UI Health | University of Illinois Chicago

What is UI Health?

Dedicated to the pursuit of health equity, UI Health provides comprehensive care, education, and research to train health care leaders and foster healthy communities in Illinois and beyond.

Community-Based Health Equity

UI Health With the Community

See how UI Health honors its long-standing community-centered commitment of inclusive partnership with the communities we serve.
Portraits of Health Equity

Brief video portraits of some of the clinicians, researchers, educators and community-based practitioners who are pursuing health equity through their work at UI Health.

UI Health Points of Pride

$ 375 M in total annual health sciences research funding (FY23)
# 15 Nationally ranked College of Pharmacy by U.S. News & World Report
# 1 ranked College of Pharmacy in Illinois
1 in 8 Practicing IL physicians received their MD at UIC
Over 8,000 IL Nurses trained at UIC
Only Public, Research 1 University in Chicago
40 % IL Dentists trained at UIC
# 17 Nationally Ranked Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
# 22 Nationally Ranked Accredited School of Public Health
1 in 4 IL Social Workers Trained at UIC
# 3 U.S. News & World Report Ranking of Applied Health Sciences BS in health information management
7 Health Sciences Colleges at UIC
First PhD of Biomedical & Health Informatics in Illinois
11 Federally qualified Mile Square Health Center locations
# 3 U.S. News & World Report Ranking of College of Nursing RN to BSN Online Degree Completion Program
# 1 The UI Health kidney/pancreas program was the largest such program in the U.S. for 2023
First UI Health Specialty Care Building was first to offer single port robotic surgery in an ambulatory setting
> 1 M UI Health provided healthcare services through more than 1.4 million patient visits in 2024
Leader UI Health has been named a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality by the Human Rights Campaign

New & Noteworthy

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UI Health Nurse Midwife is One of Six in Nation to Receive Prestigious Scholarship

Karie E. Stewart, MPH, MSN, CNM, APRN, a nurse midwife and founder of the Melanated Group Midwidfery Care program at UI Health, has been honored with a scholarship from the March of Dimes and Pampers. About the scholarship, Stewart said, “As a Certified Nurse Midwife, public health professional, and PhD student, my doctoral research is not just academic, it’s a mission rooted in lived experiences and a drive to dismantle the systemic barriers that disproportionately impact Black moms and babies. This scholarship will elevate the visibility of innovative and community-driven solutions.”

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