University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center is the flagship quaternary academic medical center of University Hospitals, which is one of the nation’s most funded research institutions, with $237 million in research funding and more than 3,500 clinical trials and studies underway. UH Cleveland Medical Center was named the No. 7 academic medical center in the U.S. and No. 15 in the world by Brand Finance for 2026. Its UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital ranks among the nation’s top 50 children’s hospitals in all 11 specialties, with seven in the top 25 and its neonatal care ranked 10th nationally. Meanwhile, the UH Seidman Cancer Center on the hospital’s main campus is part of the NCI-designated Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of only 57 such centers nationally. In December 2025, UH Cleveland Medical Center received its fifth consecutive Magnet designation, an achievement held by fewer than 2% of U.S. hospitals. In July 2025, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons awarded UH’s Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute its highest 3-star rating for coronary artery bypass grafting across five UH medical centers, placing the system in the top 20% of programs nationally for cardiac surgery quality. In April 2026, University Hospitals became the first health system in the U.S. to earn ISO 9001 certification at the corporate level, certifying every hospital and its headquarters. UH’s transplant program ranks 14th out of 257 adult kidney transplant programs and 16th out of 152 liver transplant programs nationally, with liver recipients achieving a 98% one-year survival rate. UH’s Neurological Institute recently became just the second in the nation to use NeuroOne’s OneRF system, performing 44 ablations over two days to treat a complex epilepsy case.
