About University Hospitals

For more than 155 years, University Hospitals has been on a mission to heal, teach and discover. As a renowned academic medical center and community hospital network, we’ve expanded across Northeast Ohio to deliver what matters most to our patients: personalized, compassionate care; medical discovery and breakthroughs; and high-quality, affordable care close to home.
Founded in 1886, University Hospitals serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of 21 hospitals (including five joint ventures), more than 50 health centers and outpatient facilities, and over 200 physician offices in 16 counties throughout northern Ohio.

We’re consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. Additionally, University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital is recognized as one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals, ranking in nine pediatric specialties, and University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, is part of the National Cancer Institute-designated Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (the nation's highest designation).

University Hospitals provides compassionate care for more than a million patients a year – one patient at a time. We are guided in this work by our core values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Compassion, Belonging and Trust. We set the highest standards for quality and patient safety, and have received prestigious awards and recognition for our high-quality care, a personalized patient experience, and the latest in medical and research innovations.
As one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, University Hospitals is home to some of the most prestigious clinical and research programs in the nation, with more than 3,200 active clinical trials and research studies underway. Our health system’s flagship quaternary care academic medical center, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, has been affiliated with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine since the late 1800s, as well as Northeast Ohio Medical University, University of Oxford (England) and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. University Hospitals is also affiliated with Harrington Discovery Institute, which engages top scholars internationally in accelerating the development of medicines for unmet needs.

Today, this collaboration forms one of the largest biomedical research centers in the nation. By providing excellent patient care, innovating new treatment protocols, and training the physicians of tomorrow, University Hospitals influences and advances standards of care both locally and worldwide. Our doctors have pioneered innovative approaches to patient care, leading-edge treatments and procedures, and breakthrough medicines. Some have set the standard of care in their field and we’re a leader in active clinical trials.

Recent decades have brought vast advances in medicine, and our physicians are leaders in evolving health care technologies that improve patient outcomes and help speed their recovery. We’re driven by a commitment to deliver the best and most advanced care to patients throughout Northeast Ohio, and train the next generation of physicians, nurses, researchers and other providers.