Community Benefits Report
At Rush University Medical Center, providing the best possible care for patients isn't just our job: It's our mission. And it's at the heart of everything we do.
Since our founding in 1837, we have dedicated ourselves to serving—and to transforming the lives of—the people in our West Side neighborhood, in Chicago and beyond.
A key component of Rush's "patients first" mission is meeting the health care needs of all patients, regardless of their ability to pay. We treat every patient as we would treat members of our own families—with compassion, understanding and respect for their unique needs.
So it's not surprising that the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), an alliance of approximately 100 academic medical centers, has awarded Rush the highest possible score—100 percent—for "equity of care" three consecutive times during the annual quality and safety benchmarking studies it conducts of its member institutions. This ranking measures whether patients receive the same quality of treatment and have the same outcomes regardless of their gender, race or socioeconomic status. This is just one of the reasons UHC has also rated Rush among the top tier of its member institutions' "top-performing hospitals" three years running.
Consistent with our commitment to charitable purposes and to strengthening the community, Rush University Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital provided more than $172 million in community benefits in fiscal year 2008 to the West Side and to the Chicago area. Part of that amount was $113 million in unreimbursed, but much needed, care that Rush provided to its patients.
For more information, click on the link below to download a PDF of the full community benefits report.
