Mercy Hospital and Medical Center is a Catholic teaching hospital in Chicago

Chicago

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. Established in 1852, The hospital was the first chartered hospital in Chicago. In 1859, Mercy Hospital became the first Catholic hospital to affiliate with a medical school — Lind Medical School — and the first to require a graded curriculum. Today, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center is part of a nationwide network of Mercy Healthcare facilities.Mercy is the premier heart hospital in Chicago and is a Level 2 Trauma Center. Mercy also is the hospital used by the Daley family, all of their children were born there. Mercy sold a plot of land to the north of their hospital for 60 million dollars in 2008. It is also the main women's cancer center in Illinois. It accepted patients from Michael Reese Hospital

Michael Reese Hospital

Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center was an American hospital founded in 1881. In its heyday, it was a major research and teaching hospital and one of the oldest and largest hospitals in Chicago, Illinois. It was located on the near south side of Chicago, next to Lake Shore Drive Michael...

 and Medical Center and absorbed the ambulance routes when the hospital closed in 2008. Mercy follows Catholic

Catholic

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 teaching but does give birth control

Birth control

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 to rape patients.

Mercy received a $66,000,000 loan from HUD

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

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 for a new cardiac Unit in 2011.