Patient Care
Patient care in an academic health sciences center carries many benefits not found elsewhere. Patients benefit from the perspective of many physicians, including resident-physicians and fellows, who team up with faculty members to provide optimal health care.
University Medical Center, a private non-profit hospital located on the campus of the Arizona Health Sciences Center, works very closely with all AHSC entities as the primary teaching and research hospital for The University of Arizona Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy,
Chosen in a nationwide survey and ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of America’s top hospitals, UMC provides the highest level of emergency treatment, advanced technology and quality patient care. In addition, UMC provides advanced treatment on an inpatient and outpatient basis in more than 70 specialty areas.
UMC offers heart, lung, liver, kidney, bone marrow and corneal transplantation services; a comprehensive epilepsy program; the bone-stretching Ilizarov program; a movement disorders program for Parkinson’s disease patients; stereotactic radiosurgery; and an assisted reproductive technology program for reproductive endocrinology and infertility.
Other areas of treatment include: anesthesiology; emergency services; epilepsy; cancer; cardiology; neurology; obstetrics/ gynecology; pathology; pediatrics; plastic surgery; psychiatry; radiation oncology; radiology; surgery; and urology.
UMC’s highly trained faculty physicians, interns, residents, nurses and other health professionals provide exceptional patient care and offer the latest treatments and procedures for the physical and mental well-being of the residents of Arizona and the Southwest. |
