About Us

Mission

Guest House builds community and healing by providing comfortable, affordable accommodation for patients and their families throughout their treatment.

Vision

Patients and families seeking treatment away from home can access caring, comfortable, and affordable accommodation.

2025

An additional apartment was added in July, increasing our total number to 54 and our service capacity by 15%.

2024

Guest House welcomes a new Hospital Partner, Northwestern Medicine, and expands Road Home’s support.

We are now at 53 apartments.

My Northwestern Medicine for December 9, 2015

2019

Guest House welcomes a new Hospital Partner, The University of Chicago Medicine. We also welcomed Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network as a partner supporting transplant patients receiving treatment at any Chicago area hospital.

 

2018

Guest House expands to a capacity of 47 fully-furnished apartments.

2016

Guest House launches a partnership with the Road Home Program at Rush, to help veterans experiencing PTSD. Click the video to hear veteran Nick Morrison share his story.

2013

The Community Room opens and the Volunteer Program takes off. Click play on these short videos to see volunteers tell their stories about supporting Guest House.

2011

Guest House moves to our current location on the campus of University of Illinois Chicago, starting with 10 apartments. Through a partnership with American Cancer Society, services are now offered to cancer patients receiving treatment at any Chicago area hospital.

2005

Guest House opens. Click here to hear from Cleanthous family, our first guests.

1999

Guest House Founded. Click play to hear Jane Reich, Founder and Emeritus Member of the Guest House Board of Directors, briefly talk about its mission.

What We Do

Guest House provides comfortable, affordable, temporary lodging for patients and their families who must travel to Chicago for medical treatment, and to military veterans receiving treatment at the Road Home Program at Rush.

We are the only organization in the Chicago area that supports patients of any age, receiving any type of treatment. We offer 34 fully furnished apartments for medical patients, and 20 full furnished apartments for Rush Road Home Participants. Most units are one-bedrooms with limited two-and-three-bedroom units. All units have a separate living room, kitchen, private bathroom, wi-fi, and cable streaming tv in the living room.

Guest House provides the comforts of home, and much more.  We offer the care of community, reducing the feelings of isolation that many families experience during a medical crisis.

How We Work

Guest House works primarily with patients referred through our hospital and program partners, to provide the comforts of home during treatment, helping to relieve stress that families feel when travelling to an unfamiliar city for treatment.

Our base rates are: $72/night for a one-bedroom unit, $100 for a two-bedroom unit, and $150 for a three-bedroom unit. Financial assistance allows our team to reduce the base rate to fit an individual’s budget, therefore no family is turned away for an inability to afford our base rate. Rates offered at Guest House are at least half the cost of the nearest hotel.

Length of stay is determined by medical need, with no minimum stay requirement. In rare instances of extreme medical need, stays can extend up to one year.

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