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Welcome to the Duly Health and Care Media Center. Here you will find our latest news releases and updates, as well as an archive of all previous press releases and media announcements.
You will also find information on Duly Health and Care’s leadership, an organizational overview and timeline, and how to connect with our media relations team. Look around and if you’re a reporter interested in insights from one of our extraordinary physicians or team members, feel free to reach out:
Molly McMillen
Vice President, Communications
Duly Health and Care
(630) 942‑7902
Molly.McMillen@dulyhealthandcare.com
Organizational History
1960s
Built With Innovation
DuPage Medical Group began 50 years ago as the brainchild of Dr. Robert McCray, a local surgeon and health care visionary. Dr. McCray’s advancements helped redefine the physician practice in DuPage County into the kind of personalized, leading-edge health care that until then was rarely available outside the university medical or research center settings.
In the early 1960s, Dr. McCray visited 35 US clinics, including Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic, examining elements that made group practices successful. He teamed with several physicians – fellow surgeon and partner Dr. Glen Asselmeier, internists Drs. Joe Crumrine, Fred Kuharich and James Erlenborn and pediatricians Drs. James Vercoe and William Kindrachuk. Dr. Gary Christensen joined the team after completing a residency in obstetrics and gynecology.
The group broke ground in August 1963 on a 12,000-square-foot building. They named the clinic Glen Ellyn Clinic, partly in homage to the Mayo Clinic.
Glen Ellyn Clinic opened on September 1, 1964, with eight physicians, 15 nurses and a staff of lab technicians and administrative personnel. The clinic offered groundbreaking innovations for its time – a laboratory, X‑ray services and a pharmacy, all onsite.
1970s
Success and Growth
By 1970, the partnership had 25 physicians seeing more than 300 new patients a month. Office and lab space was added thanks to a 24,000-square-foot expansion.
Growth continued in the early 1970s. Two new office buildings accommodated new medical specialists. New physicians saw Glen Ellyn Clinic as an opportunity to practice in the company of established colleagues. The clinic also introduced a range of specialties to the Western Suburbs, including thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, gastroenterology, invasive cardiology and neonatology.
1980s
Continued Expansion
In the 1980s, the clinic added 38,000 square feet of office and lab space to accommodate physicians in 16 specialties and sub-specialties. Clinic offices were opened in Bloomingdale and Naperville. By the end of the decade, the Glen Ellyn Clinic was one of the city’s largest employers – 80 physicians and 480 staff handled 300,000 annual patient visits. It also owned one of the largest clinic-operated labs in Illinois, performing more than 100,000 tests onsite and 25,000 more offsite every year.
1990s
Change and Transition
In the 1990s, the clinic joined the country’s largest physician management company to ensure the financial strength it needed to continue growing.
As managed care gained ground in the 1990s, physician groups across the country experienced increasing pressures, including two others in DuPage County that would figure prominently in the Glen Ellyn Clinic’s future – Mid-America Health Partners and Wheaton Medical Clinic.
Wheaton Medical Clinic included 25 physicians and had recently affiliated itself with a major health insurer, and Mid-America Health Partners’ 50 primary care physicians had formed in 1995 as a physician-led independent practice group. After Wheaton Medical Clinic merged with the Glen Ellyn Clinic in 1997, Mid-America joined the following year. Shortly after, physicians from all three began efforts to return the combined clinic to the private physician group-practice model under local control.
The result was DuPage Medical Group, which was formed in 1999.
DuPage Medical Group (1999 – 2021)
DuPage Medical Group became the state’s leading multi-specialty group practice. With over 700 primary care and specialty physicians in more than 120 locations, DuPage Medical Group was home to nearly 1.1 million patient visits annually, treating about a third of DuPage County’s population.
DuPage Medical Group experienced significant growth and expansion into neighboring counties as the organization worked to meet population growth and movement. Carrying on the legacy of Dr. McCray and his co-founders, DuPage Medical Group focused on providing the Western Suburbs with access to the finest health care available.
Today
DuPage Medical Group became Duly Health and Care on September 15, 2021.
Our name is a promise to practice healthcare the way it was intended. “Du” means two in Latin – as in two partners: patient and caregiver, working together toward the same goals. And as in two parts of our story: where we came from – DuPage – and where we’re headed – the way healthcare should feel.
Duly Health and Care is the largest independent, multi-specialty physician-directed medical group in the Midwest with more than 900 primary care and specialty care physicians and more than 6,000 team members, in over 150 locations. The organization is wholly dedicated to helping all it serves flourish by challenging the expected to deliver the extraordinary in health and care.
Duly Health and Care physicians and team members support nearly 2.5 million individuals in their personal health journeys each year, helping each one to meet their extraordinary potential through a holistic care delivery model designed to make health and care welcoming, simplified and personalized.
About Duly Health and Care
DuPage Medical Group is now known as Duly Health and Care. It is one of the largest independent, multi-specialty physician-directed medical group in the nation with more than 1000 primary care and specialty care physicians and more than 7,000 team members, in over 150 locations. The organization is wholly dedicated to helping all it serves flourish by challenging the expected to deliver the extraordinary in health and care.
Duly Health and Care physicians and team members support nearly 2.5 million individuals in their personal health journeys each year, helping each one to meet their extraordinary potential through a holistic care delivery model designed to make health and care welcoming, simplified and personalized.