University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The mission of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is straightforward: eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation and the world. The hospital was created in 1941 and accepted its first patient in…
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University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center. University of Rochester Medical Center was founded in 1921. George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, was the hospital’s first benefactor. In the early 1900s, Eastman agreed to fund a medical school with…
University of North Carolina Hospitals (Chapel Hill, N.C.). With 805 patient beds, the public UNC Hospitals is the anchor of UNC Health Care and dates back to 1952, when its N.C. Memorial Hospital opened its doors to patients. The parent…
Florida Hospital Orlando. Florida Hospital Orlando’s history dates back more than 100 years when it was a small, two-story farmhouse turned into a medical facility. Now, it is part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System and the more than 2,000-bed…
Christiana Care Health System (Wilmington, Del.). Christiana Care is a major system with two main hospital campuses. Its flagship hospital, Christiana Hospital in Newark, is the No. 1 hospital in the state, according to U.S. News & World Report. Christiana Hospital…
North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, N.Y.). The home of the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and one of the Katz Women’s Hospitals, North Shore University Hospital is a major component of the North Shore-LIJ Health System. The 806-bed hospital…
Emory University Hospital (Atlanta). The history of Emory University Hospital dates back to 1904, when its predecessor, Wesley Memorial Hospital, was chartered with 50 beds. The hospital was housed in a downtown Atlanta mansion that had been spared from destruction during…
Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center. Hackensack University Medical Center was founded in 1888 with 12 beds as Bergen County’s first hospital. Today, the 775-bed nonprofit, tertiary care, teaching and research hospital serves northern New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area.…
UC Davis Medical Center (Sacramento). UC Davis Medical Center is a 619-bed teaching hospital that serves a 65,000-square-mile area comprised of 33 counties and 6 million residents across Northern and Central California. The hospital maintains an annual budget of roughly…
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Established in 1955, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is situated on the four-acre UCLA campus in West Los Angeles, along with UCLA’s Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and Mattel Children’s Hospital. In 2008, RRUCLA…