Northwestern University ends affiliation with ENH

Northwestern University is terminating its academic affiliation with Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, which is in talks with the University of Chicago about a possible academic affiliation.

The coming change in the relationship shakes up the landscape among some of the Chicago area's most prestigious names in medical care and could change the brands tens of thousands of area consumers have come to know in their hospitals.

Following a one-year transition period, "most Northwestern [University medical] students and residents will be phased out of rotations at the hospitals owned by Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and ... most physicians and researchers at those hospitals would no longer be on the faculty of Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine," Northwestern University said in a statement Monday afternoon. "The termination of the agreement stems from different visions by Northwestern and ENH regarding future directions for the respective institutions."

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