Kris Alden, MD, PhD

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Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare was founded in 1926 as Elmhurst Memorial Hospital. The medical facility is a comprehensive health system with multiple locations and services designed to enhance the health of the communities and customers it serves. With 427-plus licensed beds, Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare and its staff of more than 3,200 employees and 550 physicians are committed to excellence in medical and surgical care, behavioral health, cardiology, emergency care, maternity, neurosurgery, oncology, orthopedics and pediatrics. The health system has a dozen clinics, facilities and programs for its patients. Elmhurst Clinic is a multi-specialty medical group with practice locations in Elmhurst, Carol Stream and Wood Dale, Ill. Elmhurst Memorial Home Health provides a complete range of health care services in a home setting. Elmhurst Memorial Center for Health is an outpatient health care facility. ELMCARE and Elmhurst Memorial Guidance Services provide an outpatient behavioral health service to individuals, families, groups, couples children and adolescents. Elmhurst Memorial Occupational Health Care specializes in medical care for work-related illness and injury, physical exams and screenings, wellness and prevention programs and employee support. Elmhurst Memorial Health Education Center for the Community of Villa Park and Elmhurst Memorial Addison Health Center provide multi-specialty physicians and health education programs for community residents.