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Rush University (EXT-010)

Summary 🟡 ~

  • Owner Unit: External partner organization
  • Sub-unit: Rush University / Rush University System for Health
  • Content Type: partnership
  • Campus/Location: Off-campus (Chicago)
  • Last Verified: May 30, 2026

Organization

Rush University is a health-sciences university within the Rush University System for Health, with medical, nursing, and health-sciences programs and research collaborations across Chicago. Rush operates clinical and research programs including centers referenced in DePaul partnership materials (for example autism assessment and treatment services).

Access status

Relationship to DePaul

DePaul and Rush maintain a formal institutional collaboration spanning education, research, and community health equity. Rush co-founded the Center for Community Health Equity (CCHE) with DePaul in 2015 and signed a memorandum of understanding in 2021 to expand joint seminars, courses, academic programs, research, internships, and practicums across complementary health-science, liberal-arts, humanities, and data-science strengths.

Known collaborations & connections

  • Center for Community Health Equity (CCHE) — co-founded 2015; housed at DePaul LAS with cross-institutional faculty engagement (healthequitychicago.org).
  • 2021 MOU — expanded collaboration in science, education, and technology (Rush news).
  • Co-taught courses — for example Medical Entrepreneurship (NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities).
  • Summer fellowship — DePaul students in 10-week Rush Autism Assessment, Research, Treatment and Services Center fellowship (NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities).
  • Collaboratory activities — MPH practicum with Rush University Department of Preventive Medicine; AARTS Center referenced in partner network (packet 2026-06-14-collaboratory-ingestion).
  • Connected DePaul units: UNI-012, CDM-011, UNI-002 (entrepreneurship courses), UNI-004.

Collaborative documents

Document type Scope Parties Status Source
Memorandum of understanding Seminars, courses, programs, research, internships, practicums DePaul ↔ Rush University Signed 2021; publicly reported Rush — expand collaboration; NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities
CCHE founding partnership Joint center for health equity research and community work DePaul ↔ Rush Active since 2015 DePaul CCHE; Rush CCHE
MOU full text Legal agreement document DePaul ↔ Rush Not publicly posted Map verification (May 2026)

Verification

  • Status: likely (~)
  • Confidence: 86/100
  • Rationale: Major external partner maintains active public website and standard user/membership access pathways; DePaul relationship documented on map.
  • Last verified: 2026-05-30
  • Evidence:
  • Partner primary website reachable (May 2026)
  • DePaul cross-references and partnership notes in resource map (May 2026)
  • Rush–DePaul collaboration news and CCHE pages active

Equipment

External university partner; not DePaul inventory.

Last verified: May 28, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

Source URL

Official links are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Primary academic–clinical partner for CCHE and expanded 2021 MOU scope; related to RFUMS (EXT-011) in biomedical training ecosystem.

Linked Relationship IDs

Notes

Leadership names omitted from ownership metadata per map policy; see partner sites for center contacts.