Improving patients' lives drives the innovation that makes University of Minnesota Medical Center one of the most respected academic medical centers in the nation. We balance responsiveness to patients’ needs with access to groundbreaking treatments and technology, delivering superior health outcomes. The result is care delivery excellence across a full spectrum of programs and services from delivery of thousands of babies each year to emergency care to organ transplant surgery. Our partnership with the University of Minnesota Medical School and University of Minnesota Physicians provides the platform to specialize in breakthrough treatments, surgical techniques, lifesaving therapies and to train tomorrow's physicians. Clinical trials advance our clinical services, bringing the very newest ideas in patient care.