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: July 29, 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
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: Rush University collaborations require institutional agreements and unit coordination (e.g. CCHE, nursing programs).
- Access URL: offices.depaul.edu/research-services/Pages/default.aspx
- Contact name: Office of Research Services
- Contact email: ors@depaul.edu
- Verification date: 2026-06-30
- Source URLs:
- www.rush.edu/news/rush-depaul-expand-collaboration
- www.rushu.rush.edu
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). - School of Nursing clinical network — Rush appears on the Nursing About sample clinical affiliate / employer list supporting CSH-022 clinical education pathways (packet
2026-07-29-nursing-ot-programs-discovery). - 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: 2026-07-29
- 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
- School of Nursing clinical affiliate / employer sample list —
sources/inbox/2026-07-29-nursing-ot-programs-discovery/source_snapshot/captured/csh-depaul-edu-academics-departments-schools-nursing-about-144dd805dc.html
Equipment
External university partner; not DePaul inventory.
Last verified: July 29, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Rush University
- Website: Rush — DePaul collaboration news
- Website: Center for Community Health Equity (Rush)
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Andrew Bean (Collaborator)
- Maria Joy Ferrera (Collaborator) — mferrera@depaul.edu
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
- UNI-012 - Center for Community Health Equity (CCHE)
- EXT-011 - Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS)
- CDM-011 - VIDA / MedIX / IMP Labs
- UNI-002 - Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC)
- CSH-022 - DePaul Simulation Lab — School of Nursing
Documented connections
Generated from publication↔resource and person↔publication registries. Superscript numbers open Sources below. Multiple sources on one claim are grouped as 1,4. Grant links are listed on publication and grant pages.
Publications
- Novel Perspective on Ensemble Clustering for Persistent Cluster Patterns: A Case Study in Disease Cluster Discovery (2025) — documented, uses · DOI1
- Outcome risk model development for heterogeneity of treatment effect analyses: a (2024) — supporting, mentions · DOI2
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Resources and Crime-Related Psychosocial Hazards, Str (2021) — supporting, mentions · DOI3
- Understanding Occupational Therapy Admissions Decisions Related to Diversity (2023) — supporting, mentions · DOI4
- The Impact of a Psychosocial-Focused Experiential Learning Activity on Occupatio (2022) — supporting, mentions · DOI5
- Occupational Therapy’s Role in Supporting Persons with Cognitive and Communicati (2025) — supporting, mentions · DOI6
- Globally Inclusive Occupational Therapy Scholarship (2025) — supporting, mentions · DOI7
- Health Literacy is a Predictor of Back Pain Sentiment in Social Media Posts (Pre (2025) — supporting, mentions · DOI8
- Ensuring Safe Sleep in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review of (2022) — supporting, mentions · DOI9
- Development of an Escape Room in a Pediatric Nursing Course (2025) — supporting, mentions · DOI10
- 318 Discovering Subgroups with Supervised Machine Learning Models for Heterogene (2024) — supporting, mentions · DOI11
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Resources and Crime-Related Psychosocial Hazards, Str (2021) — supporting, mentions · DOI12
- Heterogeneity of Treatment Effect of Aspirin and Clinically Significant Bleeding (2026) — supporting, mentions · DOI13
People on linked publications
- Daniela Raicu (author; PUB-172)1
- Jacob Furst (author; PUB-206)2
- Molly Brown (author; PUB-380)14
- Hillary Napier (author; PUB-463)15
- Molly Bathje (author; PUB-466)15
- Susan Tran (author; PUB-504)8
- Michelle Neuman (author; PUB-530)16
Sources
- multiple clustering experiments among patients from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OpenAthens PDF. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OpenAthens PDF. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- PubMed DePaul affiliation hit for Molly Brown. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
- OpenAlex match Hillary Napier. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers
- DOI listed on DePaul faculty profile. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
Notes
Leadership names omitted from ownership metadata per map policy; see partner sites for center contacts. Faculty paper PUB-172 names Rush University Medical Center as the patient-data source for ensemble clustering (OpenAlex abstract; packet 2026-08-21-faculty-openalex-oa).