Chicago

===Health systems===
[[File:Prentice Chicago 060816.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Prentice Women's Hospital on the [[Northwestern Memorial Hospital]] Downtown Campus]]
The [[Illinois Medical District]] is on the Near West Side. It includes [[Rush University Medical Center]], ranked as the second best hospital in the Chicago metropolitan area by ''U.S. News & World Report'' for 2014–16, the [[University of Illinois College of Medicine|University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago]], Jesse Brown VA Hospital, and [[John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County]], one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation.<ref>{{cite web |last=Havertz |first=Rieke |title=Counting Bullets: A Night at a Chicago Trauma Unit |url=http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/north-america-chicago-stroger-hospital-cook-county-youth-violence-counting-bullets-night-chicago-trauma-unit |work=[[Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting]] |access-date=September 2, 2013 |archive-date=August 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823113103/http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/north-america-chicago-stroger-hospital-cook-county-youth-violence-counting-bullets-night-chicago-trauma-unit |url-status=live }}</ref>

Two of the country's premier academic medical centers reside in Chicago, including [[Northwestern Memorial Hospital]] and the [[University of Chicago Medical Center]]. The Chicago campus of Northwestern University includes the [[Feinberg School of Medicine]]; Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which is ranked as the best hospital in the Chicago metropolitan area by ''U.S. News & World Report'' for 2017–18;<ref>{{cite web |url=https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/chicago-il |title=Rankings |website=health.usnews.com |access-date=April 12, 2021 |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213095509/https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/chicago-il |url-status=live }}</ref> the [[Shirley Ryan AbilityLab]] (formerly named the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), which is ranked the best U.S. rehabilitation hospital by ''U.S. News & World Report'';<ref>{{cite web |title=Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago |url=http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/il/rehabilitation-institute-of-chicago-6431012 |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=September 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819161644/http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/il/rehabilitation-institute-of-chicago-6431012 |archive-date=August 19, 2013}}</ref> the new [[List of Northwestern University buildings#Prentice Women's Hospital|Prentice Women's Hospital]]; and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

The [[University of Illinois College of Medicine]] at UIC is the second largest medical school in the United States (2,600 students including those at campuses in Peoria, Rockford and [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|Urbana–Champaign]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aamc.org/download/321526/data/factstableb1-2.pdf |title=Fact sheet |website=aamc.org |access-date=October 11, 2016 |archive-date=October 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016215352/https://www.aamc.org/download/321526/data/factstableb1-2.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

In addition, the [[Chicago Medical School]] and Loyola University Chicago's [[Stritch School of Medicine]] are located in the suburbs of [[North Chicago, Illinois|North Chicago]] and [[Maywood, Illinois|Maywood]], respectively. The [[Midwestern University]] Chicago College of [[Osteopathic medicine in the United States|Osteopathic Medicine]] is in [[Downers Grove, Illinois|Downers Grove]].

The [[American Medical Association]], [[Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education]], [[Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education]], [[American Osteopathic Association]], [[American Dental Association]], [[Academy of General Dentistry]], [[Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics]], [[American Association of Nurse Anesthetists]], [[American College of Surgeons]], [[American Society for Clinical Pathology]], American College of Healthcare Executives, the [[American Hospital Association]] and [[Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association]] are all based in Chicago.