Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)

Rush, with 676 beds, operates its own medical school and is currently building a $617 million, 14-story acute and critical care tower, which will bring its total bed count to 720 when it opens in 2012. In 2009, the hospital and its affiliated orthopedic surgery group opened a five-story, $75 million orthopedic building. Under a federal grant for medical tourism, Rush is working with University HealthSystem Consortium to identify strategies to attract more foreign residents to seek care in the United States. Among Rush’s many awards, the hospital’s comprehensive stroke program won the Gold Performance Achievement Award.