Medical centers in the United States
Despite their non-profit status, affiliation with private ventures and major medical schools often allows them to maintain state-of-the-art facilities and services.
Approximately 375 of the larger institutions belong to the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems (COTH).
[4] The UCSF Medical Center is a teaching hospital that also conducts biomedical research which is located in San Francisco, California.
[7] Lake Nona Medical City is a 650-acre (260 ha) health and life sciences park in Orlando, Florida, United States.
Emory University Hospital is a 733-bed facility in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in the care of acutely ill adults.
The hospital is renowned as one of the nation's leaders in cardiology and cardiac surgery, oncology, transplantation, ophthalmology, and the neurosciences.
The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the Atlanta region.
Intramural research is primarily conducted at the main campus in Bethesda, Maryland, immediately adjacent to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and right outside Washington, D.C.
[28] The Johns Hopkins Hospital is the birthplace of many medical specialties including neurosurgery, urology, endocrinology, pediatrics, cardiac surgery[29] and child psychiatry.
The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21[39][40][41] throughout Baltimore and the wider United States.
[47] The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults 0-21[48][49][50] throughout Michigan and the surrounding states.
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization and internationally renowned group medical practice headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota.
It has clinical, research, and educational facilities in Rochester, Minnesota, in addition to Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona, and Jacksonville, Florida.
[53] This practice is thought to decrease the monetary motivation to see patients in large numbers and increase the incentive to spend more time with individuals.
[54] Covering 164 acres over 17 city blocks, the medical campus is positioned at the intersection of St. Louis's Central West End and Forest Park Southeast.
The two medical schools remain essentially autonomous, though there is increasing cooperation and coordination of clinical, research, and residency training programs.
[57] NYU Langone Medical Center also operates over thirty ambulatory facilities in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island.
In January 2008, the University of Rochester announced a $500 million strategic plan geared toward expansion in research and patient services.
Collectively, the hospital offers more surgeons, robotic instrumentation and specialty procedures than any other facility in Central New York, with the Department of Surgery providing the largest component.
[78] UNCMC features an ACS designated adult and pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center[79][80] and has a helipad to handle medevac patients.
The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21[84][85] throughout North Carolina.
One of the largest private medical centers in the world, the Cleveland Clinic saw more than 2,800,000 patient visits in 2005, with almost 70,000 hospital admissions.
The Cleveland Clinic's approximately 1,700 salaried staff physicians represent 120 medical specialties and subspecialties and is ranked among the top four hospitals in America.
[89] For 26 consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has recognized Ohio State Wexner Medical Center specialties in its "Best Hospitals" rankings.
[90] Although it is not a part of Penn Health System, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia(CHOP) is also on the same campus and it engages in many collaborative efforts.
[91] UPMC is one of the largest medical center systems in the world with more than 35 hospitals, 8,000 licensed beds, and 600 outpatient sites in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York, as well as locations overseas.
Appearing on U.S. News & World Report's honor roll of the top hospitals for over 15 years,[92] it was the site of the creation of the first polio vaccine by Jonas Salk, helped to develop emergency medicine under Peter Safar, and pioneered organ transplantation under the direction of Thomas Starzl, at one time boasting the largest and busiest organ transplantation program in the world.
[93] A fully integrated health care system that includes its own health insurance and commercial services divisions, UPMC has exported its clinical and administrative expertise and technologies around the world, including the ISMETT organ transplantation center in Sicily, a hospital and cancer centers in Ireland, and partnerships in China, Colombia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
The center is where one of the first and largest air ambulance services was created and where a successful inter-institutional transplant program was developed.
PwC has noted how "AMCs can do a lot of complex work, but 90 percent of patients are people who need to quit smoking, eat better, improve their literacy and find a better-paying job.
