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UC HEALTH: AT A GLANCE UC Health comprises the University of California’s clinical and health professional education arms. UC Health combines the strength of UC’s patient care, teaching and research. UC has the nation’s largest health sciences instructional program with more than 14,000 students, while its five medical centers form an $8.6 billion enterprise providing broad access to world-class, specialized care. EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PATIENT CARE 4th largest health care delivery system in California 5 nationally ranked academic medical centers (U.S. News & World Report, 2014-15), including two in top 10: UCLA (No. 5) and UCSF (No. 8) 5 6 medical schools: Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco 17 health professional schools in dentistry, medicine, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, public health and veterinary medicine on seven campuses Nearly 50 percent of medical students (2,800) and medical residents (5,300) in California are trained by UC Level 1 trauma centers (operates or staffs); Level 3 or higher neonatal intensive care units; National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers 11 hospitals, with 3,308 licensed beds, 159,000 inpatient admissions and nearly 4.2 million outpatient visits a year, including 334,000 emergency room visits 25 percent of care for extensive burn cases in California 50 percent $1.7 billion of National Institutes of Health funding goes to UC, supporting research and training to help understand underlying causes of diseases and develop improved therapies, ranking first in schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy (fiscal year 2013) of all transplant surgeries in California 5,000 faculty physicians (one of the nation’s largest physician groups) 12,000 $5.2 billion of contract and grant funding goes to UC – including research, training, service and clinical trials – half of which is for health (fiscal 2013) 1.23.15 UC Health nurses, with all five medical centers achieving Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center HEALTH.UNIVERSITYOFCALIFORNIA.EDU 01 INNOVATION AND INITIATIVES SAFETY NET 13 Nearly 60 percent Nobel laureates in medicine of UC patients are covered by Medicare, Medi-Cal or lack health insurance 195 $486 million Institute of Medicine members in charity care (fiscal 2014) UC Health breakthroughs include: • Developed the cochlear implant (1979) ECONOMIC IMPACT • Developed a hepatitis B vaccine (1979, 1981) 40,000 • Performed world’s first fetal surgery (1981) medical center employees 117,000 • Discovered prions (1982) jobs generated (including indirect jobs) • Co-discovered HIV (1983) $8.6 billion • Co-discovered telomerase (1985) in total operating revenue (fiscal 2014) • Developed a treatment for brain aneurysms (1989) $12.5 billion • Invented the nicotine patch (1990) $16.7 billion in contribution to gross state product • Helped develop breast cancer drug Herceptin (1998) generated in economic activity throughout California • Developed world’s first embryonic stem cell treatment tested in humans (2010) Systemwide initiatives include: • Athena Breast Health Network • UC Biomedical Research Acceleration, Integration and Development • UC Center for Health Quality and Innovation • UC Global Health Institute 1.23.15 UC Health HEALTH.UNIVERSITYOFCALIFORNIA.EDU 02