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.
In 2005-06 University of Missouri Health Care physicians provided $47 million in uncompensated care.
Last year MU physicians admitted 20,411 patients, performed 17,913 surgeries and served patients in 580,308 outpatient visits and 39,366 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.
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 140 sites in 43 Missouri counties, MU's nationally recognized Missouri Telehealth Network provides better health care quality and access to rural patients.
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 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.
