Advocate Christ Medical Center

Advocate Christ Medical Center
4440 West 95th Street
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
708-684-8000

Advocate Christ Medical Center is a 695-bed, not-for-profit teaching, research, and referral medical center in Oak Lawn, Illinois. It also is home to Advocate Hope Children's Hospital, one of the most comprehensive providers of pediatric care in the state. The medical center is a leader in cardiology, pediatrics, surgical services, oncology, women's services, and emergency medicine. Christ Medical Center is part of Advocate Health Care, one of the nation's leading integrated health care systems.

Christ Medical Center has a medical staff of more than 900 physicians who represent more than 60 specialties and subspecialties. Among its benchmark services, the medical center offers complete medical and surgical services for pediatric patients. Nearly 4,000 babies are born at the medical center each year. As a state-designated Level III perinatal center, the highest designation, Christ Medical Center provides critically ill infants the assistance they need to begin and sustain life.

Advocate Hope Children's Hospital opened its doors in November 1996. The facility has 45 private inpatient rooms, a 15-bed pediatric intensive care unit, and a 9-bed pediatric surgical heart unit. Hope Children's Hospital cares for more than 4,800 inpatients and registers more than 90,000 outpatient visits annually. In addition to providing general and specialized pediatric care, Hope Children's Hospital offers programs in pediatric cardiology. The Heart Institute for Children, located on site, is staffed by world-renowned cardiologists who provide advanced medical and surgical care for newborns, infants, and children. Christ Medical Center provides a full spectrum of adult cardiovascular services as well. The medical center's program leads Chicagoland in the number of patients served. Cardiac surgeons performed 1,319 adult and pediatric open heart surgeries in 2007.

Christ Medical Center additionally offers a state-designated Level I trauma center, which provides trauma patients with sophisticated emergency medical care. The emergency department treats more than 80,000 patients annually, including more trauma patients than any other Illinois hospital.