Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) is a 489-bed acute care hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1959, the hospital serves 200,000 outpatients and 20,000 inpatients annually. The hospital operates a Level 2 Trauma Center, Level III NICU, a pediatric emergency department and a Primary Stroke Center. NCH has four Immediate Care locations in the northwest suburbs and operates a walk-in clinic in Palatine. NCH has a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians, which includes the board-certified primary care doctors and specialists of the NCH Medical Group.[citation needed] From Wikipedia