University of Missouri Hospital
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| University Hospital University of Missouri Health Care |
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| Location | |
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| Place | Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, (United States of America) |
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| Care System | Tertiary |
| Hospital Type | General |
| Affiliated University | University of Missouri |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | Level I trauma center |
| Beds | 274 |
| History | |
| Founded | 16 September 1956 |
| Links | |
| Website | Homepage |
| See also | University of Missouri Health Care |
University University Hospital is located in Columbia, Missouri. University Hospital offers the only Level I trauma center and helicopter service in mid-Missouri, the most experienced group of minimally invasive surgeons in the Midwest and the only Burn Intensive Care Unit in mid-Missouri. It also offers an accredited Chest Pain Center cardiology program and a multidisciplinary digestive disease program. Physicians throughout the state refer many of their most complicated cases to this flagship hospital of University of Missouri Health Care.
University Hospital also contains the region’s only cochlear implant center, a diabetes center, an ophthalmology institute, a sleep disorders center and a SameDay Surgery Center that offers hundreds of different procedures in its fully equipped operating rooms. The Hospital operates helicopters based in Columbia, Osage Beach, Missouri, and LaMonte, Missouri.
