[5] MMC is accredited by The Joint Commission and is recognized as a Magnet hospital.

[7][8] In the year 2015, Memorial Medical Center had 24,469 admissions, 65,821 emergency department visits, and 19,973 surgical procedures.

UIC College of Nursing, Benedictine University, Lincoln Land Community College, and other educational institutions teach nursing education programs at the hospital.

A new building was erected in 1943 at its current campus location at First and Miller Streets with a patient capacity of 270.

The procedure lasted for five hours and the patient previously had a heart valve replaced just under nine months earlier.