St. James Hospital Chicago Heights

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Hospital Information

• St. James Hospital and Health Centers has evolved from a 50 bed acute care hospital in 1911 to a two campus healthcare delivery system that today reaches more than 55,000 in the far south suburbs of Chicago.
• Campuses in Chicago Heights and Olympia Fields.
• Major Service Lines at Chicago Heights Campus: Cardiology, Women’s Services, Pediatrics, Behavioral Health Orthopedics, Emergency Services, Pain Management, Center for Diabetes, Home Care Services
• Committed to supporting the medical education programs of the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Midwestern University
• More that 700 physicians serve on the medical staff, offering patients a unique blend of osteopathic and allopathic medicine

Emergency Department

• Efficient and very well run community hospital ED
• Approximately 29% of emergency patients are admitted
• Excellent nursing staff
• Located in a stable blue collar suburban community

Emergency Department Schedule

36 hrs of physician coverage daily, 20 hours MLP coverage, 12 hours of resident coverage. 8 and 10 hr shifts

Chicago Heights, Illinois Community

• The Chicago Southland region is both urban and rural, blue and white collar, affluent and middle class, and truly epitomizes what is meant by the "land of opportunity."
• The children of Chicago Heights are well served by a public school system supplemented by a Catholic high school and five Catholic elementary schools. Most area teens attend either Bloom or Bloom Trail high schools in district 206. The district's high schools offer college preparatory programs, and Bloom also has vocational training and work-study programs.
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