No Missed Opportunities: NOMO Optimizing inpatient HIV and HCV testing

Northwestern Medicine is the shared strategic vision of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Each day, 26,500 clinical and administrative staff, medical and science faculty and medical students come together with a shared commitment towards superior quality, academic excellence, scientific discovery and patient safety. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has a national reputation for excellence and long history of collaborative, interdisciplinary medical education and research. In 2015, it was ranked 19th among the nation’s top research-intensive schools of medicine by U.S. News & World Report, and 18th in National Institutes of Health funding. More than 3,400 faculty members teach, practice medicine, conduct research at the medical school. In 2014, the health system served more than 600,000 patients at its nearly 70 diagnostic and ambulatory sites across Chicago including six hospitals. This application will focus activities at the flagship teaching hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. However future activities could be scaled to the other five hospitals across the Chicago region. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is an 894-bed academic medical center hospital that is the primary teaching affiliate for the Feinberg School of Medicine and has nearly 1,900 affiliated physicians representing virtually every medical specialty. The hospital is ranked No. 1 in Chicago and Illinois, as well as 11th in the nation according to the U.S. News & World Report 2015-2016 Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals, which ranks the hospital in 13 out of 16 clinical specialties.