Dedicated to Creating the Future of Medicine to Improve People's Lives
Located in Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University Medical Center is one of the largest and most diverse academic medical centers in the country and the only academic medical center in central Ohio. Ohio State's Medical Center includes:
- a top-30 College of Medicine
- six hospitals
- a unified physician practice
- network of primary and specialty care practices
- more than a dozen research centers and institutes
- 20 core laboratories
This powerful enterprise is driven by our mission: to improve people’s lives through innovation in research, education and patient care.
We also share a common vision: working as a team, we will shape the future of medicine by creating, disseminating and applying new knowledge, and by personalizing health care to meet the needs of each individual.
Central to how we carry out our mission and vision are our values: excellence, collaborating as one university, integrity and personal accountability, openness and trust, diversity in people and ideas, change and innovation, simplicity in our work, empathy and compassion, and leadership.
Our Strategic Plan Overview describes our mission, vision, values and strategic goals in greater detail.
Our Logo
Just as our Vision Statement is focused on teamwork, The Ohio State University Medical Center logo reinforces that we work as one organization. The Ohio State logo remains the foundation of our mark to reflect our pride in being a part of this great University. The uniquely colorful, DNA-inspired form communicates our commitment to personalized medicine in an energetic way.
Leaders in Personalized Medicine
Ohio State’s Medical Center is a national leader in developing personalized health care, a new form of healthcare delivery based on each individual’s unique biology, behavior and environment. Ohio State experts in biomedical informatics, genetics, pharmacology and specialties as diverse as cancer and wound healing are joining forces to apply discoveries in this new field directly to patient care and disease prevention.
Our six signature programs – Cancer, Critical Care, Heart, Imaging, Neurosciences and Transplantation – and our supporting programs are key to providing science-based and individually tailored patient care to people in central Ohio and beyond. Also positioning us for advancements with personalized health care is our new Biomedical Research Tower (BRT). This impressive structure nearly doubles the amount of biomedical research space at the Medical Center.
The BRT, increased research funding and discoveries, recruitment and retention of acclaimed faculty and staff all underscore OSU Medical Center’s commitment to creating the future of medicine to improve people’s lives. Learn more about how we're serving our community.