The Mizzou Impact on Health Care
More Missouri physicians have received their training from MU than from any other university.
University of Missouri Health Care has more than 6,000 professionals who care for patients from every county in Missouri.
The University of Missouri School of Health Professions serves 10,960 people, representing all Missouri counties, through clinics and outreach.
The MU School of Health Professions has grown by 95 percent since 2002. Approximately 86 percent of its graduates stay in Missouri to practice; half of them work in underserved rural areas.
In fiscal year 2008 the University of Missouri Health Care System provided more than $44 million in uncompensated care.
Last year, University of Missouri Health Care admitted 20,260 patients, performed 19,222 surgeries, recorded 510,897 clinic visits and 42,995 emergency-center visits.
Home to the world's most powerful university research reactor, MU is the largest U.S. producer of radioisotopes for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
MU is the only university in the world to bring a radiopharmaceutical (to treat cancer) from conception to clinical trials to product.
MU is a national leader in comparative medicine; researchers collaborate, sharing discoveries, innovations and treatments benefiting both animals and humans.
Eighty-seven percent of MU nursing graduates stay in Missouri.
Nursing Outreach at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing offered 58 programs for nurses in 87 of Missouri’s 114 counties last year.
MU developed a treatment for severe joint degeneration and arthritis that has allowed crippled dogs to walk and is now being used in human clinical trials.
MU scientists performed the world's first pediatric angioplasty to correct heart defects in babies.
With 150 sites in 49 Missouri counties and the city of St. Louis, MU's nationally recognized Missouri Telehealth Network provides better health care quality and access to rural patients.
In 2008, the Missouri Telehealth Network was awarded a pilot as part of the FCC Rural Health Pilot Program, which will bring more than $2.3 million dollars to the state of Missouri.
In 2008, University of Missouri Health System provided care to more than 161,000 Missouri residents, serving patients from every county in the state.
MU researchers were the first to develop transgenic pigs whose organs can potentially be transplanted into humans.
MU is developing new technologies for long-term care facilities, improving nursing homes and using exercise therapy to keep older adults active and vital.
MU Veterans Services is nationally recognized for traumatic brain injury (TBI) expertise. Of 540,000 veterans in Missouri, up to 20 percent screen positive for TBI.
MU helped create TigerPlace, a facility that combines cutting-edge technology and current research to enable older adults to continue living there, even if their health care needs increase, a practice called “aging in place.”
An MU surgery professor invented Zegerid — now licensed by Santarus — a new way to deliver ulcer treatment drugs.
Every dollar spent on MU's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program results in a $8.74 reduction in families' future medical costs.
