In 2004, we launched a major campaign to reinvent the Medical Center and transform the landscape of medicine — in Chicago and beyond. We envisioned an academic medical center on Chicago’s West Side in which the facilities and technology would match the extraordinary skill of the medical and nursing staff. We designed the Campaign for Rush University Medical Center around a $300 million goal with clearly defined fundraising needs in research, student aid, clinical and community programs, and facilities.

Now with some of the nation’s most sophisticated health care facilities, Rush’s campus has certainly been transformed physically. But this transformation goes much deeper; it amounts to a major transformation in the way we deliver care, in the patient and family experience, and in our ability to serve our community as a resource and partner.