
On May 1, 1999, Northwestern Memorial opened a new, 2-million square foot hospital. The medical center includes the 17-story Feinberg Inpatient Pavilion and the 22-story Galter Outpatient Pavilion, which share an eight-floor base containing public areas and diagnostic and therapeutic services. The Feinberg Inpatient Pavilion houses 492 inpatient private rooms, including 92 private intensive care rooms. The rooms were designed with a family orientation and feature specially designed window seats that convert into pullout beds, views from every room (including the intensive care units), and tasteful artwork demonstrated to promote the healing process. Just as the hospital provides separate areas for patients and families and for staff, the patient rooms are "zoned," with chairs, bookshelves and a window on one side of the bed, and space for medical staff and equipment on the other side. The Galter Pavilion houses clinical and office space for up to 600 NMFF and private physicians. It provides patients with easy access to outpatient services and physicians' offices, while eliminating the need for costly duplication of services. The new facility houses a major conference center, including an auditorium, banquet hall and high-tech learning laboratories, enabling NMH to lead and host important national conferences. In addition, a comprehensive Health Learning Center was developed for patients, visitors and the community. The center provides access to a wide range of health resources, including books, databases and Internet access. The design of the new hospital also includes a museum that exhibits the history of medicine and of Northwestern Memorial. For more information about Northwestern Memorial Hospital, please visit their website.

The Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center of Northwestern University was opened in 2005. The Lurie Medical Research Center includes space for research laboratories and offices in the fields of genetics and molecular medicine, cancer, neurosciences, bioengineering and advanced medicine. It is located on the southeast corner of Superior Street and Fairbanks Court on Northwestern's Chicago campus. The 12-story building has more than 200,000 net square feet of research space. The Lurie Medical Research Center includes nine floors of laboratories, with additional floors for support functions and a ground floor that includes a dining facility, two auditoriums and three classrooms. |