NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Doctors and health care providers in Lake Forest, IL

821 individual NPPES records list a practice address in Lake Forest, 59th of 541 Illinois cities. The largest group is physical therapist: 67, 8% of the city's records, against 5% across Illinois. Page 17 of 17.

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Lake Forest in Illinois

  • Rank in Illinois59th of 541 cities by records
  • Share of the state0.3% of Illinois's records
  • Specialties present25 or more taxonomy codes
  • Top three groups20.6% of all records

Compared with Illinois as a whole, Lake Forest has 6.8× the state's share of hospitalist physician records and 0.30× its share of mental health counselor records.

Providers in Lake Forest, alphabetically

  1. Darrin Worthington, AU.D.Audiologist1104006584
  2. Amanda Wright, PTPhysical Therapist1861726986
  3. Catherine Wu, M.D.Hospitalist Physician1194179663
  4. Rachel Wurtzel, OTR/LOccupational Therapist1215517784
  5. Maya Yabumoto, MDHospitalist Physician1134680135
  6. Beisi YangPhysician Assistant1649802299
  7. Linda Yellin, D.C.Chiropractor1699877332
  8. Suemin Yoon, MDClinical Neurophysiology Physician1306330378
  9. Michelle Young, MS, RD, LDNRegistered Dietitian1285090670
  10. Susan Young, SUSAN YOUNGOccupational Therapist1407185655
  11. Cheong YuHospitalist Physician1124522719
  12. Komal Zacharia, M.D.Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician1629367222
  13. Malgorzata Zagrodny, MSN, FNP-BCFamily Nurse Practitioner1073175741
  14. Dana Zakieh, SLPSpeech-Language Pathologist1114634367
  15. Veronica Zamora-Olivencia, MDNephrology Physician1689105181
  16. Qingju Zeng, APRNFamily Nurse Practitioner1508138751
  17. Irene Zhu, PA-CPhysician Assistant1043971849
  18. Jessie Zhu, DMD MSOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Dentistry1366253916
  19. Brian Zider, M.D.Anesthesiology Physician1114344322
  20. Mary Zinn-Batina, MDPulmonary Disease Physician1447204136
  21. Irina Zvereva, DPTPhysical Therapist1891029948

The largest Illinois cities

  1. Chicago63,379
  2. Springfield4,997
  3. Naperville4,634
  4. Peoria4,621
  5. Evanston4,013

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How to read this directory

Lake Forest, Illinois appears in the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System with 821 registered healthcare providers spanning 25 or more distinct NUCC-taxonomy specialties. This count includes every individual clinician who has applied for an NPI and listed a practice address in Lake Forest - physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, chiropractors, physical therapists, optometrists, psychologists, podiatrists, and every other credentialed provider type CMS tracks. It does not measure hospital beds, urgent-care capacity, or whether a given clinic is accepting new patients; it measures the pool of professionals with current NPI enrollment and a Lake Forest practice location on file. Every figure is drawn from the federal National Provider Identifier Registry (CMS NPPES) - more than 7 million providers, maintained since May 2007, with 2024 Medicare Part D data, and, according to CMS, can be searched, compared, and traced in our methodology.

The provider mix in Lake Forest is weighted toward Physical Therapist (67 clinicians, followed by Physician Assistant with 62 and Nurse Practitioner with 40). That distribution reflects how NPPES records specialty: providers self-select a primary taxonomy code, so a family physician who also practices geriatrics will show up under whichever NUCC code they registered first. Relative to Illinois's population, Lake Forest reports roughly 6.5 providers per 100,000 residents using the state-level denominator, which is a rough proxy rather than a precise access-to-care measurement; the true catchment area of any {cityName} clinician extends beyond the municipal boundary.

Of Illinois's most common specialties, Professional Counselor is the most prominent one with no provider currently listing a Lake Forest practice address, a coverage gap Lake Forest patients typically fill by traveling to a larger nearby hub.

For Lake Forest patients, this directory is most useful as a starting shortlist. Important: PlainDoctor is a directory of publicly available CMS government data, not a review site, a ranking, or medical advice. NPPES data is self-reported and refreshed monthly; call the practice directly to confirm the provider is still there, accepts your insurance, and is taking new patients.

For informational purposes only; this directory is not medical advice and not a substitute for checking a license. See also: how to find a doctor and how to verify one.

Common questions

How many doctors are in Lake Forest, IL?

There are 821 registered healthcare providers in Lake Forest, IL, covering 25 or more specialties. This includes physicians, dentists, therapists, and other licensed providers.

What are the most common medical specialties in Lake Forest?

The most common specialties in Lake Forest are Physical Therapist, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Hospitalist Physician, Speech-Language Pathologist. Physical Therapist has the most providers with 67.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov). Records are self-reported registrations, not licenses.

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.