UC medical centers had 290,000 emergency room visits last year.

UC participates in nurse-run clinics at Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles (UCLA), Glide Health Services in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district (UCSF) and at El Sol charter school in Santa Ana (UC Irvine). Read more.

UC San Francisco performed the world’s first fetal surgery. Read more.

Among first-year UC medical students, underrepresented minorities have risen to more than 24 percent of students this year, up from 14 percent in 2001 and topping rates at California’s private medical schools and the national average. Read more.

UC medical centers provided $491 million of charity care in the past year.

UC medical centers had 3.9 million outpatient visits in the past year. Read more.

UC has 12 Nobel laureates in medicine. Read more.

UC’s medical centers provide vital aid to UC’s medical and other health professional schools: $522 million this year in professional services and support of research and educational programs. Read more.

University of California nursing programs enroll approximately 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students. Read more.

UC medical centers are undertaking 78 projects to expand access to care, enhance quality, improve population health and contain costs through the Delivery System Reform Incentive Program, a federal pay-for-performance initiative. Read more.

From answering phones to assisting women giving birth, more than 6,000 volunteers lend their services to the UC Health system. Read more.

UC is a research powerhouse, receiving $2 billion a year from the National Institutes of Health, along with funding from other agencies, foundations and institutes. Read more.