[2] It performs more cardiac procedures than any other hospital in Kane, McHenry, DuPage, Lake and Will counties.

Advocate Sherman is considered to be above average,[3] and is ranked in the top 100 hospitals in the United States, out of a group of around 3,100.

[8][9] Scenes from the 2011 movie Contagion were shot in the old Sherman Hospital[10] On March 30, 2020, Illinois Governor J.

B. Pritzker announced that the partially demolished old Sherman Hospital would be converted into an overflow center for COVID-19 patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Private contractors and the US Army Corps of Engineers began work converting the abandoned building into a 230-280 bed facility equipped to handle a surge in hospitalizations caused by the virus.