Community Services / Partners
Rush-Copley is proud to collaborate with several campus partners and many community organizations, including local government, local business/industry, community agencies, colleges and universities and other providers.
Waterford Children's Academy
The campus features a day care center managed by Children's Creative Learning Centers. The academy welcomes children of all ages in half-day as well as full-day programs. Enrollment in Waterford Children's Academy is open to the public.
One of the largest hospital-based fitness centers in the nation, the Rush-Copley Healthplex Fitness Center is open to the community. The state-of-the-art fitness facility features an extensive cardiovascular conditioning area, children's fitness area and classes. Adult fitness programs, strength training, tennis courts, basketball/volleyball courts, a 1/5 mile indoor track, two aerobic studies, two swimming pools, spa-like locker room facilities and more. Certified fitness staff helps individuals attain their fitness goals.
Healthcare curricula, as well as baccalaureate occupational and college remedial programs are offered at this extension center.
Fox Valley Dialysis
Kidney dialysis services are offered in this modern facility on the Rush-Copley campus.
Skilled nursing, retirement housing and much more is offered at Alden of Waterford.
For over 80 years, the Greater Aurora Chamber of Commerce has provided leadership necessary to maintain a successful, proactive business environment for Aurora and the surrounding communities. We are the resource, offering nearly 1,400 member organizations benefits in three essential areas of business: 1) Promotional opportunities limited to our distinguished members. 2) A strong voice in issues relevant to the responsible growth of our business community. 3) Networking opportunities that generate solid business relations.
Incorporated in 1915, the Greater Oswego Chamber of Commerce has been in existence for over 85 years. Today, the Chamber is an active, energetic and growing organization with well over 450 members. We are working to improve business and the quality of life for the greater Oswego community.
As the active voice of business and industry, the Plainfield Area Chamber of Commerce serves the interests of the business community, and on behalf of its members, acts as an advocate and catalyst in meeting those needs.
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center is the heart of the Rush System for Health, an integrated health care system designed to serve approximately 3 million people. The System is a comprehensive network that links community hospitals and other health care organizations to the specialized services available at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center is an academic medical center that encompasses the 824-bed Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital (including Rush Children's Hospital, the 110-bed Johnston R. Bowman Health Center and Rush University. Rush University is home to one of the first medical colleges in the Midwest and one of the nation's top-ranked nursing colleges, as well as graduate programs in allied health and basic sciences.
The United Way of the Aurora Area seeks to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves by strengthening the organized capacity of people to care for one another. The United Way achieves its mission by:
- Effectively generating, allocating and managing resources which match health and human service with donors' charitable goals;
- Fostering standards of excellence in member agency management;
- Stimulating community volunteer involvement;
- Encouraging collaboration among all service organizations;
- Providing leadership for a positive response to emerging community needs.
This independent, comprehensive university offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs and specialized courses. The main campus is in Aurora and an additional campus is near Lake Geneva in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
Waubonsee Community College is a public, comprehensive community college which was organized in 1966, as mandated by the Illinois Community College Act, to provide education and training services for individuals in portions of Kane, Kendall, DeKalb, LaSalle and Will counties of District 516.