Page Body Health care at The Ohio State University is future-focused and driven by our mission to improve people’s lives through innovation in research, education and patient care. Our staff of 17,000 is earning international distinction by delivering health care that is predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory. We call it P4 Medicine.
Growth with People
- From FY00 to FY11, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's Health System almost doubled in size, growing from nearly 9,000 employees to nearly 17,000
- Named one of central Ohio’s Best Places to Work by Columbus’s Business First newspaper five years in a row: 2007-2011. One of only five organizations in the “Large Company” category
Research Excellence
- From FY06 to FY11, total research funding increased by more than $160 million ($131.8 million to $291.8 million); NIH funding increased from $88.9 million to $113 million
- One of only 59 members of a National Institutes of Health consortium that speeds the translation of scientific discovery into better patient care
- One of only 40 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers (CCCs) in the United States; the NCI named our CCC “exceptional” – its highest ranking
- One of only 11 institutes with a CCC, a Center for Translation Science Award (CTSA) and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Med Into Grad award; one of only five with a CCC, CTSA, HHMI and a Pharmacogenomics Network Award
- Houses or co-manages more than 20 research centers and institutes and 25 core research laboratories
- Received $76.7 million in multiyear Third Frontier research grants from state of Ohio
- More than 2,000 active research studies in virtually every medical specialty
- Seven faculty members currently elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences
Education Excellence
- The College of Medicine ranked 38th by U.S. News & World Report and 13th among public medical schools in its 2012 “America’s Best Graduate Schools” list
- The College of Medicine received more than 4,500 applications for its 2011 entering medical class of 264 students
- Redesigned medical school curriculum known as Lead. Serve. Inspire. fully integrates foundational and clinical science to prepare students for personalized medicine
- One of the few universities in the world to offer five dual medical degrees: MD/PhD (Medical Scientist); MD/MBA (Business Administration); MD/JD (Law); MD/MHA (Health Administration); MD/MPH (Public Health)
- School of Allied Medical Professions: Offers seven undergraduate and four graduate programs, such as athletic training, health sciences, medical dietetics, radiologic science, respiratory therapy and physical therapy, and enrolls more than 1,600 students in preprofessional or professional curricula
- School of Biomedical Science: Training for biomedical research careers in fields ranging from anatomy and biomedical informatics to molecular and cellular biochemistry, virology, neuroscience, cell biology and pharmacology
- More than 750 residents and fellows train in more than 65 accredited graduate and residency programs each year
- More than 13,500 College of Medicine MD and residency program graduates practice in all 50 states and in more than 50 countries
- Over the past year, physicians in more than 130 countries subscribed to our web-based continuing medical education training programs
Patient Care Excellence
- U.S.News & World Report named us to its 2011 list of “America’s Best Hospitals,” based on quality, outcomes and reputation, for the 19th consecutive year, and singled out 11 of our specialties
- One of only 10 to receive the national 2011 University HealthSystem Consortium Quality Leadership Award for delivering high-quality patient care
- First hospital in central Ohio to achieve Magnet® status for nursing excellence; first hospital in central Ohio to earn Magnet® redesignation
- Virtually self-sustaining financially with an FY 2011 operating revenue of $1.79 billion
- Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center hospitals statistics (FY 2011)
- 56,869 patient admissions
- 4,122 births
- 1,096,992 outpatient visits
- 120,625 Emergency Department visits
- 15,933 inpatient surgeries
- 20,482 outpatient surgeries
- Provides more than $177 million in annual community benefits through charity care, outreach efforts and other support
- 483 out of 558 (87 percent) local physicians on the 2011-2012 “Best Doctors in America” list are Ohio State faculty
Health Care at The Ohio State University Includes:
- Faculty Group Practice and OSUP
- University Hospital
- University Hospital East
- Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute
- Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
- OSU Harding Hospital (Behavioral Health)
- OSU Rehabilitation Services at Dodd Hall
- OSU Primary Care Network (OSU CarePoint and FastCare)
- Specialty Care Network (includes maternal-fetal medicine, orthopaedics, neurological surgery and anesthesiology)
- OSU College of Medicine
- School of Allied Medical Professions
- School of Biomedical Science
- OSU Office of Health Sciences – seven research and service-based centers that involve faculty and researchers from across the OSU campus.
- Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Health Sciences Library
- Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
- Nisonger Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
- Center for Biostatistics
- Center for Microbial Interface Biology
- Center for Molecular Neurobiology
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