The University of Kansas Health System
An academic medical center in Kansas City, Kansas, combining patient care, research and education, with institutes for heart care, transplantation and cancer treatment and a Level I trauma center.
The University of Kansas Health System is an integrated academic medical center headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas. Founded in 1906, it combines patient care, medical research and education, and describes itself as the region's premier academic medical center and a destination for complex care and diagnosis. Its physicians serve simultaneously as caregivers, researchers and educators, expanding medical knowledge and developing treatments alongside clinical practice.
The organisation operates specialised institutes in heart care, transplantation and cancer treatment, and runs a Level I Trauma Center, which it identifies as Kansas's only nationally verified Level I trauma centre. Technical and clinical work spans academic medicine, medical research, medical education, trauma care, heart care, transplantation, cancer treatment, and complex care and diagnosis.
Work at the health system is guided by stated core values of excellence, compassion, diversity, innovation, integrity and evidence-based decision-making, drawn from a founding vision to lead the nation in caring, healing, teaching and discovering. The institution has provided more than a century of patient care and medical innovation.