The University of Illinois System is improving the health and wellness of the people of Illinois. UI Health provided more than 1.4 million patient visits in FY2024 across the University of Illinois Hospital, outpatient clinics and Mile Square Health Center locations. The University of Illinois Hospital has 438 beds and more than 1,200 physicians and advanced practitioners on staff. The Mile Square Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center network incorporating locations across Chicago, including school-based health centers, with a special mission to address health concerns for underserved, urban populations.
We’re also training more medical and health professionals than any other institution in the state and investing time, talent, and dollars to stay on the leading-edge of health and biomedical research.
Providing care
The University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System (UI Health) is the state’s largest public healthcare provider. We provide exemplary patient care and are committed to providing charity care and resources for underserved populations. In partnership with community hospitals near our regional campuses around the state, we help deliver high-quality care while educating the next generation of health professionals.
UI Health had more than 1.4 million patient visits in FY2024.
Training healthcare leaders
Programs in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, social work, public health, and others are developing the healthcare professionals of tomorrow, many of whom will reside and practice in Illinois after graduation. The training offered through our three universities makes the U of I System a state leader in providing skilled professionals who enhance the quality of life for those at home and around the world.
The Carle Illinois College of Medicine in Urbana-Champaign, an engineering-based medical college, welcomed its first class in 2018.
Finding health solutions
Each university is conducting research and making discoveries to improve health and medicine. From a cure for sickle cell anemia to the development of mobile apps and wearables for health monitoring, our researchers are continually exploring ways to improve our health environment.
Established in 1859, the UIC College of Pharmacy is the oldest academic unit in the U of I System.
“Here we have a unique combination of expertise, technology, and people who are dreamers and believers that medicine can change.”
Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, MDChief, UIC Division of General Surgery
World-renowned robotic surgery specialist