned for cardiovascular care, women's health, psychiatry, cancer, orthopedics, neurosciences, geriatrics, digestive diseases/transplantation, and AIDS. Nationally prominent, NMH is a federally designated Acute Spine Injury Center, a National Institutes of Health (NIH)–designated Vascular Center, and the only NIH-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Illinois.

In May 1999, the new Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a $580 million, 2 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art hospital and outpatient care center, opened. It features the 17-story Feinberg Pavilion for inpatient care with 492 all-private patient rooms and the Galter Pavilion for outpatient care, which provides office space for 800 physicians including those of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation. Additionally, a $152 million 12-story medical research facility, the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center of Northwestern University, opens in April 2005. The 400,000 square-foot building will house research in several crucial areas of investigation, including genetics, cardiology, biomedical engineering, aging, neurosciences, and oncology. About 170 research scientists and 1,000 support staff will work in the facility. With the building of this new research facility, coupled with the new hospital and ambulatory care pavilion, the hospital's and University's collective vision of being a world-class academic medical center moves forward.

NMH's Department of Psychiatry includes approximately 180 attending psychiatrists who are all Feinberg School faculty members. The Norman and Ida Stone Institute of Psychiatry, NMH's inpatient psychiatric facility, has 55 beds and admits 1,800 patients per year. Three separate clinical services are offered on three inpatient units: two acute general adult services and an older adult service. NMH's outpatient programs focus on two clinical areas: community mental health and outpatient treatment. The Outpatient Treatment Center is the ambulatory psychiatry training center and along with the other ambulatory psychiatry programs records approximately 84,000 outpatient visits per year. NMH sees a patient population that is exceptionally diverse diagnostically, ethnically, and socioeconomically.

Evanston Northwestern Hospital (ENH)

 The city of Evanston (pop. 73,000) borders Chicago to the north and is home to Northwestern University's main campus. The city is known for the unusual breadth of services available in the mental health arena, featuring 500 intermediate care beds for the mentally ill (at halfway houses, for example), shelters, and strong linkages with state facilities.

ENH, www.enh.org, one of three hospitals operated by Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, is a top-ranked regional trauma center and academic teaching hospital with the deep roots and congenial personality of a community hospital. The Department of Psychiatry, composed of 80 psychiatry attendings, provides a comprehensive array of clinical programs and services, including a 17-bed inpatient unit. At the Highland Park affiliate, services are provided in a substance use disorder program, partial hospital program and in an outpatient adolescent program, consultation-liaison services through the hospital and affiliated primary care offices, and a unique case management program geared to the needs of the chronically mentally ill residing in the community.

Children's Memorial Hospital (CMH)

 CMH, www.childrensmemorial.org, located three miles north of Northwestern's Chicago campus, is the 250-bed pediatric teaching hospital for the Feinberg School of Medicine and home its Department of Pediatrics. The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) at CMH forms the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Feinberg School along with NMH's Warren Wright Adolescent Center. CMH's psychiatry inpatient unit has 12 beds, and the partial hospitalization program has a capacity for 12 children. A Child Guidance Center first opened at CMH in 1954, and the multidisciplinary outpatient treatment service now provides 17,000 patient visits per year. The faculty, staff, and trainees of the CAP department at CMH also provide patient consultations to all other programs at CMH and evaluate children and adolescents in the CMH Pediatric Emergency Department. Other clinical programs include outreach to schools and a therapeutic summer camp.

Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

The Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, http://www.vagreatlakes.org/Chicago/ABO/, consists of a 205-bed acute care facilitiy and four community based outpatient clinics.  Jesse Brown VAMC provides care to approximately 62,000 veterans who reside in the City of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois and in six counties in northwestern Indiana.  In FY04, the medical center had approximately 7,600 inpatient admissions and 531,000 outpatient visits. A budget of over $235 million supports approximately 1,800 staff, including 180 physicians and 590 nurses. Over 500 individuals volunteer at Jesse Brown VAMC sites of care.

The Institute for Psychoanalysis of Chicago

The Institute for Psychoanalysis is a free-standing psychoanalytic institute. The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis provides comprehensive training in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy educational and clinical programs for the community. Many faculty members of the Institute are also faculty members at the Feinberg School and attendings at NMH. These analysts have a variety of significant teaching roles in the residency program. The Institute and Department of Psychiatry co-sponsor a yearly lectureship.

Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation (NMFF)

NMFF, www.nmff.org, is an academic, multi-specialty physician practice plan with 500 physicians and nearly 1,000 health professionals and staff. The physicians are full-time faculty members of Feinberg School of Medicine. It is located in downtown Chicago in a new state-of-the-art medical center complex at 675 North St. Clair Street. The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is one of seventeen NMFF Departments. Our full-time, NMFF faculty see and treat patients at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital and conduct research at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Furnishing nearly 10,000 visits per year, the psychiatry practice provides superior care in general psychiatry and has additional programs in forensic psychiatry, psychopharmacologic evaluation and management, and sexual and marital therapy.

In May 1999 NMFF moved most of its physician offices from more than 20 locations. The new medical center, owned jointly by Northwestern Memorial Hospital and NMFF, covers a full city block and is composed of 2 million square feet of space. The structure has two large towers: the 17-story Feinberg Pavilion, which houses 492 inpatient beds, and the 22-story Galter Pavilion, which is dedicated to outpatient care. Five floors of diagnostic and therapeutic services and three floors of public space connect these pavilions. NMFF owns 268,000 square feet spanning seven floors in the Galter Pavilion.

In the new medical center, NMFF's space is aesthetically pleasing, easy to navigate, and comfortably functional. Moreover, the overall design supports operational efficiency and innovation. For the convenience of NMFF patients, there is a NMFF reception desk in the main lobby of the Galter Pavilion as well as a Patient Services Center where patients can seek assistance, talk confidentially with staff or family members, or relax in a comfortable, inviting seating area. This new facility allows NMFF to provide health care services to patients in a pleasant, patient-centered, and compassionate environment.