Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, affiliated with University of Chicago Medical Center, is an urban hospital located in Uptown, Chicago

Uptown, Chicago

Uptown is one of Chicago’s 77 community areas. Uptown has well defined boundaries. They are: Foster on the north; Lake Michigan on the east; Montrose , and Irving Park on the south; Ravenswood , and Clark on the west. Uptown borders three community areas and Lake Michigan...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

. This is a 369-bed hospital, located on the site where there used to be Clarendon Beach, a famous beach of the city. Weiss Memorial Hospital is a joint venture of Vanguard Health Systems

Vanguard Health Systems

Vanguard Health Systems is an operator of hospitals and other medical facilities in five U.S. states: Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Texas. The company's headquarters are located in Nashville, Tennessee...

 (80%) and the University of Chicago Medical Center (20%).

The hospital hosts a residency program on Internal Medicine with approximately 50 medical residents, including categorical, transitional and preliminary residents. The current Program Director is Shehzad Ali, M.D.