Edward-Elmhurst Health joins Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance

The Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance (CCHA) announced today that Edward-Elmhurst Health (EEH) has joined its pediatric healthcare enterprise. As a result, all of the pediatric services of NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Health are now part of CCHA. Its participation means EEH will expand its own pediatric subspecialty care, as well as provide families in the western suburbs ease of access to a comprehensive array of services across the wider CCHA network. CCHA is a collaborative between Advocate Children’s Hospital, NorthShore University HealthSystem and University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital.

“Edward-Elmhurst Health is proud to partner with the leading healthcare organizations across the Alliance and provide children and families in our service area with access to unrivaled pediatric care close to home,” said Joseph Dant, President, South Region, NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Health.

CCHA represents one of Illinois’ largest and most integrated networks of pediatric primary and specialty care. Well-established pediatric primary care practices in diverse and convenient locations across Chicagoland and Indiana enhance referrals to a deep bench of specialty and complex care.

“When CCHA was formed three years ago, our goal was to collaborate, strategize and innovate for the benefit of our patients,” said Mike Farrell, President, Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance. “This new alliance expands CCHA’s overall geographic reach and now ensures children, teens and families in the Naperville and Elmhurst communities have seamless access to our comprehensive specialty network and most advanced research and treatments.”

With the addition of Edward-Elmhurst Health, CCHA and its members, in total, have:

• the ability to provide care to 1.8 million children in the Chicago area,
• multiple hospital campuses with more than 800 pediatric inpatient beds, more than 1,100 employed primary care/subspecialists/maternal fetal medicine physicians and more than 110 locations to access care,
• eight Level III NICUs, one pediatric cardiac ICU, four pediatric ICUs and four pediatric emergency departments,
• pediatric transport for patients transferred to CCHA-affiliated hospital campuses for subspecialty care, and
• the addition of adolescent programming through Linden Oaks Behavioral Health.

Benefits of the Alliance include EEH’s ability to enhance pediatric subspecialties and provide ease of access to others across the CCHA network, including allergy and immunology, anesthesiology, cardiology, critical care, dentistry, dermatology, emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology, genetics, hematology-oncology, infectious disease, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology and retina, orthopedics, otolaryngology (ear/nose/throat), surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, plastic surgery, pulmonology, rheumatology, sleep medicine, sports medicine and urology.

From its inception, the goal of CCHA has been to provide outstanding pediatric care, close to home, for patients and families across Chicagoland and the region. The network provides ease of access across a vast continuum of pediatric services, from primary care to the most complex treatment and research.