Word on Street: Evanston Northwestern Health Care Looks South

The word on the street is that Evanston Northwestern Health Care (ENH) which runs Evanston Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital and Highland Park Hospital is looking for a new academic affiliate. Will it say good bye to Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and hello to a new partner? Even as ENH plans to buy Rush North Shore Hospital it is in negotiations with Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago (formerly Chicago Medical School) for a possible new Academic affiliation.

Northwestern Med's Dean Larry Jameson has expressed the wish that ENH contribute more dollars to the med school to support research and teaching reinforcing the suspicion at the downtown campus of Northwestern Med that ENH gets the cache of the Northwestern name without contributing much in the way of funds back to the med school. Unfair cries Dr. Jameson.

It won't be long, I predict, before the University of Chicago Medical School is in the game. ENH may be looking south rather than north. More later.  

p.s.  Where is Glenbrook Hospital?  Not in Glenbrook -- no such place.  It's in Glenview, IL.

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