Facts

University of Iowa Health Care is an integrated, internationally recognized academic medical center that includes:

• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
• University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
• University of Iowa Physicians, Iowa’s largest multi-specialty medical and surgical group practice

About Us

In partnership with physicians from across the state, we are dedicated to promoting the health of all Iowans through our patient care, biomedical research, and health education missions

• Home to Iowa’s only comprehensive academic medical center and only public medical school
  
• Our patients come from every part of Iowa, every state, and many nations
  
• One of Iowa’s largest employers with a total economic impact of $3.4 billion
  
• UI health sciences campus also includes the colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health
  
• Unique relationship with the Iowa City VA Medical Center provides research support for faculty and educational opportunities for students

History

Organized in 1870, the UI Carver College of Medicine was the first co-educational medical school in the U.S. Patient care dates to about 1873.

Advances

1938 UI establishes first blood bank west of Mississippi River
1940s Iowa Cleft Palate program one of first established in U.S.
1955 UI creates first agricultural medicine institute in western hemisphere
1956 UI physicians pioneer heart-lung machine
1971 World’s first horizontal gastroplasty surgery for morbid obesity
1982 First multi-channel cochlear implant in U.S.
1984 World’s first bone marrow registry
1985 Iowa’s first successful adult heart transplant
1995 Implantable, artificial inner ear for treatment of deafness developed
1996 UI advances understanding of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis
2002 Surgeons pioneer pediatric robotic surgery
2006 World's first magnetically guided lung procedure using Stereotaxis®
2007 UI receives one of first Clinical and Translational Science awards
2008 UI first to use embryonic stem cells to develop functioning immune cells
2008 Iowa chosen as site for long-term National Children’s Study

Milestone Gifts

1982 $300 million Carver Charitable Trust provides long-term benefits to UI
1989 Pappajohns give $10 million for pavilion and clinical cancer center
1994 Pomerantz family gives $3 million support for patient care
2000 Holden family donates $25 million to support cancer research and care
2002 $63 million Carver family gift creates UI Carver College of Medicine
2009 Fraternal Order of Eagles pledges $25 million effort for diabetes research
2009 Pappajohns give $26.4 million for biomedical discovery institute

Recognition

• U.S.News and World Report ranks our:
  • Physician assistant program first and physical therapy program fifth among all universities
  • Primary care medicine and rural medicine education programs 10th among all universities
  • Research training program 14th among public medical schools
  • Otolaryngology, ophthalmology, and orthopaedics programs in the top 10; four other clinical specialties rank in the top 50
  • UI Children’s Hospital’s kidney disorders treatment program 25th
• 268 UI physicians are "Best Doctors in America®"
• First Iowa hospital to receive the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence
• Certified as a Level 1 (highest) Trauma Center for adults and children
• Verified for burn care by the American College of Surgeons and the American Burn Association
• Wellmark Blue Distinction Center™ in three areas: cardiac care, bariatric (weight loss) surgery, and complex and rare cancers
• Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval™ as a Primary Stroke Center
• United Resource Network “Center of Excellence” for neonatal intensive care

Premier Healthcare

• Patient-centered care in more than 200 specialties is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• UI Children’s Hospital is ranked 20th in surveys of best hospitals for kids by Parents magazine
• Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is Iowa’s only NCI-designated "comprehensive" cancer center
• UI Heart and Vascular Center includes a full range of medical and surgical cardiac specialists
• UI Women’s Health Center offers the latest in women-focused comprehensive health care
• Neuroscientists bring multi-specialty expertise to conditions of the brain and nervous system
• Organ transplant specialists perform heart, lung, liver, kidney, and pancreas procedures

Research

• UI Carver College of Medicine researchers are leaders in investigating biomedical imaging, cancer, cardiovascular disease, brain imaging and neurosciences, cystic fibrosis, hearing loss and deafness, muscular dystrophy, macular degeneration and other blinding eye diseases, and Huntington’s disease
• UI Institute for Clinical and Translational Science brings together scientists from 11 UI colleges within a single research program
• Four faculty members are Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
• 16 UI faculty are members of the Institute of Medicine; three belong to the National Academy of Sciences
• UI ranks 11th among public research universities in NIH grants

Teaching

• One-fourth of Iowa physicians have a role in educating UI medical students
• Half of Iowa’s 5,000 practicing physicians received some or all of their medical education at UI
• Clinical education opportunities are available in all 99 Iowa counties
• UI has Iowa’s only emergency medicine residency program
• UI Carver College of Medicine:
  • Faculty teach more than 637 medical students and 250 associated sciences students
  • Faculty also teach basic science classes to more than 5,000 undergraduate students from other UI colleges
  • One of 12 medical schools participating in the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship Program
• UI Hospitals and Clinics
  • More than 700 resident and fellow physicians and dentists receive specialty training
  • Is the clinical training base for students from the colleges of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and public health
  • Clinical departments collaborate to conduct accredited health professional education programs
  • Provides supervised clinical settings for health-related programs at Kirkwood Community College

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Convenient Access

• Four parking ramps serve patients, families, and visitors
• Guest Services staff provide patients with valet parking, patient escorts, and concierge services
• UI Health Access provides a toll-free, 24-hour service for health advice and consultation (319-384-8442 or 800-777-8442)
• Visit www.uihealthcare.com

University of Iowa Health Care is an integrated academic medical center under one executive leadership team, consisting of UI Hospitals and Clinics, the UI Carver College of Medicine, and UI Physicians, Iowa’s largest multi-specialty medical and surgical group practice.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
200 Hawkins Dr.
Iowa City, IA 52242-1009
319-384-8442 Tel
800-777-8442 Tel
www.uihealthcare.com

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