Magazine names six doctors at NCH to Top Disease Doctor List

The June/July issue of Chicago magazine published a list of 644 top doctors who specialize in treating the six deadliest diseases. Six physicians practicing at Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) in Arlington Heights were included in the list.

• Brian Albert, M.D. – Cardiovascular Disease
• Gary Grad, M.D. – Medical Oncology
• Ernst Lengyel, M.D., PhD – Gynecological Oncology
• Najeeb Mohideen, M.D. – Radiation Oncology
• Stephen Nigh, M.D – Radiation Oncology
• S. Diane Yamada, M.D. – Gynecological Oncology

The list has been compiled by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a healthcare research and information company founded in 1992 by a former medical college board chairman and president to help guide consumers to America’s top doctors and hospitals. Castle Connolly’s selection process, under the direction of a medical doctor, involves surveying hundreds of thousands of physicians, as well as academic medical centers, specialty hospitals, and regional and community hospitals across the nation. Doctors do not and cannot pay to be selected.

For more information about these doctors and other fine physicians at NCH, visit nch.org/doctors.

About Northwest Community Healthcare

Named one of Healthgrades™ America’s 250 best hospitals, Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) is celebrating more than 60 years of exceptional care. The Arlington Heights campus is home to a 509-bed hospital with full-service retail pharmacy, behavioral health center and state-of-the-art NCH Wellness Center with spa.

Throughout the northwest suburbs, NCH has 23 doctor’s offices; five immediate care centers; seven physical rehabilitation sites; and 13 lab locations. Board-certified primary and specialty care physicians see 200,000 patients a year and the hospital treats 20,000 inpatients annually.