Importance of an Academic Medical Center

Academic medical centers are behind much of the innovation in American healthcare. UofL’s Health Sciences Center:

• Offers clinical education for medical students, physicians, dentists, nurses and public health professionals
• Encourages medical research
• Offers medical developments and treatments not yet available at other hospitals
• Provides a safety net for the uninsured and underinsured. (A 2005 study showed UofL physicians provide more than $16 million in uncompensated care over and above treatment provided under the QCCT agreement.)

UofL’s health sciences center has earned recognition in many areas including:

• The state’s first certified stroke center
• The state's first and only accredited breast care center accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers
  
• The expansion of a remote physician robot network across the state to include 13 hospitals to date
• The area’s only adult trauma service
• Research collaborations between the Brown Cancer Center and the Owensboro Medical Health System (OMHS) to develop cancer-fighting drugs and vaccines derived from tobacco and other plant sources
• A School of Nursing and OMHS partner­ship in a baccalaureate nursing program intended to graduate up to 40 students each year
• Dental outreach programs that provide more than $1 million in clinical care to the underserved each year

Learn more about these programs at louisville.edu/hsc