University of Missouri Health Care
"The Staff for Life"
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| Company Type | Healthcare Provider |
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| Hospitals | 5 |
| Annual Revenue | $1 Billion (estimated) |
| Employees | 8328 |
| Key People | Harold A. Williamson Jr., MD, vice chancellor Mitchell Wasden, chief executive officer, chief operating officer Anita Larsen, chief nurse executive Les Hall, MD, chief medical officer |
| Headquarters | Columbia, Missouri |
The University of Missouri Health System is an academic health system located in Columbia, Missouri. It is owned by the University of Missouri System. University of Missouri Health System includes five hospitals: University Hospital, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Missouri Orthopaedic Institute and University of Missouri Women's and Children's Hospital — all of which are located in Columbia. It runs Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City, Missouri as well. It also includes more than 60 primary and specialty-care clinics (including the Mizzou Quick Care Clinics) and the University Physicians medical group.
In May 2015, MU Health Care, Mercy Health System out of Springfield, Missouri, and Mosaic Life-Care announced a joint partnership. The goal between the three systems will be to provide clinics and possibly other hospitals in rural areas of Missouri and surrounding states.
Academic partners include the University of Missouri’s School of Health Professions, School of Medicine and Sinclair School of Nursing. Also, it is affiliated with the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (which is a joint venture with HealthSouth and MU Health Care) as well as Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City and Cooper County Memorial Hospital in Boonville
As the flagship hospital of MU Health Care, University Hospital is a 307-bed facility located in Columbia, Missouri. The hospital's physicians and staff cared for 19,096 hospital patients Fiscal Year 2009. The Frank L. Mitchell Jr., MD Trauma Center located within the hospital is the only American College of Surgeons (ACS) certified Level I trauma center in Mid-Missouri and one of three in the state. University Hospital is a nationally accredited Cycle II Chest Pain Center and a nationally accredited Primary Stroke Center. It has a seven story ICU tower comprising surgical, medical-neurological and cardiac intensive care units, as well as the George D. Peak Memorial Burn and Wound Center, the only burn ICU in Mid-Missouri. University Hospital also contains the region’s only cochlear implant center, a diabetes center, an ophthalmology institute (the Mason Eye Institute), a sleep disorders center, an endoscopy center, endo-suites dedicated to minimally invasive surgery and a SameDay Surgery Center that offers hundreds of different procedures in its fully equipped operating rooms.
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