Michael Reese Hospital

Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center
2008 photograph of Michael Reese Hospital underpass entrance view from 29th Street.
Geography
Location	2929 S. Ellis Avenue Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois, 60616, United States
Coordinates	41°50′29″N 87°36′49″W / 41.84138°N 87.61356°W / 41.84138; -87.61356
Organization
Funding	Private hospital, for-profit hospital
Type	Community Teaching
Services
Beds	1,008 (1991)[1]
History
Opened	1881
Closed	August 31, 2009
Demolished	October 2009–2013
Links
Lists	Hospitals in the United States

Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center was an American hospital located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1881, Michael Reese Hospital was a major research and teaching hospital and one of the oldest and largest hospitals in Chicago, Illinois. It was located at 2929 S. Ellis Avenue on the near south side of Chicago, next to Lake Shore Drive (U.S. Route 41) which lies along Lake Michigan. The hospital closed its Internal Medicine Residency at the end of the 2007–2008 academic year and finished transferring patients to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center before the end of 2008. The 48-acre campus was then vacated by January 2009. From 2007 to its closing, Michael Reese had been owned by Envision Hospital Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona. The hospital officially closed August 31, 2009. At one time, the hospital had a large health plan which included 300,000 patients; at the time of the hospital's closure the health plan was terminated and it only had 2,900 clients. The streets through the campus were closed and demolition began in October 2009.^[2][3]