Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers (www.lcmh.org), based in Evergreen Park, Ill., delivers technologically advanced services through a 318-bed, acute-care hospital; a Cancer Center affiliated with the Medical Oncology Group of the University of Chicago Hospitals; the Oak Lawn Care Station and Home Health Equipment Center; various medical offices as well as unique community health education centers in Westfield Chicago Ridge Mall and at the Hospital.
For more than 76 years, Little Company of Mary has delivered compassionate care to Chicago's Southwest area. While there is always going to be a certain level of pain with any surgery or treatment, Little Company of Mary is committed to finding new ways of reducing it. From minimally invasive cancer-fighting techniques that offer a quicker recovery to a caring approach with better patient communication and convenient access, our team of experts is constantly making the experience of health care more hassle-free. And, every day, whether it is new ways of making you more comfortable or bringing the latest technology right to your neighborhood, we're always moving forward in the pursuit of pain-free health care.
Little Company of Mary's nearly 2,000 employees embody the mission of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, sponsors of the Hospital and Health Care Centers. The Sisters are an international congregation of women founded by the Venerable Mary Potter in 1877 in Nottingham, England, to provide health care services in the more than 12 countries they serve around the globe.
Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers is a not-for-profit institution, receiving no city, state or federal tax dollars.
* Licensed Beds: 318
* ED Designation: Comprehensive
* Professional Staff: 527
* Employees: Full-time - 999; Part-time - 696 (excludes temporary and registry employees)
Facilities:
* Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers, 2800 West 95th Street, Evergreen Park
* Mary Potter Pavilion, 2850 West 95th Street, Evergreen Park
* Burbank Office Center, 4901 West 79th Street, Burbank
* Oak Lawn Care Station, 5660 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn
* Little Company of Mary Diagnostic Center, 12432 South Harlem Avenue, Palos Heights
* Halsted Medical Center, 736 West 95th Street, Chicago
* Chicago Ridge Health Education Center, 9500 S. Ridgeland Avenue, Chicago Ridge
* Little Company of Mary Health Education Center, 2800 West 95th Street, Evergreen Park
* Heritage Building, 2800 West 87th Street, Chicago
* Little Company of Mary Home Based Services and Hospice, 9800 Southwest Highway, Oak Lawn
* Little Company of Mary Home Health Equipment Center, 5610 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn
* Palos Office Center, 12450 South Harlem, Palos Heights
* Southwest Hospital's MRI, 5550 West 111th Street, Oak Lawn
Historical Highlights:
1930 Little Company of Mary Hospital and School of Nursing established in Evergreen Park
1943 Nursing residence opens
1949 Five additional floors added to original Tower Building
1950 Drs. Lawler, West and Murphy perform first successful human organ transplant
1955 100-bed pediatric unit opens
1960 132 beds added in new addition that includes (now the North Pavilion) chapel, medical, surgical and psychiatric beds and administrative offices
1963 Medical Intensive Care Unit opens, the first in the nation
1964 Surgical Intensive Care opens
1966 Cardiac Intensive Care opens
1968 Mayor and Mrs. Richard J. Daley attend opening of the Education Building; The 2800 Gift Shop opens
1971 Senator Ted Kennedy attends opening of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
1972 Linear Accelerator is installed
1976 Hospice Care begins
1977 Little Company of Mary Sisters celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the congregation
1980 Little Company celebrates 50 years of service; Birthing Rooms open
1982 One Day Surgery opens
1984 South Pavilion opens, adding 100 private rooms and space for Radiology, Laboratory, Admitting and Emergency Departments; School of Nursing closes; Adult Day Center opens
1985 Care Station opens; The first Women's Wellness Weekend is held
1986 Little Company of Mary becomes affiliated with Southwest Hospital MRI Center
1987 Home Health Equipment Center opens; Sleep Disorder Center opens; Physician Match begins; Cardiac Catheterization Lab opens providing new diagnostic capabilities, and a Home Health Equipment Center opens
1988 Cancer Center is dedicated; New Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers name takes effect
1990 Little Company of Mary celebrates 60 years of service
1991 Chemical dependency unit opens and is dedicated to James West, M.D., who also was instrumental in creating the Betty Ford Center
1993 Mary Potter Physicians Pavilion opens
1996 Chicago Ridge Health Education Center, Breast Health Center, and the Osteoporosis Center open
1998 Evergreen Plaza Health Education Center, One-Day Surgery and The Monsignor O'Brycki Physical Therapy Center open
1999 Little Company of Mary Hospital is the site for Chicago area's first spinal laminectomy equipment; Original stained glass windows from Sisters' first convent on 41st Street and Indiana relocated to Hospital Heritage area; Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Therapy is dedicated; The Cancer Center begins treating patients on an outpatient basis and becomes affiliated with the Medical Oncology Group of the University of the Chicago Hospitals
2000 The new Cancer Center opens; Cardiovascular Program enters C-PORT Trial with Johns Hopkins University
2001 The Adult Day Center receives a new permanent home in the Heritage Building; The Bariatric Surgery Center opens, the first bariatric surgery is performed in the Southwest suburbs; Little Company of Mary Diagnostic Center opens in Palos Heights; Evergreen Plaza Health Education Center relocates to the Hospital
2002 The LCM Sisters celebrate 125 of providing health care around the world
2003 The Diabetes Center is dedicated
2004 The Auburn Gresham facility, now Halsted Medical Center, is dedicated; The Emergency Department was renovated and blessed; Little Company of Mary celebrates the birth of its 200,000th baby, more than any other hospital in the Southwest suburbs
2005 Little Company of Mary celebrates 75 years of service; Little Company of Mary offers the community a 40-slice CT scanner; Little Company of Mary serves as Grand Marshal of the South Side Irish Parade
2006 Bariatric Surgery Center named a Center of Excellence by the American Society of Bariatric Surgery; Endoscopy Center is dedicated; Little Company of Mary begins performing prostate cancer surgeries using the da Vinci Robot; Little Company of Mary opens its Comprehensive Breast Health Center
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