Oak Brook-based Advocate Health Care, the largest health care provider in Illinois, has ranked among the nation’s top 10 health care systems for six consecutive years. A faith-based, non-profit system, Advocate is related to both the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ. Advocate’s 200+ sites of care in metropolitan Chicago include eight acute care hospitals and two children’s hospitals, a home health care company and three of Chicago’s largest medical groups.

With more than 24,900 employees, Advocate is the second largest private employer in Chicago and the only health care provider listed among the 25 best places to work in Chicago. Through a long-term academic and teaching affiliation with the University of Illinois at Chicago Health Sciences Center, Advocate trains more resident physicians than any non-university teaching hospital in Illinois.