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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.
We are UI Health

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

Upcoming Community Events

Mar 13 2026

St. Baldrick’s Head-Shaving Fundraising for Pediatric Cancer

Friday, 8:00 am–10:00 am America/Chicago

UI Health Eye & Ear Infirmary (EEI)

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

UI Health Spotlight

UIC Professor Serving as Head of Sports Sciences for U.S. Figure Skating

Dr. Lindsay Slater Hannigan of the UIC College of Applied Health Sciences was recently interviewed by Wired Magazine and the Chicago Tribune about her experience and expertise as head of U.S. Figure Skating, and about the science of Olympic figure skating.