NorthShore University HealthSystem

Big step forward in the investigation into a Chicago funeral home months after bodies were found decomposing.

Healthcare merger, with Endeavor Health and Rush partnering.

We take a look at how it will affect the patients.

We had a beautiful, beautiful friendship with him.

55 decomposing bodies were discovered there back in August.

Tonight the medical examiner says their families have all been notified and the city's taking the owners of South Chicago Chapel to court for alleged building code violations.

Rush and Endeavor Health announcing plans to merge hospital systems.

The two systems would have a combined 46,000 employees and clinicians, 12 hospitals, and more than 400 care sites.

We're working to learn where these registers were taken from.

R- Rush University System and Health, uh, and Endeavor Health are merging.

The two systems coming together to form a, quote, "integrated academic health system with more than 46,000 employees and clinicians, 12 hospitals, and more than 400 care sites." The combined system would be one of the largest in the Midwest, serving more than two million patients annually across northern Illinois and northwest Indiana.

All right.

Hi, I'm glad to be back.

So I'm currently, I just finished my one year of working with Endeavor Health over here in the northwest suburbs.

Fantastic.

And Fiona, where are you working at nowadays?

So it used to be North Shore Hospital-

Mm

... and so then we combined with everyone to make Endeavor Health.

There's inpatient rehabs that were with other hospitals that are now a part of Endeavor Health.

We asked Dr. Shani Francis to help untangle these questions.

She's a dermatologist and the director of the Hair Center of Excellence, awesome title by the way, at North Shore University Health System in Evanston, Illinois.

Hair is basically protein, but it has a very complex structure in how the protein is arranged.

It's very organized.

Um, along that journey, we closed roughly 350,000 of, of various safes in, in a rolling pre-seed, more or less, taking on some strategic investors that include groups like mHUB, as well as some individual angels that have supported us along the way, including some trauma surgeons in that grouping.

We also completed 15 different preclinical models, and so it came a long way from that first one that we did in the basement of a VA hospital to partnering with Endeavor Health in Evanston, Illinois, to do some really sophisticated, both injury-first plus percutaneous access and safety models, which has been, uh, fuel for the innovation of this product.

Seeing the functionality of it live, seeing the aggressiveness of an aortic bleed versus the quickness to what we can do to solve it.

I think in our last video, which is now part of our pitch deck, Milad gains access and control over a two-centimeter aorta cut in seven seconds.

Um, in our current round, it, it's...

I'm sometimes in awe and, and continuously humbled by the, the syndicate that we've put together.

We've got a healthcare, uh, investor in there with Endeavor Health.

We've got multiple venture teams, including yourself, Octera Capital, which is a brilliant international VC, Elderberry Ventures, which is a local group specific and, and, and companies that want to better the, the human equation when it comes to outcomes.

So ahead of Chicago's Walk to End Alzheimer's this weekend, let's learn more about the doctor's theories.

At the table with me was Dr. Gita Maker Clark, Director of Integrative Nutrition and Advocacy at Endeavor Health, and author of the new book Medicine for All People: Science and Ancient Wisdom for Revolutionary Healing.

I started by asking Dr.

Maker Clark why we should all focus on our cognitive health, and why now.

... feel like we belong.

That's great advice.

Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark is of Endeavor Health.

She's also author of the new book Medicine for All People: Science and Ancient Wisdom for Revolutionary Healing.

What's the name of the, the-

Now it's Endeavor, like Endeavor Health.

Endeavor.

Or Nor- Northwestern.

Yeah.

Yeah, Endeavor Health up north.

Um, I've been to that area.

And, uh, I mean, it's kind of an elite, elite region, but similar to Los Angeles, we have our elite regions, and we have our underserved regions.