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Michael Reese Hospital is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 hospital
Hospital

A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
 founded in 1881; it is one of the oldest hospitals in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. It was scheduled to close in 2008, although this has been delayed.

Louis Katz, the Medical Research Institute's first full-time investigator and former president
President

President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
 of the American Heart Association
American Heart Association

The American Heart Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate Heart care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke....
, was one of the first to explore the relation of coronary heart disease
Coronary heart disease

Coronary artery disease is the end result of the accumulation of atheroma within the walls of the Coronary circulation that supply the myocardium with oxygen and nutrients....
 to cholesterol
Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a lipidic, waxy alcohol found in the cell membranes and transported in the blood plasma of all animals. It is an essential component of mammalian cell membranes where it is required to establish proper membrane permeability and membrane fluidity....
 concentration in the blood
Blood

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's Cell s ? such as nutrients and oxygen ? and transports waste products away from those same cells....
. Cardiovascular Institute researchers Dr. Alfred Pick and Dr. Richard Langendorf, perfected the use of the electrocardiograph.

Leonidas Berry
Leonidas Berry

Leonidas Harris Berry was an American and pioneer in gastroscopy and endoscopy. He served as the president of the National Medical Association from 1965 to 1966....
 was a pioneer in the development and use of the gastroscope.






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Michael Reese Hospital is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 hospital
Hospital

A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
 founded in 1881; it is one of the oldest hospitals in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. It was scheduled to close in 2008, although this has been delayed.

Louis Katz, the Medical Research Institute's first full-time investigator and former president
President

President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
 of the American Heart Association
American Heart Association

The American Heart Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate Heart care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke....
, was one of the first to explore the relation of coronary heart disease
Coronary heart disease

Coronary artery disease is the end result of the accumulation of atheroma within the walls of the Coronary circulation that supply the myocardium with oxygen and nutrients....
 to cholesterol
Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a lipidic, waxy alcohol found in the cell membranes and transported in the blood plasma of all animals. It is an essential component of mammalian cell membranes where it is required to establish proper membrane permeability and membrane fluidity....
 concentration in the blood
Blood

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's Cell s ? such as nutrients and oxygen ? and transports waste products away from those same cells....
. Cardiovascular Institute researchers Dr. Alfred Pick and Dr. Richard Langendorf, perfected the use of the electrocardiograph.

Leonidas Berry
Leonidas Berry

Leonidas Harris Berry was an American and pioneer in gastroscopy and endoscopy. He served as the president of the National Medical Association from 1965 to 1966....
 was a pioneer in the development and use of the gastroscope. Dr. Samuel Soskin and Dr. Rachmiel Levine made important discoveries about the "gatekeeper" action in insulin
Insulin

Insulin is a hormone with extensive effects on both metabolism and several other body systems . Insulin causes most of the body's cells to take up glucose from the blood , storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle, and stops use of fat as an energy source....
, which is of fundamental importance to the understanding of diabetes. Dr. Albert Milzer and his research team were the first to kill the polio virus
Virus

A virus is a Optical microscope#Limitations of light microscopes infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell . Viruses infect all cellular life....
 and make an effective vaccine
Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that establishes or improves immunity to a particular disease.Vaccines can be prophylaxis , or Medication ....
 against this debilitating virus.

The Internal Medicine Residency program currently consists of 66 residents and interns. The hospital announced in early 2008 that the training programs will close at the end of the 2007-2008 academic year. The hospital has recently faced financial challenges. On June 5, 2008, WLS-TV
WLS-TV

WLS-TV, channel 7, is a television station in Chicago, Illinois. The station is owned and operated station by Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company....
 reported that the hospital filed with the State of Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
 a letter of intent to close by the end of 2008.

Possible use for 2016 Olympics
Chicago 2016 Olympic bid

The Chicago 2016 Olympic bid is the attempt by the city of Chicago and the United States- with the support of other cities, civil township and village in the U.S....

The Chicago 2016 Olympic organizing committee is (as of mid-2008) advocating a plan to construct the Olympic Village on the Michael Reese site as a reuse project, should Chicago be awarded the Games. Under the plan, the city of Chicago would borrow $85 million to buy the Michael Reese Hospital campus, near 31st and King Drive, from its current owner, Medline Industries. Medline will only get $65 million, because the company agreed to make a $20 million “charitable contribution” back to the city. The city will use that $20 million to pay up to five years of interest on its $85 million debt, demolish the hospital, and clean up the site. Then sometime in the next couple years it will sell the site for at least $85 million to a developer or developers, who in turn will build a complex big enough to house about 15,000 Olympians. After the games the developer will sell or rent out the units.

This plan later came into question, as soaring demolition and environmental cleanup costs, as well as a recalcitrant property owner may force the hospital site to be abandoned. The bid committee will need to resolve the problem by February 2009, the date which bid books are due.

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