Recent News

• January 12, 2012Chicago Magazine’s “Top Docs” Includes 10 RIC Physicians - News Release (January 12, 2012)
• November 3, 2011RIC NEWS | RIC Announces Alliance with Michigan Rehabilitation Hospital - Nov 3, 2011
• October 24, 2011RIC's Bionic Medicine Innovations Educate World Through First-Ever Conference and TED TALK Pioneering work in bionic medicine at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the nation's #1 ranked rehabilitation provider[i], reached around the world this October through the world's first conference on Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR), the procedure that supports bionic limb technology, and a TED TALK by Todd Kuiken, M.D., Ph.D., who presented his work at TED GLOBAL, the renowned high-profile forum that explores ideas from today's visionaries that reaches a global audience through TED.com.
• October 3, 2011Nation's #1 Rehabilitation Care Coming to Saint Anthony Hospitals in Crown Point and Michigan City The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the nation’s #1 rehabilitation hospital*, and Franciscan Alliance today announce an expanded alliance partnership that will bring RIC’s world-class rehabilitation medicine to Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point and Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City.
• October 3, 2011RIC's Smartphone Technology Named On of Chicago's "Biggest Ideas" RIC’s researchers and physicians were among those featured in Time Out Chicago’s “Chicago’s Biggest Ideas issue” for their collaboration on a new research trial that uses smartphone technology to track and measure the movements of people with Parkinson’s Disease.
• August 15, 2011RIC Ranked #1 Rehabilitation Hospital The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) has been ranked the #1 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation hospital in U.S. News & World Report’s 2011-12 Best Hospitals rankings, available online at www.usnews.com/besthospitals. RIC has been ranked #1 longer than any other specialty hospital in the nation. RIC’s quality clinical care and innovative research advance patient ability and set standards for care throughout the world.
• August 1, 2011RIC Physicians Rank Among Top Doctors on U.S. News Media Group's List The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) announced today that with 22 of its physicians were included among U.S. News & World Report’s Top Doctors, a peer-nominated list, RIC has more physiatrists on the list that any other rehabilitation hospital in the country.
• July 7, 2011U.S. Navy Medicine Visits RIC Navy Medicine visited RIC and saw how we are Advancing Ability for wounded warriors. Lance Corporal Ed McDonough visited during Chicago Navy Week June 29.
• June 29, 2011RIC Selects Architects HDR/Gensler to Design RIC's New Research Hospital The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the nation’s #1 rehabilitation hospital[i], has selected architecture firms HDR and Gensler in a joint partnership to design its new Research Hospital located at 630 N. McClurg Court. The new RIC Research Hospital will infuse 21st Century biomedical science into the clinical environment to help patients achieve the best recovery.
• May 10, 2011Nation's Second Participant Enrolls in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial CHICAGO (May 10,2010) -Researchers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) recently enrolled their first subject in a national clinical research trial of a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for participants with a subacute thoracic spinal cord injury. This is only the second enrollment nationwide in the study sponsored by Geron Corp. (Nasdaq: GERN). Northwestern is the lead site of the trial, which will eventually include up to six other sites and enroll up to 10 subjects nationally.