Edward Hospital & Health Services history

In 1920, a fire destroyed the Sanitorium's main building.

Elmhurst Hospital was founded in 1926.

On October 1, 1955, <strong>Edward</strong> Sanitorium officially reopened its doors as <strong>Edward</strong> <strong>Hospital</strong>, an acute care facility with 45 beds.

Eugene Morris, president of the hospital since 1959, retired.

In 1962, the hospital exp<strong>and</strong>ed to 110 beds with state-of-the-art all-electric beds, a nurse call communication system <strong>and</strong> piped-in oxygen.

Just five years later, in 1967, Edward grew to 133 beds with a $620,000 addition to the main building.

In 1984, Edward became a private, non-profit organization.

In 1988, the arrival of Pamela Meyer (now Pam Davis) as president and chief executive officer marked the beginning of an era of dramatic and continuous growth and innovation at Edward Hospital.

In 1990, Edward introduced a comprehensive cardiac medicine program, offering open heart surgery, diagnostic services and cardiac rehabilitation.

In addition, in 1992, <strong>Edward</strong> became the first hospital in Illinois to offer all private patient rooms, one of many innovations in patient care <strong>and</strong> customer service for which <strong>Edward</strong> has become known.

The first major move under Davis was the opening of Edward Health & Fitness Center on the Naperville campus, the first medically based fitness center in DuPage County, Illinois. (A second Edward Health & Fitness Center, in Woodridge, opened in 1997.)

Modern Healthcare magazine recognized the spectacular growth in 1998 by naming Edward as the 34th fastest-growing hospital in the United States and fastest-growing in Illinois.

In 1999, Edward reaffirmed those rankings with a "Growth Zone" announcement for its 50-acre (20 ha) Naperville campus-a $90 million renovation and expansion project to ensure high quality healthcare for a fast-growing community.

Since 2000, the pace and scope of expansion has increased.

In 2002, the 71-bed Edward Heart Hospital opened (the first of its kind in Illinois) and reinforced Edward as a national leader in complex cardiac care.

Additionally, in 2004, it expanded its emergency department by another 56,000-square-foot (5,200 m) to allow for annual growth in the number of emergency visits and more private and efficient triage and treatment areas for patients.

In 2005 the Edward Cancer Center opened.

Edward closed 2007 by completing a $49.7 million, three-floor, 76,000-square-foot (7,100 m), 42-bed addition to the Edward Heart Hospital building.

In 2008, Edward's growth in the southwest suburbs continued with the openings of the Plainfield Surgery Center on the Edward Plainfield campus and Edward Healthcare Center in Oswego.

In 2011, the hospital was rebuilt from the ground up as a new, 866,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art acute care hospital with 259 private patient rooms, offering high-quality integrated healthcare, including:

In July 2013, Edward Hospital merged with Elmhurst Memorial Hospital to create a new healthcare system currently called Edward-Elmhurst Health.

As of 2014, Midwest Endoscopy Center is owned by the physicians and Edward Health Ventures, a subsidiary of Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare.

As of 2016, Edward Hospital has 354 private patient rooms and 7,700 employees, including 1,340 nurses and a medical staff of more than 1,900 physicians, representing nearly 100 medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties.

In 2018, Edward-Elmhurst Health announced that it had overestimated its revenues by $92 million over several years.

In September 2021, Edward-Elmhurst and NorthShore University HealthSystem announced plans to merge and create a system with 9 hospitals.