Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a 551-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in Chicago.

[9][10][11] Originally a two-and-one-half story frame building which was rented for $50 a month, it contained 30 beds, 10 used by nurses, house physicians and staff, and 20 by patients, 5 of whom could afford to pay for their hospitalization.

[11] In November 2000, Illinois Masonic Medical Center became a hospital member of Advocate Health Care.

In 2002, the hospital suffered losses of $18 million due to reductions in federal and state government payments to providers of medical care.

The new building, attached to the main hospital, allowed Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center to expand and centralize three medical specialties—cancer care, digestive health and outpatient surgery services—in a single, integrated platform.

[14] Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center operates a number of residency training and fellowship programs for newly graduated physicians.